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Young Voices on Climate Change is a series of short films featuring young people using science and data
to reduce the carbon footprint of their homes, schools, communities, and states. The trailer and six short videos, each
about 4 minutes long, present replicable success stories. Young Voices on Climate Change allows young voices to be heard and that inspires action, the best antidote to fear.
These young voices reach our hearts and minds. The DVD includes:
1. Movie Trailer - a representation of many of the youth whose accomplishments are featured in the Young Voices on Climate Change films.
2. Kids vs Global Warming - 12-year-old Alec Loorz created Kids vs. Global Warming, the Sea Level Awareness Project and the Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels campaign.
3. Girl Scouts - With support from the Sierra Club, these Girl Scouts go door-to-door distributing thousands of free energy efficient fluorescent light bulbs (CFC's).
4. Team Marine- In this inspiring story, we follow Team Marine, an eco-minded group of students at Santa Monica High School, as they successfully campaign to ban plastic bags in their city.
5. Anya: Citizen Science in Siberia - Anya, an indigenous Siberian girl, sees her world literally melting away due to warming caused by the developed world's CO2 emissions. Anya joins Arctic scientist Max Holmes' research team to learn, and teach her schoolmates about, global warming.
6. Plant for the Planet - As a 9-year-old boy, Felix founded Plant for the Planet and has planted more than 500,000 trees in Germany which he says help sequester carbon and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now 11, Felix talks about "climate justice".
7. Green Ambassadors - Teenagers from Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale, CA recycle, compost, plant trees, educate elementary school students about sustainability and do much more to reduce their carbon footprint.
To view a few of the films and learn how you can reduce your carbon footprint like the young people in the films do, go to YoungVoicesonClimateChange.com
The Young Voices on Climate Change films have been screened at the American Museum of Natural History, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science,
at a National Council on Science and the Environment workshop in Washington DC, and at the Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale, Fl.
Young Voices on Climate Change is produced and directed by Lynne Cherry, the author and illustrator of many popular children's books, including the rain forest classic,
The Great Kapok Tree.
Click here to order Young Voices on Climate Change.
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