Earth Day reading: The Hidden Life of Trees

Looking for a book to read? Embrace Earth Day 2022 by reading a New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall street journal bestseller.

11th Annual “I Love My Park” Day

Join Parks & Trails New York – and thousands of volunteers across the state – on Saturday, May 7 in celebrating and enhancing New York’s parks and public lands. Sign up for an I Love My Park Day event to clean up parks and shorelines, plant trees and gardens, restore trails and wildlife habitat, remove invasive species, and more.

With 130+ events scheduled across the state, it’s easy to find one near you!

Averting Climate Catastrophe: No New Arms Race!

Every year on April 22nd, people celebrate and honor Earth Day through neighborhood clean-ups, community festivals, and projects to educate the public about the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Veterans For Peace has honored Earth Day by discussing how militarism impacts the environment. We hope to spread the message about the environmental costs of war, a topic that isn’t often discussed when leaders debate climate change and enact environmental policies. Instead of working for a cleaner, cooler future, our tax dollars are being spent on human death and environmental destruction.

Following an introductory presentation showing the links between militarism and climate change, a panel of experts will discuss how to proceed in uniting the peace and climate movements to avoid increasing militarism and worsening the climate crisis.

Moderator: Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK

Panelists:
• Ann Wright, author, activist, retired U.S. Army Colonel and U.S. State Department official
• Dr. David Vine, Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University and author of The United States of War
• Erik Edstrom, Afghanistan war veteran and author of UN-AMERICAN: A soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War

Presented by the Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis & Militarism Project: CCMP warns that an arms race resulting from the invasion of Ukraine will hinder efforts of major polluting countries to lower their CO2 emissions and will doom any meaningful international agreements later this year at COP27. In other words, we are no longer “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe,” we are running.