Charlie Jiang On Making the American Dream Attainable Again
A U.S. policy analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund, Charlie Jiang advocates for just climate solutions at the state and federal level. He was a key SustainUS youth delegate to the 2017 U.N....
View ArticleYouth Activists Are Building An Intersectional Climate Justice Movement
A few weeks ago a group of young people, including myself, stood in front of Senator Diane Feinstein to ask for her help in saving our future. These young people, representing Earth Guardians, Youth...
View ArticleHow a Green New Deal in Maine Could Transform Progressive Organizing: An...
Chloe Maxmin represents District 88 in the Maine House of Representatives. She’s the youngest woman in the Maine House of Representatives and won her election running as a Democrat in a district that...
View ArticleHow Environmental Literacy and Land Stewardship Could Help Save California...
Lead photo credit: Jim Gensheimer/Bay Area News Group This article was originally published on the Ten Strands website. Ten Strands weaves stakeholders and strategies together into strong, focused...
View ArticleYouth Leading the Way for Climate Justice
Young people across the world are rising up to spur action on climate change. This powerful movement is gaining momentum as the stakes continue to escalate in the fight for their future. Featuring...
View ArticleBioneers, Native American Youth, and Google Earth Outreach Break the Silicone...
Native youth from San Francisco Unified School District’s Indian Education Program, the American Indian Child Resource Center in Oakland, and the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center at...
View ArticleHow Indian Mascots Dehumanize
Dahkota Brown (Wilton-Miwok) Founder of NERDS, Native Education Raising Dedicated Students, and appointee to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education talks about the impact that Indian mascots...
View ArticleWhat is the Global Climate Strike? Everything You Need to Know
The Global Climate Strike, Sept. 20-27, is a global movement to draw attention to the climate crisis. On Sept. 20, people are encouraged to walk out of their schools, jobs or wherever they may be to...
View ArticleInterview with Ten Strands’ Karen Cowe and Will Parish
Ten Strands is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to bringing environmental literacy to all of California’s 6.2 million K–12 students. They have been instrumental in establishing and...
View ArticleYouth vs. Apocalypse: An Allied Approach to Climate Justice Leadership
Isha Clarke of Youth vs. Apocalypse discusses how their group is redesigning the climate justice movement to centralize justice and provide a platform for youth of color and indigenous youth. YvA is...
View ArticleGlobal Climate Strike: How Youth-Led Protests Are Leading a Movement
On Sept. 20, millions of people across 132 countries are expected to leave their schools and places of work to take part in the Global Climate Strike. This protest, organized by a coalition of youth...
View ArticleYouth Rally Against Climate Inaction with a Focus on Immigration and Farmworkers
September 20th, the global morning started in Australia where more than 300,000 people marched in what is said to have been the largest climate action in Australia’s history. Despite the derisive...
View ArticleIsha Clarke: A New Era of the Climate Justice Movement
This keynote talk was delivered at the 2019 Bioneers Conference. With Isha Clarke. To build a successful global climate movement, we must prioritize the voices of those most impacted by environmental...
View ArticleMishka Banuri: A First Generation Immigrant’s Perspective on Youth Climate...
This keynote talk was given at the 2019 Bioneers Conference. A first generation Pakistani immigrant, Mishka Banuri moved to Utah when she was 12 years old and fell in love with that state’s wondrous...
View ArticleCara Romero & Paloma Flores: Recognizing Indigenous Delegations & Native...
This keynote talk was given at the 2019 Bioneers Conference. Bioneers Indigeneity Program Director Cara Romero recognizes Indigenous Delegations. Paloma Flores, Program Coordinator for the SFUSD...
View ArticleDestiny Arts Youth Performance Company | Bioneers 2019
A performance by Oakland’s own incomparably dynamic and uplifting Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company. Learn more about Destiny Arts at https://destinyarts.org/ This performance took place at the...
View ArticleThe Bioneers Pulse: Climate Solutionaries Spotlight
This article contains the content from the 1/9/2020 Bioneers Pulse newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter straight to your inbox! “No one who isn’t us is going to destroy Earth, and no one who...
View ArticleA Return to Nature-Based Education
This article was originally published in Yes! Magazine and is licensed under Creative Commons. BY DAVID T. SOBEL, M. ED. At the beginning of the 20th century, untempered industrialization and rampant...
View ArticleHow Youth Have Changed the Climate Movement
This article was originally published in Yes! Magazine and is licensed under Creative Commons. BY MIKE MALES “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children,” affirms...
View ArticleSolving the dual crises of COVID-19 and climate change
This article was written by Molly Morabito, a member of Sunrise Movement’s Bay Area chapter. Republished from Medium with permission from the author. We need a Green New Deal now more than ever to...
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