Weekly Calls for Climate Youth Leaders
WHEN: Every Thursday 4-5:15 pm PST
WHAT: High School students gathering to share ideas, learn about climate and organizing, build community, and get inspired and empowered! Led by students. Each week students are assigned climate buddies based on your goals.
WHERE DO I SIGN UP? Fill out this form, and we’ll send you the zoom call info.
Most weekly calls include (see slides and key topics below):
- Check ins
- Grounding exercises
- Learning something new
- Bringing new people up to speed
- Creating weekly goals for ourselves and checking in on our progress
- Taking action!
Resources From Past Weeks:
Simona Coayla-Duba opened up our call for the second week with a mindfulness session where we were guided through a reflective body scan. Then, our guest speaker Tyler Valdes provided us with an extremely insightful segment on finding our purposes & intersecting them with our future career goals!
Here are some wonderful resources provided at today’s call:
- Thara Bening’s presentation on her work fighting against plastic pollution in Indonesia
- A Brief History of Plastic
- The Life Cycle of a Plastic Bottle
- The Plastic Bag Diet
- What is JEDI?
- The Pillars of Climate Justice
- What is Intersectionality?
- How does intersectionality affect climate justice?
- Why is Anti-Racism so important to our work?
- Some JEDI Resources
- create our own pieces of art focusing on the climate crisis!
- examples of art made by Y4Cers!
- Youth v. Oil + Public Comments
- Wellness and eco-anxiety
- origins of Black History Month and spotlighting some Black environmentalists
- addressing exclusion of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled individuals in the climate movement
- resilience exercise
- Valentine’s Day environmental impacts
- including the fueling it provides to the palm oil industry
- Join one (or both) of the planning teams for our Eco-Club Summit and our Youth4Climate Action Summit
- Fill out this Google Form
November 12, 2020
- Food and the Environment
- Vegan Dishes
- Y4C Impact on the Election by Communications Team
- Biden's Climate Plan and Election Debrief
- Action
- Monica Montgomery for San Diego City Council President
- Resilience Activity
November 5, 2020
- California Climate Change Scoping Plan by Education and Outreach
- Tactile Activity
- Group Breakouts Session
- Weekly Action
October 29, 2020
- CA Climate Action Presentation by Actions Team
- Weekly Action
October 22, 2020
- October 24th: Socially distanced walkout for voting awareness
- October 24th: Youth Voting Party
- Resilience Exercise:
- Paper Star
- October 26th: Purple Mountains Movie Screening
October 15, 2020
- Strategic Campaigns Team: Upcoming campaigns to raise awareness and fight against fracking.
- October 24th: Socially distanced walkout for voting awareness
October 8, 2020
- Vote for Climate
- Elections: Educating yourself and others
- Weekly Action
October 1, 2020
- Green New Deal Explained
- Avoiding Burnout
- Pre-Registration Party (10/6)
- Registration Party (10/6)
- Voting Party (10/24)
September 17, 2020
- Climate Buddies
- Weekly Action
- Voting Registration Art Build (9/22)
- Kick-off (9/24)
September 10, 2020
- Vision Reflection
- Climate Action Recap
August 27, 2020
- Overarching Goals
- Y4C Programs
- Actions for Fall
- Workshop: Sharing your story/making promotional videos with Izzy
- Chasing Ice reflection
- Cinema Club
- This weeks documentary: Before the Flood
- “Artivism” and the Green New Deal by Audrey
- Cinema Club
- This weeks documentary: Chasing Ice
- Youth Ocean Conservation Webinar on May 23, 2020 by Izzy
- Reflection on A Plastic Ocean
- Cinema Club
- This weeks documentary: Chasing Coral
- Sharing student resources
- Ocean conservation and plastic pollution by Kate
- Cinema Club
- This weeks documentary: A Plastic Ocean
- Journaling session by Alexa
- Sharing favorite resources
- Plan climate learning topics for future meetings
- Find out what YOU want out of these calls
- Discuss avenues of climate action in this time