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350 is building a future that's just, prosperous, equitable and safe from the effects of the climate crisis.

We're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.

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The climate crisis is immense -- we must be daring and courageous in response. We embrace experiments and new solutions, recognizing that this crisis requires innovative ways of solving problems.

We work for justice

The fight against climate change is a fight for justice. People all over the world are feeling the impacts, but the people suffering most are the ones who have done the least to cause the problem.

The work we do - and the ways we do it - has to address that injustice. That means listening to the communities who are getting hit hardest, amplifying the voices that are being silenced, and following the leadership of the people on the frontlines of the crisis.

We care for and trust one another

We take care of ourselves and our communities, honor one another in our non-violent approach to this work, and share that spirit and learning with others.

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We are stronger when we collaborate

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350 is building a future that's just, prosperous, equitable and safe from the effects of the climate crisis. We're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.

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Kids Go Green: Waste Less | PBS LearningMedia

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Learn about kids who are helping the environment by reducing waste in their school. This Cyberchase-presented video features P.S. 110's Green Team who is helping their school recycle and compost more. P.S.

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Nine-year-old boy plants seed that yields 3 trillion trees

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Nine-year-old boy plants seed that yields 3 trillion trees

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NASA | Bob Silberg | 2016

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Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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Talk about mighty oaks growing from little acorns! A 9-year-old's homework assignment has led to the world's most comprehensive tree-counting project, which in turn stands to increase the value of upcoming missions from NASA and other space agencies.

Felix Finkbeiner was a fourth-grade student in Bavaria in 2007 when his teacher assigned a classroom presentation on climate change. His research brought him to the story of Wangari Maathai of Kenya, the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Among other accomplishments, she started a grassroots movement to counter deforestation and inspired the United Nations Environment Programme's Billion Tree Campaign.

Felix challenged his classmates-and ultimately, children throughout the world-to plant a million trees in each country, an idea that grew into an international youth organization called "Plant-for-the-Planet." In 2011, the UNEP turned its Billion Tree Campaign over to the organization Felix had started. By that time, the UN program had celebrated the planting of 12 billion trees.

Twelve billion trees is a lot, but how much does it increase the world's tree population? By a few percent? By half? No one knew. Enter Tom Crowther, then a postdoc at Yale.

"My friend worked for Plant-for-the-Planet," Crowther said. "The problem they were having was that they didn't know what contribution they were making because they didn't know how many trees there were to start with. So I planned to spend a couple of months digging around, doing a few quick calculations, just so they could have some idea of the total number, at least to within an order of magnitude."

The tree count snowballs

Tom Crowther, lead author of the global tree-density study published in Nature.

But that relatively modest task quickly grew in scope. "So many people were interested and I managed to gather so much more data than we initially expected, it just snowballed," Crowther said. The result was a study published last September in the prestigious journal Nature, which sparked headlines in the general press declaring that Earth is home to 3 trillion trees, nearly eight times as many as what Crowther's paper cites as the previous best estimate. That's using the American definition, by the way, in which one thousand billion equals one trillion.

Crowther and his colleagues generated the first global tree map of its kind by coupling some 430,000 ground-based measurements of forest density, from every continent except Antarctica, with data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) instruments onboard the Terra and Aqua satellites.

The team also found that on average, some 15 billion trees are lost each year while only 5 billion new trees are gained, a net loss of 10 billion trees per year. So if we want to maintain the current total of 3 trillion, we need to achieve some combination of planting a lot more trees and reducing the number that are lost.

There are some reasons to hope. Last month's climate conference in Paris gave forests the biggest shout-out they've gotten so far at one of those gatherings. And Plant-for-the-Planet's new goal is to plant a trillion trees.

Computer models and space missions

Not only has the Crowther study given a new perspective to tree-planting efforts, it stands to enhance a tool that scientists use to study forests and their interactions with climate. "Computer power and mathematical theory have advanced such that we can simulate the behavior of a forest as individual trees in the Ecosystem Demography (ED) Model," said Josh Fisher, a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I think this density number will help constrain that bit of modeling, which will help constrain our estimates on everything else that the large-scale models do." Constraining in this sense means tightening the limits and enabling the computer model to give more precise answers.

Doug Morton, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, agrees. "Models like ED simulate characteristics such as tree size, age and species. And it considers the competitive interactions between trees, their competition for water and light," he said. "This is one of several models in that class that could be constrained with density measurements. I think that is an exciting feature of the Crowther study."

Dave Schimel, who heads JPL's Carbon and Ecosystems Group, sees more perks on the horizon. "NASA and the Europeans are about to make an enormous investment in understanding forest structure worldwide," he said, "through the GEDI mission that's being developed for the International Space Station; the NISAR mission that's a partnership between NASA, Israel and India; and the Europeans' Biomass mission. In combination with estimates of density, they become even more valuable."

That's quite a forest of benefits to sprout from a fourth-grade homework assignment. Let's hope Felix got an "A."

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Nine-year-old boy plants seed that yields 3 trillion trees - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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Talk about mighty oaks growing from little acorns! A 9-year-old's homework assignment has led to the world's most comprehensive tree-counting project, which in turn stands to increase the value of upcoming missions from NASA and other space agencies. Felix Finkbeiner was a fourth-grade student in Bavaria in 2007 when his teacher assigned a classroom presentation on climate change.

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Young Voices for the Planet is proud to show the story of Jaysa, a 13-year old girl from Bridgeport, Connecticut who speaks out at public hearings and helps catalyze the opposition to the coal-fired power plant that is causing her asthma. She addresses environmental racism in her community and reflects on the power a single voice can have on creating positive change. Watch and see what happens!

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A is for Activist - Kindle edition by Nagara, Innosanto. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A is for Activist.

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Franck Prévot | Amazon

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Birchbark Books | Cecelia LaPointe | 2018 #OwnVoices

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Margarita Engle | 2017
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Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet

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Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet

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Harriet Rohmer  | 2009
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India climate activist Licypriya Kangujam on why she took a stand

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India climate activist Licypriya Kangujam on why she took a stand

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BBC | 2020

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She is only eight, but Licypriya Kangujam has already been campaigning for action to tackle climate change in her native India for two years.

The young activist has pushed for new laws to curb India's high pollution levels and wants climate change lessons to be mandatory in schools.

"I cry when I see children lose their parents or become homeless due to the dangers of disasters", she told the BBC.

But, she adds: "If you call me Greta of India, you are not covering my story."

Referring to Greta Thunberg, whose Fridays for Future school strike has grown into a global movement, Licypriya says that while she has much in common with the Swedish teenager, "I have my own identity, story".

"I already began a movement to fight climate change before Greta started," she said, adding that the two are "good friends" who "respect each other".

Listen: BBC OS talks to Licypriya Kangujam

Climate change: A really simple guide

The pair both attended the UN climate change conference, also known as COP25, in the Spanish capital Madrid in December.

Residing in India's north-eastern state of Manipur, Licypriya says she was a small child when she accompanied her father on fundraising events for victims of a powerful and deadly earthquake in Nepal in 2015.

But it was after attending a UN disaster conference in Mongolia with him in 2018 that she felt the need to get involved in activism.

"I got lots of inspiration and new knowledge from the people giving speeches. It was a life-changing event," she says.

"My heart feels sore for people who cannot help themselves when disaster strikes."

In response, Licypriya set up Child Movement, a body that aims to raise awareness "to protect the planet by tackling climate change and natural disasters".

Licypriya has also campaigned, often alone, for new laws to help address the issue of poor air quality across India.

She has even designed what she calls her Sukifu device - a symbolic survival kit for the future she created to emphasise the need to curb air pollution in the country.

In November, schools in India's capital, Delhi, were ordered to close by authorities who said air pollution in the city had reached "unbearable levels".

India's Supreme Court says world is 'laughing' at smog issues

Making climate change a compulsory subject to be taught from an early age in schools nationwide is one of Licypriya's main aims.

"Rajasthan has now become the first state in India" to add climate change to the school curriculum, she says.

She adds that the Indian state of Gujarat will be the second in the country to agree to educate children on the crisis.

Licypriya says she also feels inspired to continue fighting for government action to tackle climate change after witnessing others provide help to victims.

"I get very happy when I see rescuers saving children and their parents from danger."

But, she says, leaders need to stop dispelling the messages of activists.

"They are not taking any action, I want all leaders to do more - otherwise our future will die soon. They must act now, to save our planet and our future."

Read more on climate change:

Greta Thunberg trademarks 'Fridays for Future'

World's biggest iceberg makes a run for it

A visual guide to Australia's bushfire crisis

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'I cry when children lose parents to climate change'

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The Good Stuff

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We hear it every day from people who are concerned about what's happening to the environment: "What can I do? I'm just one person!" What if you were just one 8-year-old boy? Cole Rasenberger didn't let that stop him from taking on one of the world's largest fast-food chains over its packaging. In this episode of The Good Stuff, Annie learns how Cole rallied other kids at his school to join him in challenging KFC. And Danna Smith of the Dogwood Alliance tells us about the threat to Southern coastal forests from wasteful fast-food packaging.

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‎The Good Stuff: The Good Stuff - Episode 2: Kid vs. KFC on Apple Podcasts

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‎We hear it every day from people who are concerned about what's happening to the environment: "What can I do? I'm just one person!" What if you were just one 8-year-old boy? Cole Rasenberger didn't let that stop him from taking on one of the world's largest fast-food chains over its packaging.

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The Good Stuff

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Being a citizen isn't about where you were born or whether you have the right papers - it's acting on our responsibility to stand up for the planet and other people. In Part 1 of a special podcast, Annie talks to leading changemakers about citizenship - "the freedom to participate in power." Next month, Part 2: how citizens can make change.

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the good stuff — episode 5: how you show up in the world

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‎The Good Stuff: The Good Stuff - Episode 5: How You Show up in the World on Apple Podcasts

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‎Being a citizen isn't about where you were born or whether you have the right papers - it's acting on our responsibility to stand up for the planet and other people. In Part 1 of a special podcast, Annie talks to leading changemakers about citizenship - "the freedom to participate in power."

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UNICEF |  2020

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Young activist cleans up in Bangladesh | UNICEF

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Seventh Generation | 2019

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Global Climate Strike Sept 20th | Xiye Bastida-Patrick