have been looking for a new book that will help me reignite my natural optimism about democracy. Browsing through Amazon’s top choices I was having a hard time finding something positive. I found a page filled with titles like: “How Democracies Die,” “How Democracy Ends,” “Democracy in Chains,” “Democracy in America?” “Unequal Democracy,” and “Democracy[…]
Written by Earth Force President and CEO, Vince Meldrum In a recent blog post, David Beckman of the Pisces Foundation made an interesting comment. He noted that for the first time in his memory the environmental movement finds itself at a place where current “policy is inimical to our basic values—not so much reflecting an[…]
The United States joins Syria, Nicaragua & Russia in deciding not to participate with world’s Paris Agreement. It’s now up to cities to lead — bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 1, 2017 If you are an environmentalist, you have spent a lot of the last four months worrying about our future. Since January you have probably[…]
Environmental justice is critical to protect under-resourced communities from environmental and health hazards and to ensure residents are involved in critical decision-making around maintaining a healthy environment. Students in Albuquerque, NM are addressing environmental justice in their community head-on by working with the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge to create their first ever Environmental[…]
I am traveling today, and everywhere I go I see the same headline: Trump 49% / Clinton 48%. But those numbers don’t reflect the reality of American civic society. Just about 59,450,000 voted for Mr. Trump – which is roughly 26% of the 231 million eligible voters in the U.S. Whether you are excited about[…]
Guest Post: Jan Sneddon, Director of GM GREEN Our partnership with General Motors takes us to amazing communities – from Kapuskasing, Ontario to Spring Hill, Tennessee; Baltimore, Maryland to Langley, British Columbia. Over the past 27 years, we’ve met some outstanding people and organizations that make these communities ripe for bringing youth to the table[…]
Recently, I’ve come across some articles that hit on a frustrating dilemma. Society has painted the current generation of young people as lazy, entitled, and self-involved. This idea is reinforced with images of youth taking selfies, stories of students talking back to their teachers and partners, and the impression that everyone gets a trophy. Not[…]
I was talking with a Wells Fargo volunteer at the Denver Youth Summit last week, and he said something that stuck with me: Every student needs to learn to think big. An Earth Force student wanted to create a ‘trash trap’ to put in Cherry Creek, the local river, to help filter trash out of[…]
Guest Post: Jan Sneddon, Director of GM GREEN Ten years ago, students in Joy McFadyen’s fifth grade class looked out their classroom window one rainy day and saw water pouring off the pavement and down the storm drain. They learned that storm water runoff from their parking lots drained into local ditches. And that the[…]
A group of students at Lanier Middle School are committed to reducing waste at their school. For the past two years, they’ve been diligently researching, planning, and fundraising to eliminate plastic bottle waste. Last year, students proposed installing water bottle filling stations to reduce plastic bottled water use, recognizing that bottled water often ends up[…]