On this 50th Earth Day, We Are Using The Internet To Change The World
50 years ago when the first Earth Day happened, the networks that would later form the Internet were only beginning.
20 years later, when Earth Day 1990 turned the celebration into a global event, the World-Wide Web existed only as a single website in Switzerland.
Today, the Internet is our lifeline. In a world locked down by coronavirus, the Internet is how we connect. It is how we communicate, collaborate, and create together. It is how we work and how we play. And on this Earth Day 2020, we will use the Internet to celebrate the 50th anniversary.
Each and every day, we are using the Internet to respond to climate change and other environmental issues:
- Scientists are collaborating and sharing their knowledge. They are finding new solutions and creating new programs.
- Projects are crowdsourcing vast amounts of data from regular people around the world (ex. Earth Challenge 2020)
- We are sharing ideas and learning from each other.
- Policy makers are learning what works in other regions.
- We are avoiding unnecessary travel and reducing our carbon footprint.
- Activists are joining in global movements.
- We are seeing that what affects someone in one part of the world may affect us Continue reading
