Youth for a Cool Earth
Youth for a Cool Earth is a program designed to give students an opportunity to join the fight against global warming in the Bay Area. The program takes a multi-faceted approach to empower students with practical skills and knowledge that they can use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Through Youth for a Cool Earth, students participate in a number of different activities designed to help them to combat global warming. As part of the program:
- Students are educated about the nature, causes and effects of global warming, as well as why it is something that they should care about.
- Students also receive leadership and peer mentoring training to help them become effective student activists.
- Breathe California offers guidance as students develop and implement projects that will help combat the effects of global warming (i.e. efforts to encourage carpooling at schools)
The goal of our Youth for a Cool Earth program is to encourage students to embrace environmental activism as their own personal duty. By instilling a sense of personal responsibility and environmental ethics into students, Breathe California hopes to ensure that our community is ready and able to fight global warming now and in the future.
To learn more about the Youth for Cool Earth program, please contact Dennis Acha at (408) 998-5865 or dennis@lungsrus.org.