Global Earth Day Summit 2025
Awards Portal
35 Changemakers... 1 Thriving Future... Infinite Ripples...
This is not just another awards programme.
This is a once-in-a-generation invitation for every city, every leader, every citizen to step into the story of our time.
A story about what happens when ordinary people everywhere come together to do something extraordinary.
Living Cities Earth invites YOU to be part of co-creating a better future — a future that every human, everywhere not only can be part of… but must be part of, if we are to thrive together on this planet.
Right where you are. In your neighbourhood, your city, your classroom, your business, your home.
At the same time, you’ll be helping create a collective global impact big enough, bold enough — and loving enough — to change everything.
This is a once-in-a-generation invitation for every city, every leader, every citizen to step into the story of our time.
A story about what happens when ordinary people everywhere come together to do something extraordinary.
Living Cities Earth invites YOU to be part of co-creating a better future — a future that every human, everywhere not only can be part of… but must be part of, if we are to thrive together on this planet.
Right where you are. In your neighbourhood, your city, your classroom, your business, your home.
At the same time, you’ll be helping create a collective global impact big enough, bold enough — and loving enough — to change everything.
Because this isn’t just about joining a Summit.
This is about becoming part of an unprecedented global collaboration to reimagine and rebuild a world where we all can thrive.
Together.
This is not just another network
It’s the living pulse of a new kind of world.
Every city is like a beating heart.
Every person — every idea, every action — sends a signal.
Together, we light up the map.
→ Every entrepreneur sparks connection.
→ Every citizen moves the story forward.
→ Every city becomes part of something bigger.
This is the Earth — alive, awake, moving with us.
This is about becoming part of an unprecedented global collaboration to reimagine and rebuild a world where we all can thrive.
Together.
This is not just another network
It’s the living pulse of a new kind of world.
Every city is like a beating heart.
Every person — every idea, every action — sends a signal.
Together, we light up the map.
→ Every entrepreneur sparks connection.
→ Every citizen moves the story forward.
→ Every city becomes part of something bigger.
This is the Earth — alive, awake, moving with us.
Get Activated
Get Connected
Get Collaborative
Get Awarded
Get Connected
Get Collaborative
Get Awarded
This year, we are honouring the Four Voices of the City + One — and recognising 35 extraordinary changemakers who dared to show up creatively and courageously for their cities, their people, and the planet.
These awards aren’t about being the biggest.
They’re about being the bravest.
About showing up — fully, locally, together.
These awards aren’t about being the biggest.
They’re about being the bravest.
About showing up — fully, locally, together.
How Can YOU Help Get People to the Summit?
No matter who you are, there’s a role for you.
Because creating a thriving world needs all of us.
No matter who you are, there’s a role for you.
Because creating a thriving world needs all of us.
The Awards
For City Mayors & Administrations
Become a Host City for the Global Earth Day Summit.
How to activate:
Your leadership shows your citizens that their voices matter — and that your city belongs on the map of thriving futures.
Become a Host City for the Global Earth Day Summit.
How to activate:
- Share a public invitation from your Mayor or city leadership.
- Promote the Summit through your city’s social media, website, and newsletters.
- Partner with schools, libraries, cultural hubs to spread the word.
- Host a simple online or in-person "watch party" during the Summit.
Your leadership shows your citizens that their voices matter — and that your city belongs on the map of thriving futures.
Ten Brave City Mayors & their Administrations will receive ...
- A featured story in the LCE Journal to 10,000 Cities
- Global recognition as an official LCE Host City
- A Free Needs Assessment Consultation with LCE Expert Consultants → mapping your city's most pressing needs
- Recommendations & strategies for accessing non-debt-based funding
- An invitation to join LCE’s Living City Journey global learning network
- Ongoing partnership opportunities with LCE for future co-designed initiatives
Host City Award
What could you gain
For Everyday Citizens
Create a personal, heartfelt, or creative invitation for your community.
How to activate:
- Make a 60-second video, reel or voice note: Why should people care about this Summit?
- Write a post, poem, or open letter and share it online.
- Invite your family, friends, neighbours, co-workers.
- Use WhatsApp, Instagram, email, TikTok — whatever you love.
You become the ripple. The personal invitation always lands the deepest.
Five Brave Citizens will receive ...
- A featured story in the LCE Journal to 10,000 Cities
- A personal interview & spotlight on LCE’s global platforms
- A digital badge: Citizen Storyteller of a Living City
- An opportunity to co-create future LCE storytelling projects
- An invitation to join the LCE Story Circle — a global network of citizen narrators & local legends
Activated Citizen Award
What could you gain
For Civil Society Organizations
Help people from different walks of life show up together.
How to activate:
When you weave the threads of your city together, something beautiful happens.
Help people from different walks of life show up together.
How to activate:
- Mobilize diverse voices — youth & elders, artists & teachers, activists & entrepreneurs.
- Host a small online gathering to watch a Summit session together.
- Translate and share the invitation in local languages.
- Use your mailing lists, WhatsApp groups or community hubs to invite broadly.
When you weave the threads of your city together, something beautiful happens.
Five Brave Citizens will receive ...
- A featured story in the LCE Journal to 10,000 Cities
- A personal interview & spotlight on LCE’s global platforms
- A digital badge: Citizen Storyteller of a Living City
- An opportunity to co-create future LCE storytelling projects
- An invitation to join the LCE Story Circle — a global network of citizen narrators & local legends
Community Weaver Award
What could you gain
For Business Leaders & Innovators
Use your business platform for good — mobilise your team, customers, partners.
How to activate:
This is purpose in action — and the world needs to see it.
Use your business platform for good — mobilise your team, customers, partners.
How to activate:
- Host a “Summit Pause” event for staff or clients.
- Add a Summit invitation in your newsletter or website.
- Create a fun social media challenge.
- Offer a small incentive for employees to attend — a coffee voucher, a shout-out, or even just time together.
This is purpose in action — and the world needs to see it.
Five Brave Businesses and or Innovators will receive ...
- A case Study featured in the LCE Journal to 10,000 Cities
- A digital badge: Regenerative Business in Action
- Access to LCE’s Marketplace of Miracles network
- An invitation to future regenerative business roundtables with LCE Thought Leaders
- Priority access to LCE workshops on Regenerative Branding & Purpose-Led Leadership
Ripple in The Marketplace Award
What could you gain
For Youth & Youth Groups
Make noise. Make culture. Make it impossible to ignore.
How to activate:
Youth energy sparks change faster than anything else on Earth.
Make noise. Make culture. Make it impossible to ignore.
How to activate:
- Create a reel, remix, meme, dance or audio drop.
- Challenge your friends to register & show up.
- Host a mini online gathering or create a group chat to watch together.
- Make it playful, fun, and yours.
Youth energy sparks change faster than anything else on Earth.
Five Brave Youth and or Youth Groups will receive ...
- A feature story in the LCE Journal to 10,000 Cities
- A digital badge: Youth Spark for a Thriving Future
- An opportunity to co-host or perform in the Earth Day Summit Closing Event
- A connection to LCE’s Future Leaders Project + YouthXYouth Global Network
- An invitation to Youth Catalyst Labs for emerging changemakers
Youth Spark Award
What could you gain
For Storytellers Who Dare to Move People Into Action
This is for every media voice with the courage to tell stories that matter.
Big or small. Local or global. Traditional or digital.
We’re calling in:
Journalists, Podcasters, YouTubers, Tik-Tok Creators, Newsletter Writers, Bloggers, Radio Hosts, Community Media, Vloggers, Magazine Editors, Digital Creators, Social Media Channels
Anyone using their platform to inspire participation, not just spectatorship.
How to activate:
Brave Media doesn't just tell the story.
Brave Media helps people step into the story.
This award honours media voices who used their platform to:
How To Be Considered:
Simple. Show up for the story of life on Earth.
This is for every media voice with the courage to tell stories that matter.
Big or small. Local or global. Traditional or digital.
We’re calling in:
Journalists, Podcasters, YouTubers, Tik-Tok Creators, Newsletter Writers, Bloggers, Radio Hosts, Community Media, Vloggers, Magazine Editors, Digital Creators, Social Media Channels
Anyone using their platform to inspire participation, not just spectatorship.
How to activate:
Brave Media doesn't just tell the story.
Brave Media helps people step into the story.
This award honours media voices who used their platform to:
- Drive people to register for the Summit
- Invite their community into the 60-day experience
- Spotlight regenerative stories from their city or region
- Share the voices of citizens creating a thriving future
How To Be Considered:
Simple. Show up for the story of life on Earth.
- Use your platform to promote the Summit
- Share stories of regenerative action, courage & creativity
- Drive registrations using your unique link
- Submit your stories / episodes / articles to LCE's Media Highlights Form
Five Brave Storytellers and or Media Channels will receive ...
- Brave Media Digital Badge — to display with pride
- Profile feature in LCE Journal to 10,000 Cities
- Recognition across LCE’s global platforms
- Invitation to future LCE Story Collaborations
- Priority access to LCE's co-founders for interviews
- Special feature during the Summit Closing Event — honouring Brave Media voices from every corner of the world
Brave Media Award
What could you gain
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