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Celebrating Earth Day Through a Photo Contest

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Every April 22nd, billions of people around the world celebrate Earth Day. This annual event serves as a global call to action, reminding us that collective, small actions can create a large-scale, positive impact. Earth is experiencing a multifaceted, anthropogenic environmental crisis — marked by pollution, resource depletion, loss of biodiversity, and severe climate events — and needs our help. 

This April, CSS incentivized Employee Owners to spend time helping the Earth by organizing a photo contest. To enter, individuals had to participate in an activity that supports their local environment and submit a photo of their work. Contest entries spanned a wide range of activities, from picking up litter to building bluebird trails, educating people on recycling, collecting bathymetry data on a kayak, planting native flowers, and more.  

Dozens of CSS employees voted for their favorite photo, and the winner received a $250 gift card! Thank you to everyone who dedicated personal time to carrying out the company mission — building a healthier and more environmentally sustainable world for all – in honor of Earth Day. We look forward to doing a similar initiative next year! 

Woman holds brown paper bag filled with cigarette butts.
Picking up cigarettes in Jacksonville Beach, FL with the nonprofit Beaches Go Green.
Man tends to a bluebird nesting box (left). View of nest with five eggs (top right) and view of nest with five baby birds (bottom right)
Volunteering with the bluebird monitoring team in Clifton, VA, which establishes bluebird trails with nesting boxes and collects data to track progress.
Woman crouches on a shoreline next to a large piece of floating dock washed up on shore.
The biggest piece of trash found on the Pivers Island living shoreline in Beaufort, NC during their Earth Day cleanup event.
Woman stands on a sidewalk holding a bag of trash near a pile of trash bags.
Picking up trash in Washington, DC with the nonprofit District Cleanups.
Several women sit at tables in an exhibit hall
Volunteering for the Rocky River Green Team at the 2026 Earthfest event in Rocky River, OH.
(left) man paddles kayak. (right) screen shows view of floor or river under kayak.
Collecting bathymetry data with sonar and picking up trash in the Chicago River with the nonprofit Urban Rivers.
Three pressed flower glass frames with chains.
Creating pressed flower artwork after planting native wildflowers at Ecovillage in Ithaca, NY.

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