GenV Campaigns

VENTURE: Kids vs Global Warming

Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by Charles Tsai in E-Ventures, Environment

Alec Loorz, 14, USA - Kids vs Global Warming is a youth-inspired and youth-led non-profit organization, dedicated to educating kids about climate change and empowering them to take action. We, as youth are standing up and taking the lead to stop the climate crisis before it’s too late.

Kids vs Global Warming (web) makes it clear that the climate crisis will affect our generation the most. We are the ones who will have to deal with global warming if nothing is done today to help us.

Many youth don’t realize that we have the power to make change. Youth care about this issue. And they are ready to do something about it.

So Kids vs Global Warming gives presentations to schools about what global warming is, how it affects us, and what we can do NOW to take action.

After each presentation, we start an action team: a group of kids who are empowered to make change in their community. We provide each action team resources they need to green their schools, give presentations of their own, and start activism projects in their cities.

We also do our own activism projects like SLAP, the Sea Level Awareness Project where we are alerting our city, on the coast of California, of the dangers of sea level rise as a result of global warming. We put up 8 ft tall poles along the promenade at the beach showing how far under water we’d be if we don’t make changes NOW. The poles also point out how we need to work together because the waste water treatment center and electricity generating stations, among other needed things, would be affected.

We will be training other kids to give presentations and do projects like ours in their own towns. We’re creating an “Activist in a Box” kit that brings together tools and resources from lots of different organizations so kids have some support when they start clubs after our presentations. They’ll be able to do energy audits, learn about green jobs, start green businesses, talk to their families and cities about alternative energy, give presentations of their own, learn how to talk to the media and meet with government officials, etc.

Link: Kids vs Global Warming Website

Tags: climate change, Environment09, USA