Earth Days 2020

Making Every Day Earth Day (MEDED)



Making Every Day Earth Day (MEDED) semimonthly newsletters 2020-21

To offer guidance in these desparing times, PSR Iowa started a twice-monthly series of newletters in August 2020 as guidance to the small and large ways we can all help to make every day Earth Day for everyone. Each newsletter focuses on selected interrelated pertinent topics wtih informational and educational material for ways to take action as an alternative to despair.

Here is the PSR Iowa MEDED archive:


April 15, 2021 MEDED
    Green Power of Innovation and Cooperation
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April 1, 2021 MEDED
    Normalizing Renewable
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March 15, 2021 MEDED
    Standing on a Precipice: Change Everything
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March 1, 2021 MEDED
    Nuclear Energy: A Dangerous Distraction
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February 15, 2021 MEDED
    Opportunity Costs Miltarism and Nuclear Weapons
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February 2, 2021 MEDED
    Militarism and Nuclear Weapons
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January 15, 2021 MEDED
    MLK Day Edition: Building the Beloved Community
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January 1, 2021 MEDED
    Militarism, Ecology & Health
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December 15, 2020 MEDED
    Environmentalism & Popular Culture
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December 1, 2020 MEDED
    Trees & the Web of Life
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November 15, 2020 MEDED
    Water Protectors
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November 1, 2020 MEDED
    Water, Pollution and the Web of Life
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October 15, 2020 MEDED
    Water Scarcity
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October 1, 2020 MEDED
    Food & Water
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September 15, 2020 MEDED
    Food & Climate Change - Farmers & Eaters
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September 1, 2020 MEDED
    Food & Climate Change
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August 15, 2020 MEDED
    Environmental Justice, COVID-19 & Climate Change
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August 1, 2020 MEDED
    COVID-19 & Climate Change
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Rebooting Earth Day 2020

Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic the April 25, 2020 Earth Day event at the Coralville Marriott was cancelled. We have pivoted to expanded program thinking 2020 to Make Every Day Earth Day.

Making Sense during the COVID-19 pandemic

While protecting the biosphere is important, the human social and political environment must be protected, sustained, and respected as well before Earth Day can truly become every day for everyone.

Besides the pandemic, 2020 has brought several simulataneous unprecedented crises. Certainly, climate change is evermore blatant with record catastrophic forest fires, wind storms, heat, flooding, drought, and a record hurricaine season; however, currently worsening political, economic, and social unrest in the U.S. and globally magnify the everpresent spectre of instant nuclear annihilation.

Recall that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock, for the first time since 1947 had already been set in early 2020 at Seconds rather than Minutes before midnight. It is past time for every individual to begin working steadily in their own and collective new ways to make every day Earth Day.

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