Earth Day
a sustainable future for Black Communities
Many petrochemical refineries, fossil fuel incinerators, and unsafe pipelines are concentrated in Black communities. When Black people have a more sustainable future, it creates a cleaner, healthier community for all.
Earth Day 2025 represents Our Power, Our Planet. We will highlight renewable energy needs, mobilize people, narratives, and solutions, allowing communities to power clean energy solutions, and advocate against polluters with false solutions.
Centering sustainable solutions means reducing pollution for Black communities, removing many of these environmental hazards we all face nationally. We have the answers, and it's our time to amplify how a sustainable future benefits Black people.
GET INVOLVED IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Take the pledge to complete at least one of our actions this Earth Month. By signing this pledge, you can fight to end our reliance on plastics in your community by taking the following actions.
Join the Discussion
Join us as we hear from the Director of "Free to Ride" on April 28 at 6 PM ET to understand ways to build local change as well as from environmental and climate justice pioneers who helped shape the movement we see today.
Screen "Free to Ride"
This film follows the story of a relentless grassroots coalition from across Dayton, Ohio who overcame a suburban contingent opposed to public transit, and the system of checks and balances that allowed justice and reason to prevail.
Transportation is indeed an environmental issue, and Free To Ride shows that change is possible, and underscores the power of local community organizing, legal strategy, and data justice to protect the civil rights of all.
Watch With Us
RSVP for NAACP's screening of "Free to Ride" on April 28 at 6 PM ET with the director of Free to Ride, which won a DC Independent Film Festival award for best documentary with our members.
We will bring together grassroots leaders, policy experts, and community advocates to spotlight the environmental challenges facing Black neighborhoods — and how we fight back.
Free to Ride: The Documentary
Take the Earth Day Quiz
This year, we partnered with EarthDay.org and helped create their first quiz on environmental and climate justice issues. Take the quiz and share it with others to see how much you know!
Make Polluters Pay
When floods destroy homes and wildfires burn communities, someone always pays. These natural disasters are happening more frequently and severely due to global warming, and global warming has gotten worse because of the overuse of fossil fuels.
The only question is whether everyday Americans or corporations that causing the crisis pay while pocketing trillions.
Earth Day Facts
Nonrenewable energy such as oil, gas, and coal powers much of the country still. Using these forms of fossil fuels can have dire impacts on the environment that cause water, air, and soil pollution.
82% of U.S. energy comes from fossil fuels, 8.7% from nuclear, and 8.8% from renewable sources. When we focus on clean energy, we have an opportunity to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
Apply for the Grant
The NAACP is launching its NAACP Climate in Color: Reframing our Future Short Film Grant! This exciting grant will allow a winning filmmaker to produce a short film addressing environmental climate justice issues impacting Black communities that highlights some innovation for the future.
Black innovators are building products with less plastic that are solar and wind powered, and clean water solutions. Earth Day is important to our communities because we have continuously demonstrated our vision for what clean air, water, and soil can look like for Black people.
- Abre Conner, Director, Center for Environmental and Climate Justice
Energy Saving Solutions For Your Community
Learn more about using energy-saving solutions to find out how to save more money on electrifying your home to rebate finders for commercial building products.
A Global Solution
There's a better alternative for fossil fuels that doesn't help billionaires pollute our communities.
By 2035, energy needs in countries such as the U.S. can be met by renewable sources, if used every day in a year, so we are joining the call with our partners at Earthday.org for renewable energy generation, globally, to be tripled by 2030.