Climate Activism Tag Archive
ACE INTERVIEW: Jazmine Alcon on Mental Health in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community
Jazmine Alcon (she/her) is a Filipinx mental health advocate whose goal is to provide and help nourish collective healing among the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. She is one of the co-founders of the API Mental Health organization, which was started as a way to build a community for API identifying individuals to redefine the mental health conversation.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Franziska Trautmann on Glass Recycling
Franziska Trautmann is a 24-year-old from a small town in Louisiana. She co-founded Glass Half Full (GHF) in New Orleans to recycle glass into sand for disaster relief and coastal restoration. After growing up in Louisiana, a state that is losing land at an alarming rate and faces more and more intense hurricanes, Franziska became empowered to take action to address the climate crisis.
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Representation Matters: AAPI Creators You Should Follow
For too long the climate movement has not reflected the leadership of those who represent the communities most affected by environmental degradation. This is both a disservice to the movement as a whole and these people and communities. Representation matters. This AAPI Heritage Month, here are just a few AAPI climate creators that should be on everyone’s radars.
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ACE’s Action Teams Geared Up for Earth Day!
ACE supports a robust and energized Action Team Network nationwide that is dedicated to taking comprehensive action on the climate emergency. With more than 800,000 young advocates, our Action Team members have rallied together to plan a series of events on Earth Day nationwide. From protests to mountain climbing, our action teams got creative in celebrating Earth Day.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Talulah Juniper on Youth Voices in Politics
Talulah Juniper is a 17-year-old Junior at Sonoma Academy in Sonoma County. She started doing climate action work when she was in about 6th grade because it seemed to be the only logical step for her after hearing about the climate crisis and seeing the direct damage it had inflicted around them.
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Climate Ride for Climate Justice
Ever wondered what it’s like to go on a Climate Ride? Join us as Ash, ACE’s Director of Distributed Organizing takes you along for the ride and shares the impact of a Climate Ride.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Nithya Mooli on Combating Climate Misinformation
Nithya Mooli is a 16-years-old climate advocate based in Pennsylvania. She is currently in her third year at Great Valley High School where she is a member of both the Girl Up organization and ACE. Mooli describes Girl Up as “an amazing feminist activist club” at Great Valley High school and ACE as “the climate justice organization that we all love.” She is particularly interested in combating climate misinformation within the larger climate action movement. This is her story.
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ACE Campaign Alert: Let’s Talk About It: What’s Your Climate Truth
With the climate emergency threatening mental health along with the health of the planet, ACE is setting out to normalize conversations about climate anxiety and create a community of support for struggling young people. #Let’sTalkAboutIt and speak #OurClimateTruth together.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Bobby Zimmerman on Addressing Community Needs through Community Action
Bobby Zimmerman is a 16-year-old student activist located in Malvern, Pennsylvania (Southeastern PA). He works with his schools’ Environmental Enthusiasts club to clean up sites in their community which are heavily affected by pollution, fundraise for local organizations, like The Philadelphia Environmental Justice Initiative and national initiatives like Tree-Plenish, and educate his peers on pressing environmental issues. He is passionate about the power of local community action and the ways in which, together through collective action, we can all create profound change, starting at the grassroots level and growing to the national and international stage.
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Representation Matters: Women Creators to Follow
Representation matters. There is something so insatiably empowering in seeing people who have faced the same kinds of adversity that you have faced in life overcome their hardship and achieve success nevertheless. It is inspiring, comforting, and necessary to see and know these people because it gives us reassurance in times of doubt that we too can achieve success despite the adversities that we each face. Moreover, representation builds community and nothing is more powerful than what we can do when we join forces.
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