Climate Litigation Brought by Youth 

Litigation is an important act of climate advocacy with mixed results in Canada and elsewhere.  Youth legal action over Ontario government’s climate targets A group of young Canadians is challenging Ontario’s roll back of relatively progressive climate targets.  https://environmentjournal.ca/nextgen-perspectives-youth-legal-action-over-ontario-governments-climate-inaction/ A successful litigation by American youth A group of 16 American youth won a climate case … Read more

Youth-Led Seedling Sales

This month, we continue our focus on opportunities for youth engagement in Climate Action and successful youth-led organizations. Green Venture Youth-Led Seedling Sales May 11, 2024:10am-2pm  At Laidlaw United Church during SEW HUNGRY on Ottawa Street Address: 155 Ottawa Street North Find our table of veggie and herb seedlings, along with our Alley Planting and … Read more

Book Recommendation for May

  How to Change Everything: A Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein with Rebecca Stefoff. Recommended for ages 9 to 12. Naomi Klein’s eighth book is her first written specifically for young readers, adapting over twenty years of reporting and research on climate change and the movements that … Read more

Youth and Climate Action

During the month of May, we will focus on opportunities for youth engagement in Climate Action and successful youth-led organizations. An organization by and for youth – Inspiring Hope for Climate Action  The ability to hold climate anxiety and hope for the future has challenged today’s youth as they create a greener, kinder planet. This … Read more