Happy Earth Day 2025!
We’ve compiled twenty things we can all do to make our fragile planet a little better.
From general mindset to taking action, there are a myriad of ways to help make Earth feel a bit more love. We’ve also included a comprehensive guide that offer resources that help you take action.
🧠 Mindset & Awareness
- Reconnect with Awe: Take a solo walk in nature and really notice it. Awe is a gateway drug to care.
- Learn One Local Endangered Species: Know it. Share it. Protect it.
- Rethink “Eco” as Joyful, Not Deprived: Sustainability isn’t scarcity. It’s elegance, balance, and beauty.
🌱 At Home
- Plant a Pollinator Garden (Even a Small One): Even a window box with lavender or milkweed helps bees and butterflies.
- Switch to Renewable Energy: If your utility offers it, opt in. If not, push for it.
- Compost Like a Pro: It’s easier than you think, and it saves methane-emitting waste from landfills.
🚯 Consumption
- Buy 10% Less of Everything: Seriously. Just 10%. From clothes to gadgets to groceries.
- Choose Beauty That Lasts: Avoid fast design and choose pieces that age well and tell a story.
- Support B-Corps and Regenerative Brands: Every dollar is a vote for the future.
🧺 Clothing & Fashion
- Wash Your Clothes in Cold Water: Saves energy and makes your clothes last longer.
- Try a No-New-Clothes Month: Reinvent your wardrobe with creativity, not consumption.
- Ditch Microplastics: Avoid synthetic fabrics when possible. They shed into the water stream every wash.
🐾 Animals & Wildlife
- Make Your Yard or Balcony Bird-Safe: Window decals, native plants, and water features go a long way.
- Say No to Lawn, Yes to Wild Spaces: Lawns are deserts for biodiversity. Let a patch go wild.
🍽️ Food & Water
- Try a Plant-Based Day Each Week: Eating lower on the food chain reduces emissions dramatically.
- Refuse Single-Use Water Bottles: A small act with a massive footprint if multiplied.
- Eat Ugly Produce: Helps reduce waste and supports smaller farms.
📢 Action & Advocacy
- Support Environmental Journalism: Subscribe. Share. Help amplify truth and beauty.
- Join a Local Clean-Up or Rewilding Project: See the impact of your hands on your local ecosystem.
- Talk About It: Earth Day shouldn’t be silent. Share what you’re doing and why. Your voice matters.
Below are a range of additional resources to help make your own Earth Day journey easier.
🌍 Earth Day Resource Guide
Tools, Books, and Beautiful Ideas for Everyday Earth-Loving
At Moss and Fog, we believe beauty and action can, and should, coexist.
So this Earth Day, we’ve curated a list of inspiring, helpful, and often overlooked resources to guide your journey toward a lighter, brighter footprint.
Whether you’re planting seeds, changing habits, or looking for beautifully designed ways to learn and share, these are for you.
Learn Something Beautiful
🌀 Project Drawdown
The world’s most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming.
A hopeful, data-driven breakdown of the top solutions for climate change, all based on what we already have.
📖 All We Can Save
Truth, courage, and solutions from women climate leaders.
A stunning anthology of essays and poetry that feels like a balm and a spark.
📊 Our World in Data – Environment
Visual storytelling meets climate science.
→ ourworldindata.org/environment
Endlessly scrollable insights into carbon, energy, deforestation, and more.
🎥 TED Countdown
Ideas worth acting on.
Watch brilliant minds share bold visions for the climate future.
Tools for Everyday Living
🌍 Earth Hero App
Personalized climate action in your pocket.
Tracks your impact and helps you form sustainable habits, one action at a time.
🌸 iNaturalist
Rediscover the wild right outside your door.
Snap a photo, learn a species. Be part of a global biodiversity movement.
👕 Good On You
How ethical is your favorite brand?
A trusted guide to fashion’s true impact, and a push toward better choices.
🚰 Refill App
Find free water refills, skip the plastic.
Stay hydrated without the single-use bottle guilt.
🥕 Too Good To Go
Save surplus food and reduce waste near you.
A smart, feel-good app to rescue meals from bakeries, cafés, and restaurants.
️ Act with Impact
📗 Climate Action Handbook (Free Download)
A gorgeous, print-worthy guide to carbon-friendly living, from energy to finance to food.
🌲 One Tree Planted
Because a single tree can make a forest of difference.
Plant trees for birthdays, events, or just because.
⚖️ Earth Justice
The Earth needs a good lawyer.
Support legal battles that protect our air, water, land, and future.
🌿 Canopy Planet
Preserving ancient and endangered forests through design partnerships.
Perfect for creatives looking to source more responsibly.
📘 The Carbon Almanac
It’s not too late, and this proves it.
Infographics, printable posters, and truth-powered materials for climate literacy.
