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| tags: | #climate change, #educate the youth, #young leaders, #climate education, #NGO, #USA |
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| located: | USA |
| by: | Yair Oded |
“We’re taking control of our future. Climate Change is our generation’s biggest challenge. Let’s take action.”
This is the slogan of Alliance for Climate Change (ACC), a non-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the youth about the science of climate change and encouraging them to take action. The organization provides extensive and engaging education programs and multimedia tools that acquaint the students with the facts and science behind climate change in a manner that ties them directly to the issues at hand, yet do so in a way that encourages a sense of “justice and optimism”. They also provide teachers with lesson-plans which provide guidance on how to incorporate climate change issues into the curriculum.
In addition to imparting knowledge and increasing awareness, the organization empowers students and teachers to take action and instructs them on how become ambassadors of change. The type of engagement and action promoted by ACC ranges from simple steps that are easy to incorporate into people’s daily routine to large scale mobilization of students and volunteer teams. Through various workshops and training programs, ACC give students the tool to become climate change leaders enact change in their local communities.
Thus far, ACC have educated nearly 3 million students across the U.S. about climate change, facilitated 1 million student led climate change actions, and trained roughly 4,000 students to become climate change leaders.
Too often the narrative about climate change portrays the issue as a calamity that befalls us and which only world leaders and industry tycoons can tackle. That is not to detract from the responsibility of those in power to mobilize a large scale, policy backed, comprehensive shift in how they approach and handle human induced climate change issues. Yet, groups such as ACC and their work remind us that we, the dwellers of the earth, play a major role in both causing and fighting climate change. By educating the younger generation about the facts surrounding issue and the impact their daily habits have on the environment, ACC fosters a generation of conscious individuals who lead climate change action from within their communities.
Visit their website for more information on their programs, and to learn how you can become a climate change leader.
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