(AP) Charlie Browns nemesis, the kite-eating tree, is well-known. The Peanuts hero hopes to end this kind of rivalry as we enter Earth Day and Arbor Day.
Apple TV+ is showing a new Peanuts Special, which celebrates the environment while highlighting the importance of small changes to help the Earth. It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown has a new song by Ben Folds. April 22 is Earth Day.
Charlie Browns attempt to win the neighborhood championship baseball match is thwarted by his little sister Sally trying to protect a dandelion that grows on the pitcher’s mound. Soon, everyone is cleaning the baseball field.
Charlie Brown is probably 90% of the population. He doesn’t really want any challenges. Sally, the son and creator of Peanuts, is here representing the new generation. She cares about the little things and knows that they can make a big difference.
This is just one of many ways that the cartoon gang celebrates the Earth this year. Peanuts is also releasing 1976s Its Arbor Day Charlie Brown from its vault on Apple TV+ on April 29. A new original short video, “We Need Our Trees”, is available on Peanuts YouTube channels in the U.S.A and abroad and GoNoodle.com.
This project is part of Peanuts Worldwide’s Take Care With Peanuts initiative. It encourages global citizenship through three key initiatives: Take care yourself, take care each other, and take care the Earth.
The company will also continue its global tree planting project. This includes everything from a community-based urban gardening project in Chicago to restoring forests around Nepal’s Chitwan National Park. Peanuts.com offers free lesson plans for K2 students and 36 students, which explore the importance trees.
Peanuts’ entire content is derived from the 18,000 strips Charles M. Schulz left behind. Melissa Menta, head marketing for Peanuts Worldwide calls it the Bible of Peanuts. It contains stories of frustration and failure, but also friendship and kindness to people and the planet.
It is very genuine. You might get hit over the heads by one of the characters, but the messages and subtleties are clever and subtle, Menta stated.
The other TV and streaming programming that honors Earth Day include two documentaries by Disney+/National Geographic: Explorer, The Last Tepui, which features climbers scaling a 1,000-foot sheer cliff; and The Biggest Little Farm, which revisits John Chester and Molly Chester’s 10-year journey to bring life back to a dry farm. Both will be available on Disney+ April 22.
Paramount+ will launch a special carousel called Earth Through Different Lenses, which will be available on Paramount+’s homepage starting Monday. It will feature documentaries that highlight the work of environmentalists around world.
Ryan Reynolds narrates discovery+’s documentary, Curb Your Carbon. It outlines 10 things you can do now to reduce carbon dioxide in your life, including eating less meat and planting more trees. Curb Your Carbon will be available on the streaming site April 21.
