Will Green Jobs Be YOUTH Jobs?
While young people have been some of the biggest advocates for green jobs, no one has really tried to answer the question of whether green jobs will be youth jobs? Will more green jobs mean more jobs for youth, or will young people miss out on the very green jobs we’ve worked so hard to create?
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One Year to Earth Summit 2012: A New Generation Goes to Rio
Rio 1992 was a watershed moment for the global environmental conscience. Treaties were signed, commissions created, and action plans drafted. Yet one of the most memorable speeches from the two-week conference was by a 12-year old girl (here’s what she’s doing now).
Now, a generation later, my generation is faced with two seemingly insurmountable challenges: the world is changing at a rate never before seen, and the current governance structures are insufficient to meet even the environmental problems of the 1970s.
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Monday 10:30 EST Press Teleconference: What U.S. Youth Want Out of the UN Climate Talks
On Monday, Nov. 22, SustainUS and partner youth organizations Cascade Climate Network and the Chinese Youth Delegation will be hosting a call-in teleconference for media to discuss key issues for Cancun and plans for U.S.-Chinese youth collaboration during the talks.
The teleconference will be at 10:30 a.m. EST. Media can join via [...]
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U.S. Earns 1st “Fossil of the Day” at Bonn UN Climate Negotiations
<cross-posted on SustainUS’s Agents of Change blog and It’s Getting Hot in Here>
The United States earned the 1st Fossil of the Day Award here at the United Nations climate negotiations in Bonn. Nearly a week had passed where no country had acted badly enough in the negotiations to deserve a shameful Fossil, until the [...]
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Due by June 4 – Application to UN climate negotiations in Cancun, December 2010
Applications are now available for SustainUS’s Agents of Change delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, November 29-December 10.
Applicants must be 18-26 years old at the start of the negotiations, and must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or have been studying or [...]
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Citizen of the Week Special Contest
The Climate Community Citizen of the Week Awards program is featuring a special contest!
Based on the success of December’s Citizen of the Week contest with the Anderson School of Management, this week we’ll travel to the University of Chicago, where students in the joint undergraduate/graduate course in Environmental Economics (page 11) will have the opportunity to [...]
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A Dark Night
Hello Climate Community!
When you heard last week that I would be writing you from Copenhagen, you probably expected to get a report from inside the negotiating halls as history was made.
Instead, I’ve written from the place above – deep within a bunker that environment, development, faith, and human rights groups, along with the international youth [...]
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