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GRITtv: Alec Vs. Global Warming: Brower Youth Awards
Alec Loorz was inspired by Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" to become an educator on the issue of climate change. Founding his own organization, Kids vs. Global Warming, Alec continues to fight fossil fuels and other contributors to global warming, and encourages his peers to do the same. The Earth Island Institute created the annual Brower Youth Awards to honor six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. This video from Rikshaw Films tells Alec's story and shows what can be done with a little confidence.
Email this pageGRITtv: Roots of Change: Brower Youth Awards
The Earth Island Institute created the annual Brower Youth Awards to honor six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Each winner is awarded $3000 and brought to San Francisco for the award week and a backcountry camping trip. This video, made by Rikshaw Films, gives a little bit of insight into the kind of work the institute is promoting with this award. Diana Lopez is a food justice activist in San Antonio, Texas, and she created the Roots of Change community garden in the Eastside of San Antonio to provide fresh organic food to community residents.
GRITtv: Nov. 11, 2009
John Perkins and Russ Baker talk about shady global conspiracies, corporate overlords, and the military-industrial complex, and what we can do about it. In the new film "Collapse," filmmaker Chris Smith follows Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer who predicted the economic crisis. But his theories often range into the apocalyptic. Is he a genius, or just paranoid? A video from New America Media takes a look at the struggles of veterans to readjust to civilian life, and asks what more we could be doing to truly honor them. And a report on the Earth Island Institute Brower Youth Awards.
