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The Penguins for Earth Pledge aims to quantify the collective impact of earth friendly actions that our community can take to protect our planet. The pledge lists individual actions a person may take to conserve water, reduce their carbon footprint and advocate for the planet's help.
We have included the estimated impacts a person performing these actions in a day (water conservation) or year (carbon footprint reduction) would have on their average footprint to help you assess your personal impact.
Please select as many actions you wish to pledge to perform within the following year. We will present our communities potential collective impact during this year's Earth Day programming.
Check out the prize winning short film to be inspired!
For years the dominant story in Washington D.C. has been that a tweak to our recycling system here or there will fix the plastics crisis. As the power of that old story fades, real solutions are emerging in their place. Our movement has just introduced a comprehensive bill to tackle the plastic pollution crisis in Congress and we need your help to move it forward!
Together with our #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement partners, we’ve developed comprehensive legislation regulating plastics from the moment oil and gas leaves the wellhead, to stopping the dumping of our waste on Global South countries. The bill would phase out throwaway plastics made from fossil fuels, hold the plastic industry responsible for its waste, and pause construction on any new plastic-making plants.
Can you urge your member of Congress to co-sponsor the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act?
More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans every year, drowning wildlife and wrecking ecosystems. The cost to human health has also been enormous, especially in low-income communities and communities of color where the majority of plastic-making facilities and plastic-burning incinerators are located.
We know that a bill like this will face fierce resistance from industry lobbyists in the months ahead, that’s why we need to build support for the legislation by gathering as many bill co-sponsors as possible.
Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act today!
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According to Shopping for Plastic,1 Greenpeace’s second investigative ranking of 20 U.S. grocery retailers — every single major supermarket has been given a failing grade in reducing its plastic pollution.
This lack of progress by supermarkets during a year when the plastic industry not only exploited COVID-19 to sell more single-use plastic, but retailers also saw a rise in people shopping at their stores due to “stay at home orders'' and restaurants closing due to safety precautions is particularly aggravating.
It’s frustrating because shoppers often have no choice but to buy the default: plastic-wrapped products — even foods with a natural peel, like a banana are sold in plastic packaging. And every piece of plastic that comes through a grocery store ends up polluting our environment, harming our health, accelerating climate change, and impacting communities on the frontlines of this crisis.
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