Climate Change Awareness on Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day

What a good day it is to be an ice cream lover. No matter what you’re facing today – any life or work challenges, and puddles you might step in – you must remember one thing and one thing only: today you can get a free ice cream cone.

Did your dentist tell you to come back for a root canal? Thanks to Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day, you can forget about that for at least the 3 to 5 minutes it takes for you to finish your ice cream cone.

Then you probably should get that root canal done.

Besides the more official International Day of Human Space Flight – which celebrates 55 years since Yuri Gagarin went on the first space trip – April 12 also brings something more tangible to celebrate: Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s.

Check out their website to see all the locations across the U.S. where you can claim your free scoop(s) from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. today.

You can simply walk in and ask for your refreshing ice cream with no strings attached – you don’t have to buy one to get one or pay for some secret coupon no-one is telling you about. The company has been keeping the tradition since 1979, and you might even get seconds if you play nice.

What’s even cooler is that this is the second year when Ben & Jerry’s is using its Free Cone Day to raise awareness and educate people on climate change.

Besides this cool video they published in 2015, you can also go to their website to sign an online petition for “a more effective transition to 100 percent clean energy.”

More than anything else that happened last year, 2015 was the year of climate change, peaking with the United Nations Climate Summit (COP21), which took place in Paris in December.

B&J and thousands of other companies got together and asked their fans to sign over 3.5 million petitions for 100% clean energy by 2050, all before the critical negotiation happened.

On the website of the popular ice cream, the company writes:

“Thanks to all of those who stood up for what they believed in, signed the petition and took action on climate, a landmark agreement was signed by 196 countries with the goal of holding average global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. This was the first major step in a critical journey towards a healthier climate future.”

See you at the Free Cone Day!
Image Source: Ben & Jerry

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I am a geek, a gamer and a writer. I have always been fascinated with the online community. At the moment I work as a full-time writer and study interior design. When I'm not scouring the net in search of interesting new gadgets and software I spend my time in MOBAs or drawing.