Youth Created Media on the Climate Crisis
Youth Created Media on the Climate Crisis

Author: Richard Beach

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1000903095

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This timely book provides effective methods and authentic examples of teaching about climate change through digital and multimodal media production in the English Language Arts classroom. The chapters in this edited volume demonstrate the benefits of addressing climate change in the classroom through innovative media production and cover a range of different types of media, including video/digital storytelling, social media, art, music, and writing, with rich resources for instruction in every chapter. Through the engaging ideas and strategies, the contributors equip educators with the critical tools for supporting students’ media production. In so doing, they offer new perspectives on how students can employ media and production techniques to critique the status quo, call for change, and acquire new literacy skills. As the effects of the climate crisis become increasingly visible to the youth population, this book helps foster and support youth agency and activism. Youth Media Creation on the Climate Change Crisis: Hear Our Voices is a necessary text for students, preservice teachers, and educators in literacy education, media studies, social and environmental studies, and STEM education. The eBook+ version of the text features embedded audio and video components as well as interactive links to reflect the multimodal nature of students’ work, spotlighting how youth media production supports the development of students’ critical literacy skills and shapes their voices and identities.

Speaking Youth to Power
Speaking Youth to Power

Author: Mark Terry

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 3031142985

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This book examines the methods and approaches currently being taken by the global community of youth in influencing environmental policymakers of the United Nations. It is divided into two sections: The Groundswell Approach, exploring the use of social media and mass gatherings aimed at raising public awareness of the issue of climate change; and The Direct Approach, a participatory methodology that encourages collaboration directly with the policymaker and youth in the discussions and creation of progressive climate policy for the world. The book also delivers a detailed analysis of the United Nations’ only database of youth-produced documentary films related to climate change research, impacts, and proposed solutions: the Youth Climate Report, arguing that film is a powerful and effective communications tool for the policymaker. The book proposes two frameworks and explores their in-field applications for successful youth climate activism.

Climate Change and Youth
Climate Change and Youth

Author: Linda Goldman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-05-10

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1000570797

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Climate Change and Youth is a pioneering book that opens the door to understanding the profound impact climate change has on the mental health of today’s young people. Chapters provide age-appropriate language for a meaningful dialogue and resources for acknowledging children’s voices, separating fact from fiction about environmental issues, encouraging participation in activism, creating tools to reduce stress, and highlighting inspirational role models and organizations for action. The book includes firsthand examples, research, children’s work, interviews, and terminology. It also shares age-appropriate resources and websites relating to climate change and challenges. Filling a large void in the literature on this topic, this essential resource offers techniques and tools that professionals and caring adults can use to address the stresses associated with climate change and offer strategies for hope, resilience, and action.

Youth to Power
Youth to Power

Author: Jamie Margolin

Publisher: Hachette Go

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0738246670

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"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any age who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations." --- Former Vice President Al Gore Climate change activist and Zero Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people. The 1963 Children's March. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common?They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most how powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to vote or hold positions of power to change the world. In Youth to Power, Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice on writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing social and traditional media to spread a message, and sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give guidance on handling backlash, keeping your mental health a priority, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of. Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective, healthy, intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say, and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice.

How to Change Everything
How to Change Everything

Author: Naomi Klein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1534474536

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Temperatures are rising all over the world, and this book provides young readers with clear information about how our planet is changing, with inspiration, ideas, and tools for taking action on the issues.

Teaching Climate Change to Children
Teaching Climate Change to Children

Author: Rebecca Woodard

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0807769789

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"Replete with classroom examples, this book demonstrates that young children (pre-K-6) are capable of learning about climate change; that climate change and social justice are inextricable from each other; and that literacy instruction is well-suited to this work. The authors take an emotionally affirming stance and examine the potential of incorporating arts-based methods"--

The Youth Climate Uprising
The Youth Climate Uprising

Author: David Fopp

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2024-06-30

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 3732870316

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Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole story: One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. Scientist David Fopp spent 250 Fridays with the newly formed grassroots movements. Together with activists Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, he offers an insider perspective on how scientists and activists can fight for a just and sustainable global society. The volume also offers both an introduction to ecophilosophy and a unified science of democracy in times of interdependent crises. How can research in all disciplines - from (drama) education and economics to psychology - help with this struggle? And how can we all fight the climate crisis by transforming and deepening democracy?

Tomorrow Is Too Late
Tomorrow Is Too Late

Author: Grace Maddrell

Publisher: Black Spot Books

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1911648330

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In Tomorrow Is Too Late, Grace Maddrell collects testimonies of activism and hope from young climate strikers, from Brazil and Burundi to Pakistan and Palestine. These youth activists are experiencing the reality of the climate crisis, including typhoons, drought, flood, fire, crop failure, and ecological degradation, and are all engaged in the struggle to bring these issues to the centre of the world stage. Their strength and determination show the urgency of their cause, and their understanding that the generations above them have failed to safeguard their environment. With contributors aged between eight and twenty-five, this is an inspiring collection of essays from the most vital generation of voices in the global struggle for climate justice, and offers a manifesto for how you can engage, educate, and inspire change for a more hopeful future.

Mass Media and Climate Change Perceptions Among Youth
Mass Media and Climate Change Perceptions Among Youth

Author: S. Sarada

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781646509966

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Climate Change is a serious problem worldwide. The Earth is warming up and the causes range from natural to man-made. Industrial emissions, emissions from vehicles and burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, etc. are affecting the energy balance of Earth, causing drastic changes in climate. Climate Change has a severe impact on several facets of our day to day lives, livelihoods, agriculture and food security, biodiversity and ecosystems, water resources, health, human settlements and migration patterns, transport and energy. The effectiveness with which society responds to climate change depends on how well the issue is understood by individual citizens. Mass media plays an essential role in informing the public, raising awareness and understanding of science issues and promoting positive action. The media is a strategic partner in the area of climate information dissemination, warning, adaptation and mitigation. Very few people have access to scientific literature on this topic, they generally rely upon media presentations of climate change. India has a very large percentage of the youth population in the world. Youth can play a critical role in climate change. They are the segment of population that will take climate change mitigation efforts forward for they are the ones who will be most affected by climate change in the future. The present study explores the level of awareness of climate change among the youth, their level of engagement and an analysis of the effect of mass media and other information sources in shaping the youth's opinions about climate change. It examines if information obtained from mass media and other sources has a role to play in the adoption of environmentally sensitive behavior among youth. This piece of research can be utilized by researchers and academicians of environmental studies, bio-diversity, climate change studies and policymakers in the area of mass media and climate change.

Youth Climate Courts
Youth Climate Courts

Author: Thomas A. Kerns

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 1000508811

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This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens and twenties can use to compel their local city or county government to live up to its human rights obligations, formally acknowledge the climate crisis, and take major steps to address it. Tom Kerns shows how youth climate leaders can form their own local Youth Climate Court, with youth judges, youth prosecuting attorneys, and youth jury members, and put their local city or county government on trial for not meeting its human rights obligations. Kerns describes how a Youth Climate Court works, how to start one, what human rights are, what they require of local governments, and what governmental changes a Youth Climate Court can realistically hope to accomplish. The book offers young activists a brand new, user-friendly, cost-free, barrier-free, powerful tool for forcing local governments to come to terms with their obligation to protect the rights of their citizens with respect to the climate crisis. This book offers a unique new tool to young climate activists hungry for genuinely effective ways to directly move governments to aggressively address the climate crisis.