Art, the Environment, and Teaching – Isabella Pardales – reflection writing and curriculum (above)
The Post That Started It All – Ivy Chen – blog post
I’m A Vegetarian Because I Hate Contradictions – Ivy Chen – blog post
Behind Closed Doors: Sit-In Negotiations and Penn’s Blatant Hypocrisy – Zachary Rissman – opinion editorial in university newspaper
Displacement: What is at Stake – Amanda Miles – video
An Open Letter to the People and Governments of the World – Zachary Rissman – Indivisible blog
One Fork At A Time – Isabella Pardales – mini-documentary
In Case You Were Wondering: Here is the Behind the Scenes of the CSSC Power Shift Convergence – Amanda Miles – blog post reflection
Sustainable Development Goal: Water and Sanitation in the Pacific Islands – Amanda Miles – Infographic
The Millennial Malaise – Jamie Tyberg – canvas bags (above)
Here’s why so many young people are joining the climate march – Morissa Zuckerman – opinion editorial
What if we told you? – Christopher Round – protest poster
Earth Day: Hawaiian Chant and Story Telling – Keoni DeFranco – video of traditional Hawaiian oli (chant)
Meet the globetrotting cyclist collecting 1,001 climate change stories – Devi Lockwood – article in The Guardian
An Invitation to Change Everything – Alex Ortiz – personal blog
Indigeneity & Sustainability – Michael Charles – video story (above)
Why I Do What I Do – Kate Weiner – personal essay, Loam Magazine
When Green Means White: Rethinking Growth in Detroit – Bean Crane – creative nonfiction essay
Wisdom of Youth (Conversation on Climate Change) – Troy Robertson – voice memo
A Really Really Free Market on Earth Day: Thoughts on Value, Labor and Material Culture in Late Capitalism – Amelia Diehl – opinion editorial
Waking Up at the End of the World – Jonathan Kirsch – blog, The Millennial Times
Birds and Bees – Lucia Whalen – musical composition (above)
How One Activist Is Using A Networking App To Fight Climate Change – Jonathan Kirsch – blog post
I’m a Millennial: Climate Change – Jonathan Kirsch – video
The People’s Climate Movement and why it’s more about the “people” than the “climate” – Zachary Rissman – opinion editorial in university newspaper
Steeped: Tea, Climate Change and the Groundedness of Blue – Amelia Diehl – personal essay
The Quest for Climate Justice – Joshua Nodiff – interactive essay
My Climate Story – Karrie Quirin – interview on Climate Stories podcast (above)
‘They asked me to write a poem to save the world’ – Annabelle Acton-Bond – blog post
Food Insecurity: A Social Construct or a Problem? – Emma Keeling – essay
Waiting for Change – Emma Keeling – poetry
National Parks: A Double Life – Emma Keeling – essay
Native Americans: National Parks to Pipelines – Emma Keeling – essay
Compassion in Action: and the Spiritual Ecology of Translating Sky Dragons into Power Grids – Kyle Lemle – article in Kosmos Journal
Portrait of Peaceful Resistance – Joyce Zhou – watercolor painting (above)
Your Place or Mine? – Georgia Reid – storymap
Environmentalism in the #Succulent Generation – Mara Moss – opinion editorial
Analyzing the Instrumentalization of Affect of American Think Tank Websites – Michaela Mujica-Steiner – academic research
Mixed Race in the Climate Justice Movement – Eva Malis – article in Torrey House Press
Spring STEM Camp – Joyce Zhou – volunteer service project/curriculum
Great Turning | Thrive Choir – Kyle Lemle – song and accompanying street choir (above)
Youth Impact Panel at Worlds Largest Earth Day Event – Cade Emory Terada – panel speaker (video)
Standing Rock, Moahdak Do’ag, and the Pervasiveness of Cultural Warfare – Kayla DeVault – blogpost
Words Unglued – Skylar Henry – blogpost and artwork
No More Dead Zones: My Journey to the Fight for Climate Justice – Allie Rosenbluth – blogpost
Resource Equity Now! – Lena Greenberg – video of public art project
Cultivating Compassion in the Climate Movement – Kate Weiner – essay in Loam Magazine
Passing the Test: Koro, Kiribati, Climate Change – Ben Walker – audio essay
Spring Corrosion – Joyce Zhou – artwork
Southern Oregon People’s Climate March – Allie Rosenbluth – art, program, graphic design (above)
Climate justice activism: ‘To call a place home’ – Aly Tharp – article
People’s Climate Candidates Training Speech – Varshini Prakash – speech (at 17:50)
Sustainable America Series – Jonathan Kirsh – series of 6 opinion editorials
Untitled (Another Gulf is Possible) – Aly Tharp – spoken word poetry
Student Environmental Resource Center – Eva Malis – zine
Oregon Youth Are Taking on the Climate Crisis – Allie Rosenbluth – blog post
COP23 Creative Challenge vs. Trump’s Paris Agreement Decision – Allie Rosenbluth and Jon Kirsch, plus over 600 other youth (and counting!) – blog post and letter to Trump (above)
Climate Insurgency: The Final Stage – Francisco Ferreyra – song
Environmental Activism Drives YHS Senior – Isabella Pardales – article in local paper
Where Roots Run Deep – Maia Winkler – article coming to FLURT Magazine
6 Poems for Climate Justice y la Resistencia – Francisco Ferreyra – poetry
Power To The People – Joshua Nodiff – speech recording
Graves of Changing Skies – Morissa Zuckerman – poem
Where We Are – Anya Gleizer – opinion article
Where is the Heart in the Climate Justice Movement? Where is the music? – Kyle Lemle – editorial
Climate Catastrophe and the Legacy of UC Students – Francisco Ferreyra – opinion editorial
My Mother is Brown / People’s Climate March 2017 – Eva Malis – artwork (above)
In the Climate Movement, Making a New America – Charlie Jiang – essay
BEYOND AMERICA & THE PARIS AGREEMENT: Eco-Cultural Regeneration as Climate Justice – Kyle Lemle – blog post
Dancing with this Delicate Earth – Michaela Mujica-Steiner – poetry and self portraits
Fermi’s Paradox Amidst a Planetary Endgame – Mara Moss – blog post and photography
Updated and Upgraded: Improving Energy Efficiency in Athens-Clarke County – Shreya Ganeshan – policy proposal
Mother Earth: Model, Measure, Mentor – Michael Charles – blog post
Why Me, Why This – Joyce Zhou – personal essay
Storytelling is Our Ancestral Medicine – Niria Alicia – essay
A Line by Line Analysis of this List of Garbage Reasons Provided by the White House for Leaving the Paris Climate Agreement – Christopher Round – opinion editorial
Why I Fight for Climate Justice – Jack Meyer – video
Climate Change Sucks – Sofia Ramcke and Jack Meyer – song
THE FUTURE IS OURS – Will Lawrence – poem
The Five Stages of Climate Grief – Susan Davidson – artwork (above)
Divest UPenn Sit-In – Zachary Rissman – NowThis video interview
A Very Long Conversation – Rainey Aberle – video poetry
Ripe for Transformation – Kate Weiner – personal essay, Loam Magazine
Patient Name: Mother Earth – Karrie Quirin – poem in Climate Justice Poetry Open Mic Night
In defense of life itself: What I learned from indigenous women in Guatemala – Rebecca Haydu – WhyHunger blog and photo essay
Sweet Home, Louisiana – Madelyn Smith – spoken word poetry
The Cracks are Where the Light Shines Through – Michaela Mujica-Steiner – short story
LatinX and the Climate Justice Movement: Something New to the Table – Andrea Schmid – podcast (above)
Over and Around – Susan Davidson – personal reflection, blog post
Arctic Youth Have Solutions – Cade Emory Terada – quoted tweet from U.S. Embassy in Finland
Why I Fight – Annemarie Manley – poetry and photography
Louisiana Gone – Madelyn Smith – photography book (photo featured above)
Letter to the Children I Will Not Have – Astrian Horsburgh – poetry and video
Healthy Ecosystem Healthy ME/Why I Fight – Sofia Ramcke – personal essay
Where does it come from and where does it go? – Lena Greenberg – video (above)
San Francisco March for Science – Ivy Chen – blog post
Reflection on the People’s Climate March – Annemarie Manley – blog post
Ranchers and Tribes Unite Once Again to Fight Keystone XL – Devi Lockwood – article in YES! Magazine
Resisting Capitalism: the Coloring Book – Bean Crane – zine and coloring book
Write Your Reps – Giuliana Viglione – series of outreach postcards (above)
How Can Design Be Used To Create A More Sustainable Future? – Isabella Pardales – artwork
What Could a March do for the Climate Movement? – Annemarie Manley – blog post
Building Resilience – Danielle Neighbour – white paper
Alaska Youth for Environmental Action – Cade Emory Twrada – fundraising video (above)
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for – Espoir DelMain – blog post on Climate Generation
Fleur de lis Litter Letter – Karrie Quirin – collaborative artwork
Climate Marches Are Useful, But Real Work Has to Follow – Isabella Pardales – letter to the editor
Sustainability minor? Career path? What I’m most excited about? – Ivy Chen – blog post
Erasure – Joyce Zhou – oil painting
Innovation versus Desecration: A Look at the Up-versus-Downstream – Amanda Miles – research essay
Latrobe Valley: Jobs, Hope and a Just Transition – Bean Crane – podcast (below)
Women in Resistance – Rebecca Haydu – photo essay
The Essential Role of Art in the Building of a Movement – Lucia Whalen – blog post
“Clean This Place, Don’t Displace”: Activists Battle for Environmental Justice in Washington, DC – Devi Lockwood – article in Truthout
Still Life – Joyce Zhou – poetry
Option vs. Option – Susan Davidson – artwork
Dionysus : Tristeria, Old | New Myths and Man’s Battle against Nature – Anya Gleizer – painting, sculpture, performance (above)
Protect Moadag Thoag: Arizona DOT and Federal Highways Threaten Sacred Mountain with Loop 202 Proposal – Kayla DeVault – call-to-action article
After This Long Night, A New Day Will Come – Michaela Mujica-Steiner – persuasive essay
Why we march for climate, jobs and justice // Por qué marchamos por el clima, trabajos y justicia – Allie Rosenbluth – opinion editorial
Why the Fossil Fuel Divestment Still Matters – Christopher Round – blog post
Earth Day Community Cleanup – Joyce Zhou – community volunteer event
What’s this all about – Bean Crane – The Re-Everything Project
We Must Disobey, Civilly – Zachary Rissman – blog post
The Solar (dis)Incentive – Sofia Ramcke – blog post
#EnvironmentalismSoWhite – Eva Malis – photo story project (above)
Climate justice demands active solidarity – Ben Goloff – blog post
What does civil disobedience mean to me? An Essay for the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of Student Conduct – Gavriela Reiter – personal story and photo essay
Philadelphia Energy Hub Transition – Gavriela Reiter – story map
Coconuts and Climate Refugees – Ben Walker – audio lecture
The Global Citizen Toolbox I Carry – Espoir DelMain – photo essay
dapl – Giselle Hart – poetry
Mad World – Michaela Mujica-Steiner – dance (above)
Carbon Nullius: The Alberta Agenda – Maia Winkler – opinion editorial
No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police at the March for Science – Aly Tharp – blog post
An Ode to Forces of Nature – Espoir DelMain – blog post
Why Pulling Out of the Paris Accord is Misguided and Uneconomical – Harrison Beck – article in DailyKos
Climate Change: a feminist issue – Devi Lockwood – essay in Women’s Media Center
Just Eat It: Film Screening – Maia Winkler – public film screening
Environmentalism While Brown: SCOPES, “EJ”, and Life as a Student of Color in the Environmental Movement – Andrea Schmid – opinion editorial
Coastal Lifeblood – Maia Winkler – writing and video
Close to Home – Christopher Round – article in Earth Island Journal
Why I joined Sunrise: Our jobs, our air, our home – Victoria Fernandez – painting and essay (above)
Spotlight: Francisco Ferreyra on EJ, Organizing, and Collective Liberation – Francisco Ferreyra – interview
Prescribed Burning – Joyce Zhou – poem
The Heart of the Homeland – Skylar Henry – travel blog
Finding Breath in Resistance – Maia Wikler – personal essay
Daily Blog Challenge – Amy Meyers – blog posts
We are the Guardians – Taylor Schad – blog post
By Exiting Paris, Trump Opened a Door for Us – Charlie Jiang – blog post
My Climate Movement Story: Fracking, and Environmental Legislation – Amy Meyers – blog post
Keep Families Together – Niria Alicia – banner (above)
From Abu Dhabi to the District of Columbia: Why I Engage in the Movements for Climate Justice – Julia Gifferty – video story
Para El Pueblo: Racismo Ambiental en Oxnard, CA – Francisco Ferreyra – essay
Climate MOVEMENT – Annabelle Acton-Bond – blog post
Mother Nature and our Home Earth – Valentin Camano – poetry
I’m not an environmentalist, I’m human – Ivy Chen – blog post
Environmentalists might be sabotaging the planet – Jack Meyer – blog post
Why a Creative Challenge?
We believe that people understand and shape our world through stories, and that as young people we have significant power in our ability to build a different story for the world we live in – one that is free from systemic injustice and supports thriving ecosystems. That’s why our application process for our youth delegation to COP23, the 2017 UN Climate Negotiations, was a creative storytelling challenge to write op-eds and generate creative media. Last year’s COP22 Delegation was selected in this format, and we found it very successful in both forming the team we want and building the youth climate movement across the country. For two months the Challenge window was open. From all corners of the country, this is what we received.