Earth-Day-Challenge 2025
There are always things that motivate us - or visibly help us to motivate ourselves. Apple has solved this perfectly with the rings and challenges on the Apple Watch and so there is another challenge today.
The Earth Day Challenge 2025 is once again a badge that you can add to your collection alongside the three obligatory rings (Move, Exercise, Stand) in order to - well - feel better about yourself or show lazy friends or colleagues what you have more or less achieved in terms of sport. Of course, this is all part of the official Earth Day, which is today.
If you want to go more or less public with your sporting performance, you can also use the new badges for iMessage or FaceTime although they rather tend to motivate me to perhaps do a little more (again) than in normal everyday life - especially now, when you’re still on vacation (like me). In my own case, I’ve also noticed that a gadget like the Apple Watch makes me pay more attention to and track how, how often and when I move and with what activity. Of course, I’m also driven by streaks, but in principle I work better with such awareness (just in terms of getting up every hour in an actually sedentary activity) but that certainly doesn’t have to and won’t apply to everyone!
Idealistically speaking, Apple regularly organizes Apple Watch challenges to encourage users to move more and lead a more active life. However, the Earth Day Challenge has a special message: It combines physical activity with an appeal for environmental protection and draws attention to the importance of a conscious approach to nature which is mainly missing these days. Whether a watch can change this is open to question, but other manufacturers (hello, Garmin!) are of course also focusing on joint challenges with each other.
It won’t make the world a better or worse place but perhaps the focus will be a little more on the environment again - if you’re out and about in the fresh air anyway, you’ll certainly take the virtual Earth Day 2025 medal with you in any case! If you really want to calculate your ecological footprint, you’ll find what you’re looking for at WWF or Carbon Footprint Calculator and besides, the official website has lots of information how to do your own bits on participating in environmentalism!