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Earth Day 2025

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here… Have to admit, I’ve been avoiding the news–choosing to feel joy, versus anxiety. But, it’s my favorite day to celebrate and wanted to say HAVE A WONDER-FILLED EARTH DAY. Celebrate this amazing planet that we all call home.

“TIME’s 2024 Kid of the Year,” inventor of a cancer-fighting soap

15 year-old Heman Bekele is not your typical high school student. Rather than spending his free time playing video games or staring at his phone, this teenager from Fairfax, Virginia, was calling professors and conducting experiments, all to invent a product he hopes could help change the world. READ MORE…

Melinda French Gates to give $1 billion to women’s rights groups

“Decades of research on economics, well-being and governance make it clear that investing in women and girls benefits everyone,” French Gates said.

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International Youth Council (IYC) Climate Summit

The University of Wolverhampton will host this year’s International Youth Council (IYC) Climate Summit.

The event, between 23 and 25 July, will look at climate change, creating a greener environment and developing skills and education for green entrepreneurs.

There will be debates, workshops and presentations that aim to “inspire and empower young leaders”.

The university said it expected delegates to attend from all around the world.

David Wedge, deputy head of alumni relations, said the university was “incredibly proud” to be hosting the summit, “because it brings together so many important and highly relevant themes vital to the university and the communities we support." 

He added: "From green technologies, to international collaboration, we share the vision of the IYC, and we are particularly pleased that this collaboration has come about through an alumnus of the university.”

The youth council supports young people around the world in all United Nations members countries.

Caroline Gall,BBC News, West Midlands

The women looking after an island paradise

Kih'Nyiah McKay may be just 11 years old, but she is keenly aware of the climate crisis. “Young people need to save the Earth,” she says with a solemnity that belies her age.

‘I want to erase my own footprint’: The women looking after an island paradise

HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!!!!!

Earth Day started 54 years ago–thanks to John McConnell.

How do you build without over polluting? That’s the challenge of new Catan board game

Earth Day 2024: 8 ways to live more sustainably : Life Kit

American Climate Corps - creators, thinkers, leaders, and doers, working together to tackle the climate crisis https://www.acc.gov/

Dia Mirza: The biggest climate issue is egotistical men

“The biggest climate issue is a bunch of egotistical men who refuse to change,” Dia Mirza says, referring to the heads of multinational corporations.

“The polluters know their choices are killing our planet and our people, so there are really no excuses for them not to change.”

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LOVE THIS CONSCIOUS GENERATION In a first, a climate lawsuit from young people is going to trial

Sixteen young people who say the state isn’t doing enough to address climate change will get their day in court Monday. The lawsuit argues that lack of action violates plaintiffs’ rights under the state Constitution. This is the first youth climate lawsuit to ever make it all the way to trial in the U.S. READ MORE…

LOVE THIS CONSCIOUS GENERATIONIn a first, a climate lawsuit from young people is going to trial

Sixteen young people who say the state isn’t doing enough to address climate change will get their day in court Monday. The lawsuit argues that lack of action violates plaintiffs’ rights under the state Constitution. This is the first youth climate lawsuit to ever make it all the way to trial in the U.S. READ MORE…

MARCH IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

BUT REALLY, SHOULDN’T IT BE CALLED Women’s HERSTORY Month.

Here are just a few upcoming events - find more at https://womenshistorymonth.gov