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SHADE OF YOUTH New Generations Put Earth First by Randy Kambic
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ProjectGreenU.org site features eco-friendly products, plus green advice geared for college stu- dents. It also operates a Conscience College Road Tour, leadership pro- gram, and organic non-GmO school lunch programs in Marin County and Sausalito schools via its Conscious Kitchen and Eco Top Chef programs. Milwaukee’s 13th annual Sustain- ability Summit and Exposition (
SustainabilitySummit.us), from April 13 to 15, will admit local students for free. “We’ll address trends and po- tential careers in energy engineering, environmental health and water quality technology, sustainability and renew- able energy,” says Summit Chair George Stone, a Milwaukee Area Technical College natural sciences instructor. Bradley Blaeser, founder and co-
Every generation gets a chance to change the world. ~Paul David Hewson (Bono)
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aby boomers inspired in their youth by Earth Day are now sup- porting a new generation’s enthu- siasm for sustainability through educa- tional and employment opportunities. A 2015 Nature Conservancy survey of 602 teens from 13 to 18 years old revealed that roughly 76 percent strongly believe that issues like climate change can be solved if action is taken now; they also hold that safeguarding important lands and waters should be a priority, regard- less of ancillary benefits or the economy. This represents an increase in awareness since a 2010 Yale University Project on Climate Change Communication survey of 517 youths 13 to 17 years old showed that just 54 percent believed global warming was even happening. Launched as Teens for Safe Cosmet- ics in 2005 and renamed Teens Turning Green two years later, today’s expanded Turning Green (TG) nonprofit of marin County, California, also informs and inspires college and graduate students
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to live and advocate for an eco-lifestyle (
TurningGreen.org). TG’s first 30-day Project Green Challenge (PGC) in 2011 involved 2,600 students nationwide and internation- ally; last fall’s annual edition drew 4,000 students. “We’ve seen tremendous increases in sustainability offices and curriculums at universities nationwide,” notes Judi Shils, founder and executive director. “They have set an intention.” reilly reynolds, a senior at Ohio
Wesleyan University, hopes to take up urban farming and eventually own a farm-to-table organic restaurant. The PGC finalist and TG student advisory board member says, “I strive to lead an environmentally friendly and socially responsible life, but there is always room for improvement.” Another PGC 2015 finalist, matt Gal, a senior at the University of Arkan- sas, also aspires to be an organic farmer. He wants “to grow and give away as much fresh and organic food as possible to people who need it most.”
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owner of The Green Team of Wiscon- sin, Inc., which provides eco-friendly landscaping and gardening services, helped start the Sustainable Enterprise Association of Milwaukee. As a social worker at the nonprofit Neighborhood House of Milwaukee in the late 90s, he helped young people in schools and community centers learn how to build their own aquaponics system, plus other gardening skills. “We hit the marks as far as science
guidelines,” he recalls. “Kids would see the entire seed-to-harvest cycle through after-school and summer camps. Teach- ers also embraced nature a little more and saw how they could infuse it in curriculums.” He notes that two young men that subsequently graduated from local colleges currently work for Neigh- borhood House and Growing Power. More recently, he’s worked with
two local organizations, Next Door Foundation and Operation Dream, to teach youngsters agricultural skills and find recruits for related job training internships and employment. Green Team landscape technician Darius Smith, 25, of Milwaukee, will become a crew leader this spring. “You get a good feeling installing plants,” he says. “We’re a team, working in sync.” For the 13th year, the Agricultural
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