Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min · 8 segments
Organization: Climate Justice Texas Guest: Ariana Akbari - Executive Director For more information: https://www.climatejusticetexas.org/
Yeah, so one of our big initiatives is our Everywhere, Everyday Earth Day initiative.
We're originally aiming for universities, but we may open that up to also like high schools, maybe schools.
middle and elementary schools and hold a sort of competition for designing original Earth Day posters.
And we got this concept because I don't know if you know, a lot of people don't, but the first Earth Day posters were designed by an artist named Robert Rauschenberg, who's actually from Port Arthur.
A lot of the original Earth Day posters, they spoke to the environment, the literal environment.
They featured a lot of symbolism, like bald eagles or alligators, even native to our region.
So we want people to start to have a vision of like, oh, what does Earth Day actually mean beyond... like a very large corporation telling us to like go green, right? So we're going to do something like that to encourage people to better encounter their environments.
We are also doing a postcard project where people anywhere in the world can mail us.
They can mail us a postcard and write about what they see in their direct environment.
Yeah, so one of our big initiatives is our Everywhere, Everyday Earth Day initiative.
We're originally aiming for universities, but we may open that up to also like high schools, maybe schools.
middle and elementary schools and hold a sort of competition for designing original Earth Day posters.
And we got this concept because I don't know if you know, a lot of people don't, but the first Earth Day posters were designed by an artist named Robert Rauschenberg, who's actually from Port Arthur.
A lot of the original Earth Day posters, they spoke to the environment, the literal environment.
They featured a lot of symbolism, like bald eagles or alligators, even native to our region.
So we want people to start to have a vision of like, oh, what does Earth Day actually mean beyond... like a very large corporation telling us to like go green, right? So we're going to do something like that to encourage people to better encounter their environments.
We are also doing a postcard project where people anywhere in the world can mail us.
They can mail us a postcard and write about what they see in their direct environment.
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