ABC News and Ginger Zee Celebrate The Power of Us This Earth Week (Exclusive)
It’s all too easy to feel powerless when contemplating the long list of environmental concerns impacting life on the planet we all call home, be it climate change, rising sea levels or a depleted ozone layer. That’s precisely why Ginger Zee wanted to send an empowering message when selecting a name for ABC News’s new week-long series commemorating Earth Week 2024.
Launching Sunday, April 21 and running through Friday, April 26, The Power of Us encompasses a number of environmental-themed stories that will air across ABC News programs like The View, GMA3 and Nightline, and platforms including ABC News Digital, ABC News Radio and ABC NewsOne. The series is part of The Walt Disney Company and National Geographic’s ourHOME campaign, which has been running throughout Earth Month on other Disney-owned properties.
Zee reported many of the stories featured in The Power of Us and says that the experience of seeing human initiative for finding sustainable solutions to various climate crises in action provided her with fresh hope for the future. We’re a lot better than we give ourselves credit for, she notes. We’re coming up with ways of revolutionizing the world and utilizing technology. I get really excited about the solutions — the part that gets murky is how do we agree on those solutions?
One of the most memorable conversations that Zee had while reporting The Power of Us was with Michael Reynolds, the Taos-based architect and environmentalist behind the Earthship solar house. Living in one of Reynolds’s signature creations for three days almost convinced Zee to make an Earthship her dream retirement home. Almost.
While in the American Southwest, Zee also spent time with Brett Isaac, the founder and executive chairman of Navajo Power, for a story that will air on World News Tonight with David Muir. Located in Navajo Nation, the organization seeks to bring reliable and renewable energy sources — including solar power — to the estimated 15,000 homes that still lack electricity in the region.
As Earth Week unfolds with The Power of Us, ABC News and Ginger Zee aim to highlight the collective power of individuals, communities, governments, and global efforts towards a sustainable and environmentally conscious future.
