Environmental Stewardship

Resource booklets:
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Youth Activists:
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Destiny Watford - Goldman Prize Winner, inspired residents of a Baltimore neighborhood to defeat plans to build the nation’s largest incinerator less than a mile away from her high school
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Paddle to Protect -Indigenous youth fighting the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline who are paddling a 250-mile canoe journey across northern Minnesota
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Chloe Maxmim -Student Leader of “Divest Harvard”
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Jasilyn Charger/Standing Rock (Related: The Youth Group That Launched a Movement at Standing Rock) -Youth who started the Standing Rock movement
TED Speakers:
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Tavi Gevinson -Started her own media platform to give voice to teenage girls
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Richard Turere (Related: How to Give a Killer Presentation) -Young inventor who designed a solar-powered solution to safely scare the lions away from his rural village
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Rocio Ortega -19-year-old advocate for girls and women's rights, who speaks about “finding your own path”
Youth Activist Toolkit:
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/publications-a-z/2229-youth-activists-toolkit
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