Rally at Victor Steinbrueck Park by Pike Place Market for a pre-march event featuring youth speakers and music. We\’ll march the amazing new \”coal train\” and awesome Backbone polar bear \”Snowflake\” through the streets to the waterfront carrying signs and banners. When we cross the (coal) train tracks kids in animal masks will transform our coal train …
Grab your walking shoes! iMatter Saturday April 20th at 11am Read More »
If you ever wondered how to send a message to the world, here\’s one country\’s answer. Enjoy! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGgBtHoIO4g] With help from a few thousand people, the people of Belgium created this amazing music video. It\’s just an old tune set to new lyrics, and the video must have taken months to compile and edit, but …
How would you like to be a leader in a democratic global youth organization that has begun transforming the planet one tree at a time? Sounds like a dream, doesn\’t it? You have to be old enough: 8 years old and under 21. If you are 7 and a 1/2 you\’ll just have to wait …
Plant-for-the-Planet Global Boards need Youth Candidates from the U.S.A. Read More »
\”Climate change is the most pressing and threatening issue to modern-day society. Through lack of understanding from generations before us, we are having to fix it. And how can we do this without education?\” 15 year old Esha Marhawa from West London wrote a petition to keep climate change in the national curriculum for children …
15-year-old Petitions for Stronger Climate Change Science Read More »
In my slideshow for The Climate Reality Project I have introduced audiences in Seattle to the inspiring work of Felix Finkbeiner in Germany, who founded Plant For The Planet a few years ago. I want to bring an Academy here so that our kids can take the training, learn how to train other kids, become …
Care for the Planet, the Lincoln Elementary club working to reverse global warming, cleaned debris from Discovery Park beach on our day off from school. A bald eagle watched over us while we worked, and did a long slow graceful fly-by at eye level when we circled up to say thanks and goodbye. What a …
Planning is underway for a major event on Earth Day weekend, an iMatter Youth March and training! We will march along the waterfront and cross the train tracks to Olympic Sculpture Park for an Earth Day event. The puppeteers from Backbone Campaign, the Sierra Club, and others have joined in to help us make this event a …
Alec Loorz, founder of kids vs. global warming, wrote this new Declaration as a teenager. For the last few years he has been collecting signatures of youth from across the country and delivering them to congress each year. You can read the text here, and then go to iMatteryouth.org to Sign the document online and …