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Fast Fashion and the Environment
My name is Jojo, I am 15 years old now, and I used to live in Seattle when I was an active member of Plant for the Planet. The global Fashion Industry uses 1.5 Trillion liters of water to produce clothes annually! This is an outrageous amount of water. For...
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“We should be eating less meat” – Message from Youth
These young people contacted us to help share the work they have done on a climate change presentation. "Hi, our names are Victor and Alexandra and we are 13-year old twins from New York. Climate change has concerned us so we wanted to make a change in our...
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The News isn’t Good. Now What?
[Jamie Margolin (Seattle) leading the Zero Hour march in Washington DC in 2017.] TODAY The news over the last few days has been particularly dire, and another thing I've learned is this - the kids read the news. They read on social media, and in the classroom. We...
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Vashon Island Stewardship Forest 2019
Climate Action Families and Plant for the Planet just completed our second annual Vashon Island Stewardship Forest tree planting day on November 10th. Having some rain recently helped get our new little tree saplings and mid-story shrubs into the ground safely on...
read moreChildren’s Books: A Global Perspective
Children’s Books: Global Perspectives The American media often highlights the role of the United States and Europe in stories about environmental activism. Books can paint a broader picture, showing how environmental heroes arise on every continent. The six children’s...
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Jamie : “Thank you for finally listening to us.”
Jamie Margolin, Plant for the Planet veteran and founder of the International youth climate action organization, Zero Hour, spoke before Congress on Wednesday, alongside Greta Thunberg and 2 other youth climate leaders. Jamie has been organizing since she was 14 and...
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Zoe : “Act like our world is on fire, because it is.”
Youth were informed this week that if they decided to strike, their absences would not be excused, while many schools across the country pre-emptively declared that they would not punish the students for striking for the future. So, Zoe Schurman hit the pavement for...
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Caroline : “I want politicians to know that kids care, and we see everything they do. “
Caroline Heege, co-president of Climate Action Youth, has been an effective climate advocate for much of her life and was recently featured in Seattle's Child and Newsweek as she prepared for the global climate strike on September 20th. A graduate of the Plant for the...
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Seattle: Let’s work together for climate justice!
Seattle: Let's continue to work together for climate justice! Let's keep this momentum going! Climate change is not going away, and we have a lot of work ahead to reengineer so much of our lives. It's time for us to reach a state of resolve that we ARE going to make...
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