Day #5: Community Advocacy 
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About this Act
Welcome to day #5 of the 2024 Billion Acts Earth Month Campaign! You can visit the main campaign page here!
Some of the most successful examples of long-term changes towards environmental practices are brought about on a grassroots level - including youth-led initiatives.
Take Action!
Support a global petition or advocacy campaign such as the Global Plastics Treaty.
Education:
- Why Are Community-Led Environmental Campaigns So Effective?
- 44 Ways to Make Your School or Classroom More Green
- Young Climate Activists Demand Action and Inspire Hope
- Communities have long embedded the importance of certain environmental practices within their values, laws, and codes. Today, we even have international documents such as the Stockholm Declaration that recognize the universal right to a healthy environment.
2019 Billion Acts Awardee Our Children’s Trust is a non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. Their most famous case began with a Northwest PeaceJammer Kelsey Juliana and her case Juliana v. United States. The case argued that through the government's affirmative actions that cause climate change, it has violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property.
Learn more about Juliana v. Gov and Take action with Youth v.Gov.’s action toolkit, wall of support, and free curricula
Let us know how you joined today's call-to-action by clicking on "Share and Earn Peace Points" on the right side of the screen. We also welcome you to add your own Earth month events and calls-to-action to the campaign page as well. We're on a mission to reach 1,000 acts by April 22nd!
Focus Areas:
Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer alone.
The Dalai Lama