Celebrated every year on April 22, it all started as a revolutionary movement in the year 1970. Founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson, it was initially celebrated in the United States to create awareness around living organisms and the environment. It also focussed on the awareness and effects of pollution on public health. Since 1990, the movement was taken up at a global level commemorating Earth day every year.
“Change starts at home.” Engaging and encouraging your employees to use the energy sources judicially helps save costs. Creating products with mindfulness about environmental footprints reflects your company’s values. This, in turn, helps in creating a positive brand image. Different categories of consumers are likely to pay higher prices for environmentally sustainable products.
Not only consumers, but today’s employees too, prioritise working with companies that are flexible, employee focussed, and environmentally and socially responsible.
To begin, the simplest way is to go paperless. Other options include making the most of the natural light, reducing plastic waste by installing water dispensers for employees to refill their water bottles, and placing trash bins with clear segregation of recyclable and non-recyclable waste.
Based on the same fundamentals, you can organise earth day activities in the office to commemorate and engage your staff.
Gift a small desk plant to the employees. Share the tips to manage and nurture it while encouraging them to go green with plants at work and home. Not only does this help in purifying the surrounding air quality, but it also alleviates your mood and reduces stress.
A small workshop can help your employees learn the tips to maintain and propagate these plants as they grow. Knowledge about the plants’ water and sunlight requirements will help them choose the right plant as per the placement.
Organise an open quiz that will provide a chance for the employees to flaunt their knowledge about the environment. Healthy competition is not just fun for the participants but helps the audience learn about sustainable solutions and facts. Adding a theme of world earth day will add more fun to the activity.
This can also be taken up as a good team-building activity. The employees are divided into small groups. These groups will have to come up with innovative earth day decoration ideas with the use of non-usable/waste objects.
Creativity, teamwork, sustainability, eco-friendly lookout, everything can be focussed through a single activity.
You can organise an outdoor activity that can be great fun and a good break from the routine. These activities can include plating a tree, visiting a compost plant, collectively cleaning and beautifying an area, and so on.
Having a fundraiser activity to support an organisation or a charity can be a great way to commemorate Earth day 2023. As this can be done as a collective activity, team bonding and coordination activities will help spread the environment sustainability message effectively while supporting a cause.
A very promising and fun way of raising funds is by organising a stall sale event where the teams can perform sales of their own products like baked items, DIY decorations, etc., to raise funds.
A contest can be organised based on the Earth day theme based on reducing waste in the office. The teams can come up with plenty of creative ideas to ensure that they spend the day with minimum wastage. The lighter the trash can, the better the waste management. This can just be the beginning of adopting an environmentally friendly way of working.
You would be surprised to know that even the clutter in your email inbox can contribute to a worsened carbon footprint. An activity can be organised on Earth day to encourage people to declutter their inboxes by deleting old emails or unsubscribing from unwanted newsletters and promotional activities. This will lead to more space on serves while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Earth day celebrations are a great idea to bring your team together and create awareness about environmental sustainability. However, these sustainable activities can just be the start of making your organisation an eco-friendly one. Sticking to the agenda throughout the year will reap the benefits that might result in more than your expectation.
The activities listed above can help you kick-start the long-term initiative of going green. You can be more creative and outgoing when it comes to Earth day activities. Share your ideas on the activities that can be conducted this Earth day in the comment box below.
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