Hurricane Emergency Relief and Environmental Restoration Resources
When natural disasters strike, we want to unify and give, but it can be difficult to know where to give your support in order to have as much positive impact on the ground as possible. After the destruction of hurricanes Helene and Milton, communities across the Southeastern United States are in desperate need of emergency […]
A Warming Climate Means More Hunger: The Overlap of Food Security and Our Environment
Today, roughly 821 million people worldwide are considered undernourished, according to a 2023 report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. This lack of nourishment has a wide array of consequences, including stunting growth (currently impact 151 million children under five), leading to iron deficiency in millions of women and young girls, and obesity, […]
Public Parks and Urban Green Spaces: A History of Accessibility
To really understand the origin of public parks in America, we’re going to have to look back to Victorian era England (1837 – 1901) and what was considered at the time to be a moral duty of the wealthy to educate and positively influence the working class. By spending time in what was considered a […]
Essential Facts About Sustainable Water Infrastructure—And How It Impacts You!
America’s water infrastructure is massive, old, and in major need of overhaul. Depending on where you live in the country, you may be more aware of this than others. Over the past 50 years, U.S. federal spending on water infrastructure has decreased by more than 85%, and that lack of investment shows. From crumbling concrete […]
Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, and the Recycling Myth That’s Destroying Our Planet
If wishes were fishes, they’d be swimming in plastic. Since 1970, the amount of plastic humans have created and disposed of has skyrocketed. Now we’re finding plastics and plastic particles on our beaches, atop mountains, in our water, and now in our bodies. Given the number of new plastics created every year (approximately 380 million […]
Celebrating Diversity in the Deep Sea
“The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes.” ― Adam Nicolson Our global oceans are a massive resource; from maintaining global temperatures and weather patterns to providing critical food and mineral resources, we simply could not live without them. And yet, in total, we’ve managed to explore and map less than 20% […]
PRIDE In Our Oceans: The Life and Career of Rachel Carson
📸 Source Credit: Rachel Carson Council Rachel Carson is credited as one of the earliest founders of modern environmentalism. With a background in marine science and zoology from John Hopkins University, Carson was hired by the US Bureau of Fisheries in 1936 (only the second woman to work there) where she developed public-facing educational materials […]
It’s Time to Recognize Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the Environmental Movement
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, and before we jump into this article recognizing some of the incredible environmental nonprofits that are Asian-Pacific led and/or focused, we first need to acknowledge the elephant in the room. For far too long, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders have been ignored or […]
EarthShare x Ma Earth: Why DAFs Need to MOVE
EarthShare CEO Brad Leibov sat down with Matthew Monahan from Ma Earth to discuss Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) and the urgent need for DAF account holders to move their money on a regular basis for it to have a positive influence on the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPQks936dZk What Is a Donor Advised Fund? Even though the Donor […]
Introducing The 30×30 Project
In Spring 2023, EarthShare received the Mosaic Infrastructure Grant to produce an educational course all about the 30×30 target. Our goal: to broaden 30×30 beyond the expert environmentalist silo where it’s most commonly understood, and break it down into a solution-oriented, user-engaging format that is accessible to everyone—especially those who have never heard of 30×30 […]