Here are stories about young people who looked around and saw a problem that needed a serious fix. They believed they could make a difference, and, in spite of lots of opposition, they actually went ahead and did it! These stories are about young people making a difference on issues around the environment.
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Kids
Can Make A Difference, Nikki Finazzo, A
Teen
Editorial Board member. - "One
Ten Year Old Who Does Make A Difference." |
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Greenpeace,
Chad Pecor, A Teen
Editorial Board member. -
"Working for the Environment." |
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Animal
Detectives, Tsara Borsting - "All
the illegal poaching and smuggling cases are sent
to this lab. [The U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Forensics Laboratory.]" |
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CASC
(California Association of Student
Councils), Jenna Carli -
"...because of the experiences I had, I got to open
my eyes to the 'bigger' [global] picture at
an earlier age." |
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Earth
2000, Danny Seo - "...we were
going to save the planet by the year 2000." |
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Student
Conservation Association (SCA), Liz
Titus Putnam - "...our [national]
parks were being loved to death." |
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Sierra
Student Coalition, Sage Rockermann
- "...as student activists, we've been able
to experience so much success." |
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Adobe
Creek Restoration Project, Jennie Furrer
- "If we just keep trying and making a
difference then we will be able to change the
world." |
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YES!
(Youth for Environmental Sanity), Tad
Hargrave - "The biggest challenge in the
inner cities is not the violence, the drugs, the
abuse, the poverty, it's that people lose their
dreams." |
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