environment

Check out this article, and the video (to the right of the article). The article tells us Arctic ice is meling "much faster than our most pessimistic projections" (University of Manitoba Prof. David Barber). 

everywhere you go these days you see merchandise in pink boxes, with pink highlights and promises that part of the proceeds will go to breast cancer research. as october (aka breast cancer awareness month) rolls in, the concentration of pink in the grocery store, pharmacy and even wine store (rosés are pink, after all), and i get more and more annoyed.

'what a jerk!' you think, 'why does this person hate people with breast cancer?' dear reader, this is not the case. i love my mother, high school bio teacher, and aunt. the issue here is not that i really want breast cancer to hurt and kill people. rather it is that while the Run to Stop Breast Cancer, or the Walk, or the Bike Ride, or the Bottle of Wine, may give people an opportunity to have some catharsis around the stress and pain of going through chemo or supporting a loved one through the process, i'm not so sure that the money those items are raising is going to stop breast cancer...

The Sierra Youth Coalition is a Canadian organization run by youth for youth, serving as the youth arm of the Sierra Club of Canada. We are a group of inspired and committed youth who desire to see the working realities of sustainability integrated into the daily operations of life around us.

Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) is a local youth driven non-profit organization dedicated to the health of our urban environment, our planet & the wellbeing of its people. By providing young people with meaningful employment, in projects that benefit our communities, we support our environment socially as well as ecologically.

A dream born in Kenya has become a charitable organization of hopeful young people uniting as the Otesha Project. Otesha, which means "reason to dream" in Swahili, was created to mobilize youth to create local and global change through their daily consumer choices.

SEAC-pronounced "seek," as in "seeking" -is a grassroots coalition of student and youth environmental groups, working together to protect our planet and our future.