One card per year. Each card: name, dates, venue, attendance, two or three headline speakers, one story, and a photo or event guide link.
2011 · Earth Day Dallas · April 22-23 · Dallas Arts District · about 48,000
Pete McCloskey, co-chair of the first national Earth Day, and actor Larry Hagman, who talked about living in one of the country’s largest solar homes. Earth Day Network ranked it the second largest Earth Day celebration in the U.S. in its first year.
2012 · Earth Day Dallas · April 21-22 · Fair Park · 58,000
Former First Lady Laura Bush opened the first Fair Park festival. Amos Lee headlined the music, and The Nature Conservancy held its “Picnic for the Planet” world record attempt.
2013 · Earth Day Dallas · April 20-21 · Fair Park · 41,000
Honest Tea brought a 12-foot recycling bin. Later that year the event became Earth Day Texas.
2014 · Earth Day Texas · April 26-27 · Fair Park · about 57,000
Ed Begley Jr., 2013 CNN Hero Chad Pregracke and naturalist David Mizejewski. The Polyphonic Spree closed the weekend. (Attendance is reported as 50,000 to 58,000.)
2015 · Earth Day Texas · April 24-26 · Fair Park · 65,000
The first three-day festival: Karenna Gore, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, former Houston Mayor Bill White and Audubon President David Yarnold.
2016 · Earth Day Texas · April 22-24 · Fair Park · about 130,000
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ted Roosevelt IV and Karenna Gore. Attendance more than doubled, and the first Celebrities for Change gala was held.
2017 · Earth Day Texas · April 21-23 · Fair Park · about 116,000
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Gen. Wesley Clark and Katharine Hayhoe. EarthxFilm and the E-Capital Summit began, and the EARTHx name was announced.
2018 · EarthX · April 20-22 · Fair Park · about 137,000
Buzz Aldrin, James Baker, Governor John Kasich and Susan Eisenhower. The first year as EarthX, billed as “the world’s largest environmental expo, conference and film festival.”
2019 · EarthX · April 26-28 · Fair Park · more than 177,000
Rick Perry with Senators Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse, Howard Schultz, Fabien Cousteau and former Mexican President Felipe Calderón. The first Island Resilience Forum. The peak year.
2020 · EarthX2020 · online · 570,000+ livestream views
The 50th Earth Day, held online with National Geographic after COVID closed Fair Park. EarthxTV was born.
2021 · EarthX Earth Week · hybrid
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, EarthxFilm at drive-ins and Klyde Warren Park, and the premiere of Percy Vs. Goliath.
2022 · Earthx2022 · April 22-24 · Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center
Back in person after two years. Capt. Paul Watson in conversation with CEO Michael Fletcher, and the first Congress of Conferences.
2023 · EarthX 2023 · April 21-23 · Fair Park
Rick Perry, Van Jones, Andrew Zimmern and NOAA’s Dr. Jainey Bavishi. The last Fair Park expo, and the RotaryXperience with Past RI President Mark Maloney.
2024 · Earthx2024 Congress of Conferences · April 22-26 · Hilton Anatole
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Van Jones and Benji Backer. Partnerships for the Goals, opened and closed by Trammell S. Crow.
2025 · Earthx2025 · April 21-25 · Hilton Anatole
Gen. David Petraeus, Fabien Cousteau, Susan Eisenhower and Dr. Sylvia Earle. The Earth Day Women’s Summit debuted, and the Rotary Xperience and Sea 2 Sky Solutions took the stage.
2026 · Earthx2026 · April 20-22 · Hilton Anatole · “One Planet. One Mission.”
Dr. Robert Ballard, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Ed Begley Jr. (first Earth Ambassador Award), Felipe Calderón and Lord Fakafanua, Prime Minister of Tonga. The Environmental Xperience, opened by Past RI President Barry Rassin, ran eight stages and 165 sessions.