fun earth day activities for work

how to celebrate earth day with your remote team

This article will feature 20+ ideas, including team-building activities, trivia, icebreakers, and more, to help your teams learn and connect this Earth Day!

Earth Day is an opportunity to examine our environmental impact and promote global sustainability. As a workplace, we have a corporate responsibility to our teams and the wider community to provide learning opportunities to simplify this mission. We can encourage our teams to be more aware of their environmental footprint on a personal and professional level.

Let’s use our platforms and resources to better equip our team with the right tools, knowledge, and encouragement, and we can all become better stewards of the planet. Keep reading to find 20+ educational, fun, and engaging corporate event ideas to inspire your teams, including team building sessions, interactive workshops, icebreakers, and trivia.

Sustainability And Ecological Footprint Quiz

Before you dive head-first into sustainability tips and tricks, you should gauge your team’s current level of knowledge and understanding and test their environmental knowledge!

Over at the Earth Day website, you can find ready-made quizzes on categories such as climate change, environmental literacy, sustainable fashion, plastic pollution, and other important topics. Knowledge is power, so ask your teams to collaborate and work to find the answers together!
Once you have an established understanding of sustainability, encourage your team to use the ecological footprint calculator - this is a metric that measures your impact and expresses the amount of land needed to sustain your lifestyle. Your team will see how their food, transport, housing, and energy choices impact the size of their ecological footprint, and can brainstorm ways to reduce it.

2. interactive sustainability classes for earth day

Identifying what’s important to your team can help guide your best course of action in terms of sustainability activities. What is your team passionate about? What skills do they need to make a daily difference? An interactive sustainability workshop can help your teams understand a topic better and provide useful tips and tricks to put their mission into action. After all, the more we know, the more equipped we are to make a difference.

Zero Waste Cooking: Sustainability can be hard, but choosing a daily activity like food consumption is a great place to start your journey. Between 30-40% in the USA goes to waste annually, and up to 43% of that comes from household food waste, so what can you do about it?
A Zero Waste Cooking presentation will give your teams the knowledge to reduce waste through five major categories: stock-taking, planning, shopping, cooking and preserving. Then, a Zero-Waste chef will teach your team how to use kitchen staples, leftovers and often discarded food items to make delicious meals and snacks.

3. Interactive Sustainability Workshops for earth day

Use Earth Day as an opportunity to show your teams all the different ways to approach sustainability, and that it does not have to be intimidating through our interactive sustainability workshops.

Sustainability Bucket List: In this interactive workshop, your team will be encouraged to work together to find solutions to areas in their life that could be more eco-friendly or sustainable. They will identify gaps in their lifestyle, and find practical ways to make a difference including learning how to garden, ditching single-use plastic, or investing in a zero-waste beauty routine.

Sustainability Starter Program: We strongly believe your home is the best place to start your sustainability journey. Participants will receive a ‘starter kit’ and find practical swaps and solutions to reduce their household waste and support the planet. Class Options: Sustainable Lifestyle Kit + Workshop or Sustainable Kitchen Starter Kit + Cooking Demo.
Sustainability Medley: This interactive workshop will demonstrate the connection between Zero Waste Cooking and Regenerative Gardening. Your team will learn how to reduce their household waste and be inspired to learn about growing their own herbs or food and helping pollinators in whatever way they can, ie. choosing native and/or pollinator-friendly plants, avoiding pesticides while carrying out lawn care, starting a pollinator garden, etc.

4. gardening classes for earth day

Gardening is a great hands-on experience that comes with a lot of benefits. The practice of gardening can be a great form of mindfulness, it can teach us important skills like patience and perseverance and can be incredibly rewarding.

Herb Gardening: Introduce your team to gardening through a super accessible class. They will learn how to plant seeds and grow their own herbs indoors and enjoy the benefits of delicious and nutritious herbs.
Tea Tasting & Tea Gardening: Send your team an organic loose-leaf tea sampler kit to enjoy a unique tea tasting. Then, invite them to get their hands dirty and build a mini tea garden to grow herbs and get creative while making their own unique tea blends.
Pollinator Gardening: Pollinators, like birds, bees, and butterflies, are the very essence of our food ecosystem, as up to 80% of food crops rely on pollination to some degree. This class will teach your team how to create a pollinator haven - knowing how to choose pollinator-friendly plants, an eco-friendly gardening technique called soil blocking, and how to attract pollinators.

Pro Tip: We recommend you choose a gardening class that suits your team and their lifestyles. If any of your team members live in urban settings and/or have limited garden space, herb gardening may be more accessible since it’s suitable for a small windowsill and does not require any outdoor space.

5. happy hour earth day experience

Earth Day is an opportunity to ‘vote with your dollar’. We can choose to support companies that are making a difference and helping the planet while showing your team a unique team building experience.

Mead Tasting: You can invite your team to a unique ‘happy hour’ through a mead, or honey wine tasting session. Groennfell & Havoc are a triple bottom corporation, a 100% renewably-powered operation, and they are B-certified, which is only awarded to businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.

6. earth day icebreakers and virtual games

Virtual games are an easy, low-effort way to help your teams connect, and our Earth Day games are as fun as they are educational. These are the perfect addition to any virtual team building session, meeting around Earth Day, or a way to break up large corporate events.

Virtual Scavenger Hunt: In this fast-paced game and energizing team, participants will race against the clock and one another to find as many sustainable items in their homes. This fun game is broken into categories, like ‘on the go’ where your team has to find a reusable shopping bag, a reusable coffee mug or water bottle, or even a reusable sandwich bag.
Virtual Team Trivia: Test participants’ knowledge and find out how well-versed they are on sustainability topics! This fun game will include topics like food waste, sustainable alternatives like eco-friendly cleaning and household products, and recyclable products and packaging.
Virtual Team Bingo: In this quick and easy game, your team will work together to find out who among them is the most sustainable! This free bingo card includes 25 eco-friendly practices, including eating plant-based, driving an electric car, and buying loose produce, which will help identify all the things your team may already be doing without noticing they are supporting the planet.

The American anthropologist Margaret Mead once said: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.’ This Earth Day, we can work together and help our teams be more informed and aware of their footprint on this planet and help them make better choices that will lessen our impact on the planet.

ABOUT KRAFTYLAB

KraftyLab is a leading corporate event provider for remote teams across the US and Canada. Our fun team building experiences include activities and games which provide opportunities for connection and engagement wherever your employees may be!