Earth Day 2026
22 April 2026 - 22 April 2026
Region(s): Nationwide
Type(s): promotion
The theme of this year's Earth Day is Our Power, Our Planet – a rallying cry for people everywhere to reclaim their voice, their rights, and their future.
Everyone around the globe is invited to unite behind renewable energy, and to triple the global generation of clean electricity by 2030. How? By joining in Earth Action Day, encouraging all to take action – educate, advocate, and mobilize. Pledge an Earth Action on social media. Attend, plan and/or register a local event. Integrate Earth Day lessons into your curricula. Donate to support Earth Days' efforts.
There are resources (including quizzes, fact sheets, articles and more) to help you take action this Earth Day, 22 April and every day.
For more information see www.earthday.org/earth-day-2026.
On social media follow the hashtags: #OurPowerOurPlanet #EarthActionDay.
Related content
Check out the Citizen Science project Global earth challenge and see the links at the bottom for further helpful resources.
Explore our resources on renewable energy and find other Hub resources exploring some of the issues associated with ongoing fossil fuel use in the article Future fuels – introduction.
Driving us into the future is an article on electric cars from Connected which comes with additional teacher support material. Look at the Electric car history timeline and the REV it UP Participatory Science Platform (PSP) project, where students built an electric vehicle.
Explore the environmental impacts in terms of CO of standard vehicles vs electric vehicles in The environmental footprint of electric versus fossil cars.
Drive it Down! – a context for learning provides pedagogical suggestions and links to the New Zealand Curriculum. It includes the interactive Drive it Down! – the carbon cycle and climate change, which curates resources covering climate change, greenhouse gases, the carbon cycle and climate action.
We have lots of resources on the science of climate change – we recommend starting with Climate change resources – planning pathways. It groups Hub resources into key science and teaching concepts such as evidence and models and sea-level rise.
Visit Tāhūrangi to see their collection of resources and stories that support both Earth Day and education for sustainability throughout the school year