18 Activities to Celebrate Earth Day Virtually at Work

It’s time to take better care of your work environment! And no, we don’t just mean your desk at home. You can move to a different room, work from a cafe, or visit a coworking space, but there’s one location you can’t change for a new model – our planet! And what better time to focus on the environment than on Earth Day?

If your company works remotely, it’s important to make use of all the team-building opportunities that pop up during the year! Earth Day is a great moment to focus on shared values, boost your team’s communication skills and have a bit of fun together. Don’t worry about the details just yet, we have plenty of ideas and tips to help you get the most out of this event! And if organising Virtual Earth Day activities by yourself is too much of a hassle, turn to the services of a remote team building company like Tagvenue Virtual!

What is Earth Day?

Earth Day is held on the 22nd of April every year. It started in 1970 in the US and grew globally over time. Nowadays, over 190 countries participate in this annual event! The purpose of Earth Day is to protect the environment, educate people on living in a more sustainable way, and celebrate the movement’s achievements.

Why is it important to celebrate Earth Day at work?

Small, individual action is an important part of environmental protection. Honouring Earth Day at work allows you to raise awareness among your employees and help them make positive changes in their professional, and personal lives. After all, it’s our duty to keep the planet in good condition!

Additionally, acknowledging this important event can be a great way to connect with your employees’ values. According to the APA, as well as the British Office for National Statistics, the majority of adults believe protecting the planet and fighting against climate change is a priority. It’s quite likely that many of your employees care about the environment. Showing them that you share their values can boost engagement in your remote team!

On top of that, Earth Day is yet another fantastic opportunity to let your employees bond, share experiences, and get to know each other better. It would be a pity to miss out on that! Keep reading to find our brilliant virtual Earth Day activities and plan a celebration at your remote workplace!

Hosted Virtual Earth Day Activities

If you want to celebrate Earth Day without the hassle of preparing all the activities yourself, consider booking a hosted virtual event. Our remote team building activities raise awareness about our planet in a fun and engaging way. Pair them with taking action for the environment, such as donating to a non-profit organisation, to really make a difference this 22nd of April.

1. Virtual Earth Day Trivia

• Pricing: from £16/$19 per person
• Group size: 6-400
• Duration: 30-60 minutes

Challenge your team to a few rounds of trivia and find out how much they know about our planet and each other! Virtual Earth Day Trivia is hosted by a professional and cheerful emcee who’ll make sure everyone is having a great time. You can promote eco-consciousness while also helping the team bond! It’s like watering two plants with one hose!

2. Corporate Sustainability Seminar

If you want to educate your employees and improve your company’s sustainability efforts, this Corporate Sustainability Seminar is for you! It’s the perfect way to celebrate Earth Day in an insightful way and make sure your care for the environment carries on into the future!

3. The Climate Change Challenge

• Pricing: from £375/$433
• Group size: 5-500
• Duration: 75-90 minutes

On Earth Day, your colleagues can become eco-heroes! Only teamwork can save the planet during the daunting Climate Change Challenge. You will travel around the world, solve puzzles and fight the monsters of global warming. This virtual team building activity is a great way to address your sustainability goals in a fun, recreational way and build trust between colleagues.

4. Around the World 

• Pricing: from £16/$22 per person
• Group size: 8-500
• Duration: 60 minutes

If you need a good icebreaker for your virtual Earth Day, look no further! Around the World is a team building game that combines a lighthearted atmosphere with a pinch of rivalry. Visit 7 locations all around the world, test your employees’ knowledge of various places and collaborate with your teammates. You can’t fully appreciate our planet unless you know something about all of its corners!

5. Amazing Race Virtual Tour

• Pricing: from £21/$30
• Group size: 20-300
• Duration: 90 minutes

Explore the world from your home office! This virtual tour is an opportunity to travel to different locations on Earth with your colleagues and look for clues and information to solve puzzles. You can craft your own Amazing Race itinerary to make it fit your Earth Day objectives!

6. Power Source

• Pricing: £469/$649
• Group size: 5-500
• Duration: 90-120 minutes

In this game, you can encourage your employees to take better care of the environment by showing them a post-apocalyptic future they’d much rather avoid! Power Source is an online escape room experience set in a world with limited resources and just one generator. Your team will need to work together and put their communication skills and workplace relationships to the test.

7. Italian Favourites Cooking Class

• Pricing: from £29/$41 per person
• Group size: 10-1000
• Duration:  120 minutes

We are all guilty of being lazy with our meals sometimes, but cooking from scratch is much better for the environment! After the Italian Favourites Cooking Class, your remote team will be equipped with the skills to prepare their own delicious meals after work. Mother Earth will be better off with less takeout and ready-made meals in plastic packages! Additionally, cooking together is a great way for colleagues to bond in a laid-back environment, even when it’s all online!

8. Seasonal Wine Tasting

• Pricing: £55 per person
• Group size: 6-100
• Duration: 90 minutes

Say thank you to our planet for giving us all these delicious grapes that are perfect for producing wine. The Seasonal Wine Tasting is an ideal after-work activity for Earth Day, allowing your employees to enjoy the gifts of nature in their most delicious form. To add value to the experience, you can ask your colleagues to research sustainable wineries in their area. Now, they’ll know where to turn to be both boozy and eco-friendly!

Virtual Earth Day Activities to Support the Movement

Earth Day is first and foremost about protecting the planet, which is why we recommend you and your employees to take action! There are many ways to give back to the environment virtually, from educating yourselves to putting money towards a good cause. With these virtual activities, you’ll be able to contribute to the environmental movement, boost morale, and have a good time!

9. Learn to Live Zero Waste

Going zero waste is a big challenge, but it’s nothing you and your team can’t do! You can organise a zero waste lifestyle workshop with a professional or make it a peer-powered learning session. Ask your colleagues to research ways you can limit waste. It can include sustainable recipes, fashion, and habits. Everyone can share their favourite tricks, reusable products, and insights on what does and doesn’t work for them! 

10. Host an Upcycling Workshop

Upcycling is the practice of giving new life to products that are no longer used. This can be old clothes, furniture, toys, or anything else you can work with! You can simply alter some pieces or even cut them up and create something completely new, like making a bag from old jeans. To organise an online upcycling session at work, survey your employees to find out the most common unused items they own and send them DIY instructions beforehand. It’s about to be a team building exercise filled with creativity and new beginnings!

11. Reduce Your Work From Home Energy Consumption

Your remote team might not be creating a lot of pollution with their commute, but working from home can make your electricity usage practically skyrocket. For Earth Day, organise a workshop on creating a more sustainable home office! 

12. Adopt A Virtual Office Animal

Symbolic adoptions, especially of endangered species, are a great way to contribute to preserving the precious wildlife. To make sure your employees feel engaged in the project, you can create a survey and allow them to democratically pick a species to support! This virtual Earth Day activity will keep up everyone’s good spirits for a long time to come. Your employees can name the animal and treat it like an online team mascot!

13. Send Out Eco-Friendly Gift Hampers

Giving is a great way to show appreciation to your employees! Furthermore, it can be a great way to onboard any new colleagues that have joined the team around Earth Day. If gift hampers sound a bit too materialistic to be a sustainable activity, just hear us out! The goal is to include reusable, eco-friendly items in the bag. Some great ideas include:

• Books on sustainable living and protecting the environment
• Seeds
• Reusable cotton pads
• Reusable straws
• Organic snacks, tea, and coffee
• Natural cosmetics and cleaning products

Fun and Free Virtual Earth Day Activities

Looking for some light-hearted Earth Day activities to hold at work that won’t cost you a single penny? We’ve got you covered! From contests to bring in a bit of eco-friendly competition to virtual scavenger hunts, you definitely won’t be stuck on ideas!

14. Do a Greenest Workspace Competition

This activity is simple: everyone takes a picture of their desk and sends it in through e-mail or a dedicated channel on your messaging platform! The person with the most plants (and other eco-friendly elements!) wins. You can also make a compilation of the best setups and share it with the entire company. It’s time to show off your well-nurtured succulents, colourful reusable straws, and nature views!

15. Host a Sustainable Scavenger Hunt

There’s nothing better than a good old virtual scavenger hunt, right? For a touch of competitive fun, give your employees a list of eco-friendly products to find at home. The rules are simple: they’ll hunt for vegan snacks, reusable items and everything in between, take photos, and submit them to whoever’s in charge of the game! If you want to include a prize for the winner, think something Earth Day-themed, like a course on recycling or a voucher to a sustainable store!

16. Go on an Online Tour in Nature

You might not be able to meet up for a hike, but the team can still see some of nature’s biggest wonders together! You can visit Yellowstone National Park, explore the Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough, or go practically anywhere you wish with Google Earth. Virtual tours are a fun way to celebrate Earth Day while learning more about some famous locations!

17. Check Your Geographical Spotting Skills

How well does your team know different areas of the world? Geotastic is a free platform where you can compete and find out who’s the best at identifying where they are! In this game, you are dropped in a random location on Earth where you can move around to figure out where in the world you are. The game has a 6 person limit, but you can ask your colleagues to team up, jump on calls, and have one player share their screen. This way, they can practise their cooperation skills too!

Bonus suggestion

18. Outdoor Work Day

If you can’t organise any activities this Earth Day, there’s still an opportunity to celebrate this holiday in your remote workplace! It’s simple, free, and doesn’t require much planning. Just ask your employees to try and work from the outside that day!

Fresh air has plenty of positive effects on the human body and mind, including boosting well-being, strengthening your immune system, and even sharpening your mind. This means that organising an outdoor work day for your remote workers will not only allow them to connect with nature and feel better, it can also make them more effective employees!

Final notes

This Earth Day, remember to combine team building with paying tribute to the environment. The planet can always use our support, so the least we can do is educate ourselves and take part in eco-friendly activities. In short, your plan for the 22nd of April should be simple: organise one of the suggested virtual activities, educate yourself on the state of our planet, and consider supporting an environmental organisation.

FAQs

What is Virtual Earth Day?

Virtual Earth Day is simply the celebration of Earth Day online! It can be approached in different ways and celebrated through education, themed activities, as well as games. Virtual Earth Day can be an important event in any remote environment, especially at a work-from-home company!

How can Virtual Earth Day activities help my team bond?

Organising Virtual Earth Day games that involve cooperation and teamwork is a great way to include a remote team building element in the celebration. Educational activities, such as workshops and discussions, will allow your colleagues to get to know each other better, discover shared values and interests, and as a result build healthier workplace relationships. 

How do I organise Virtual Earth Day at work?

Depending on which Earth Day online activities you have in mind, you may want to approach the topic differently. The general rule is to start planning early enough, figure out your budget and decide what kind of activities you want to have. If you’re doing it without external help, make sure you have a detailed to-do list and support of other employees!  You can also consider the help of a remote team building company, which can host the activities for you!

When can I celebrate Virtual Earth Day online?

Earth Day happens on the 22nd of April every year. However, if your team can’t celebrate on that day, it’s completely okay to organise the online activities on any day around that date! There’s never a bad time to protect our planet.

What is the best way to celebrate Earth Day at work?

If you want to properly celebrate Earth Day at work, make sure you stick to the objectives of the event and include some eco-friendly activities. The best way to do it is to combine them with a team-building element. The best examples would be educating your colleagues on Earth protection through engaging trivia games, hosting workshops on sustainable living, and playing virtual games that draw attention to crucial environmental issues.