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Speech winner addresses climate change in the Pacific 

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16-year-old Aorere College student Aigagalefili Fepulea’i-Tapua’i addressed the effects of climate change on the Pacific Islands in her winning speech at Storytellers.

She plans to become an environmental engineer and to continue advocating for her communities.

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Aigagalefili Fepulea’i Tapua’i - Waiting Water- 1st Place

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Documentary about 4 of the climate strike organisers available on TV+.

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Documentary about 4 of the climate strike organisers available on TV+.

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A space to share ideas with other teachers

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A space to share ideas with other teachers

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How does taking part in the School Strike 4 Climate connect with the curriculum?

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How does taking part in the School Strike 4 Climate connect with the curriculum?

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Wondering what you should think about students spending their time supporting the #SchoolsStrike4Climate? Just letting you know what they are doing is completely aligned with the New Zealand Curriculum and their learning needs - here's a short thread about how: @schoolstrike4c1

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Wondering what you should think about students spending their time supporting the #SchoolsStrike4Climate? Just letting you know what they are doing is completely aligned with the New Zealand Curriculum and their learning needs - here's a short thread about how: @schoolstrike4c1

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Wondering what you should think about students spending their time supporting the #SchoolsStrike4Climate? Just letting you know what they are doing is completely aligned with the New Zealand Curriculum and their learning needs - here's a short thread about how: @schoolstrike4c1
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School Strike 4 Climate NZ. 9,979 次赞 · 2 人在谈论. Join us on the streets on the 9th of April 2021, in demanding real, meaningful climate action from our Government ��

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This is serious, we're serious and we care. Climate change is affecting us here and now and the repercussions of inaction become greater with everyday we... | By School Strike 4 Climate NZ | Facebook

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It's Movin' March! This great resource is full of ways to support learning and action - and consider how our citizenship can contribute to a better world.

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While many areas of the curriculum are relevant to climate activism, I believe the Key Competenciesoffer a particularly helpful lens through which students can think about what climate activists actually do and how they do it.

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Greta has sparked a new wave of youth climate activism with her school strike and insistence that everyone needs to take responsibility.  "You cannot leave the responsibility to individuals, politicians, the market or other parts of the world to take. This has to include everything and everyone.”

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School strike for climate - save the world by changing the rules | Greta Thunberg | TEDxStockholm

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Thousands of schoolchildren across Australia walked out of class on Fridayto demand action by the federal government on climate change.

The "Strike 4 Climate Action", inspired by 15-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg, brought together children in capital cities and 20 regional centres such as Ballarat, Newcastle, Townsville and Cairns. A large protest was also held in Hobart on Thursday.

More than a thousand primary and secondary students filled Sydney's Martin Place and students in Melbourne marched through the streets, bringing traffic to a standstill.

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, had earlier this week urged students this week not to take part and told them to be "less activist".

On Friday, the resources minister Matt Canavan said he would prefer students to learn about mining and science. "These are the type of things that excite young children and we should be great at it as a nation," he told 2GB radio. "The best thing you'll learn about going to a protest is how to join the dole queue."

In Sydney, student Jean Hinchliffe, 14, took to the stage and told her fellow students the protest was just getting started. "This is our first strike," she said. "Our first action. And it is just the beginning. And we'll keep doing it until something is done."

Lucie Atkin-Bolton, 11, the school captain of Forest Lodge public school, said she had been let down by politicians.

"I wish I didn't have to be here today," she said. "I'm the school captain at my primary school. We've been taught what it means to be a leader. You have to think about other people.

"When kids make a mess, adults tell us to clean it up and that's fair. But when our leaders make a mess, they're leaving it to us to clean up."

Any mention of the prime minister brought boos from the crowd, as student after student criticised his comments. "If Scott Morrison wants children to stop acting like a parliament, then maybe the parliament should stop acting like children," Manjot Kaur, 17, from Ravenswood school said.

The noise was deafening as students waved homemade signs, chanted and sang along to a rendition of Stand By Me. Hinchchliffe called Morrison's electorate office, and encouraged students to call the prime minister every day for the next week.

Freya, 13, and Bee, 14, from Sydney Girls high school, said they felt like their voices were being heard. "Because we don't have a vote in the elections, it sometimes feels like you're silent," Freya said.

Bee added: "You can influence something. Now it actually feels like I am making a difference about something I believe in.

"I think they are misjudging who we are," Freya said. "They are underestimating us, You can look around and see how many people are here."

Elly, 14, was there with her sister Aidan, 10, and said they hadn't expected so many students to turn up. "I wasn't expecting this many," she said. "I thought it would be small. It's so good. I didn't know many people coming from my school, but it's so cool to have everyone else here."

Earlier in the week, hundreds of students from Canberra lined up outside Parliament House, waited on the lawns and met MPs from the Greens and Labor as well as independents.

The Canberra students voiced these concerns in a series of sit-down meetings with the federal Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, Labor MPs Ged Kearney and Julie Owens, Greens senator Jordon Steele-John and Centre Alliance MP Rebekha Sharkie.

On Tuesday, the Senate also approved a motion to support the students, moved by Steele-John and fellow Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi. Other students around the world have also posted messages of support on social media.

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Climate change strike: thousands of school students protest across Australia

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Thousands of schoolchildren across Australia walked out of class on Fridayto demand action by the federal government on climate change. The "Strike 4 Climate Action", inspired by 15-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg, brought together children in capital cities and 20 regional centres such as Ballarat, Newcastle, Townsville and Cairns.

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Raven Maeder and Sophie Handford explain what School Strike is all about.

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New Zealand has just been served notice - from TVNZ breakfast Friday 15th February 2019 | By Get Up Stand Up | Facebook

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Indigenous Youth Delegation from Aotearoa goes to UN Climate Change talks

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For the first time ever an Indigenous Youth Delegation from New Zealand is heading to the 2017 Conference of Parties UN Climate Talks in Germany where they hope to present issues of climate change relating specifically to Māori and Pacifica.

Maia Ratana (Te Arawa, Taranaki, Ngāti Raukawa) says, "We're all aware of the state of our waterways in Aotearoa, at least 60% of our waterways are unswimmable now."

Noah Te Rama Thomas Pene (Te Arawa, Ngāti Whātua) says, "Islands that are sinking, when people are displaced around the Pacific, they move from their island and they join a certain system that requires them to purchase their food instead of growing it."

Ratana says, "Creating innovation for the future, so people are going to keep consuming but how can we do that in a thoughtful way."

They are members of the Te Ara Whatu, a group of Māori and Pasifika based in Aotearoa who is looking at climate change issues through an indigenous lens.

"If we manage to influence the policy-making that happens while we are there not just for Māori and Pacific but for Indigenous People around the world to ensure that they are considering Indigenous People in these talks and in these platforms."

The first Indigenous Youth Delegation from New Zealand, they're heading to the 2017 UN Climate Talks (COP23).

"Instead of being represented by the New Zealand Govt. talking on things like climate change that affect the indigenous population," says Pene.

Highlighting objectives Ratana says, "For one, network with other tangata whenua (Indigenous People) from around the globe. There will be all sorts of people from 195 different countries. Also, to try and encourage and influence policy within the negotiations."

Maia wants to leave a healthier world for her descendants.

"So how do we encourage and influence whānau, corporations, friends, businesses to try and improve that and bring that back so that our tamariki (children) and their tamariki get to live in a world that's as beautiful as ours."

The talks will take place from 6 to 17 November in Bonn, Germany.

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bringing young people's voices to the forefront as they take a case to the US courts to secure the right to a safe and stable climate.

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Our Children's Trust partnered with the international human rights organization WITNESS and Montana State University's Master's in Science and Natural History Filmmaking, to produce 11 short documentaries featuring the brave young people leading the effort to secure the legal right to a stable climate and healthy atmosphere.
Click here for media interviews and outside documentaries featuring the youth plaintiffs.

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Our Children's Trust partnered with the international human rights organization WITNESS and Montana State University's Master's in Science and Natural History Filmmaking, to produce 11 short documentaries featuring the brave young people leading the effort to secure the legal right to a stable climate and healthy atmosphere.

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Support students to participate in a local school strike event

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Local events can be found on the School Strike 4 Climate NZ facebook page.

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Russell School pupils Kira Kammerer, aged 12, Evie Trotter, 9 and Lia Kammerer, 12

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Russell School pupils Kira Kammerer, aged 12, Evie Trotter, 9 and Lia Kammerer, 12

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''We are striking from school to tell our politicians to take our futures seriously and treat climate change for what it is - a crisis. They can show us that they care by taking urgent action to move New Zealand beyond fossil fuels and get the job done of moving us to 100 per cent renewable energy for all.''

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Northern Advocate

Many of today's students see climate change as their ''Nuclear Free moment" and three Northland schoolgirls have organised their fellow pupils to strike from school for the day to protest about the lack of international action on the issue.

Russell School pupils Kira Kammerer, aged 12, Evie Trotter, 9 and Lia Kammerer, 12, were inspired by an international movement of schoolchildren striking to draw attention to climate change, which will affect young people the most into the future.

At least 15 other schools from elsewhere around New Zealand are taking part in School Strike 4 Climate NZ protest and the three girls hope more Northland pupils will take part too.

"We are striking from Russell school on March 15 for the climate, we're going to meet at the school swimming pool gate at 8.45am and then walk down to the village green next to the Russell town hall. We will strike there for the whole school day,'' Evie said.

''We are striking from school to tell our politicians to take our futures seriously and treat climate change for what it is - a crisis. They can show us that they care by taking urgent action to move New Zealand beyond fossil fuels and get the job done of moving us to 100 per cent renewable energy for all.''

So far they have about 23 children striking with them, and hopefully getting some more students involved in the next couple of weeks.

''We are also hoping lots of the community will strike with us. We are doing this because we care about the earth, and we want the government to care and do as much as they can too.''

The campaign is student-led.

''Climate change is one of the biggest problems facing the world and it isn't being addressed quickly enough. In New Zealand, education is viewed as immensely important, and a key way to make a difference in the world,'' the protest website says.

''But simply going to school isn't doing anything about climate change. And it doesn't seem that our politicians are doing anything, or at least not enough, about climate change either. If this is 'our generation's Nuclear Free moment' it's time to start acting like it.
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''So, as our contribution to the changes we want to see, we are striking from school. We are temporarily sacrificing our educations in order to save our futures.''

Check out which school are striking here:
https://www.facebook.com/schoolstrike4climatenz/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARC4U-92gjchWfVBJ3j9D5QG3F83KOX6IxcYHuKqTLVNVnTIN5dJe9M1vlJYRg9wGeFSpD9TfqKA09et&hc_ref=ARQsO-lp8MLMvIzHhkOPjDInr9sztkcwfiaIKKwxJnlG92g7ntfRU-DOenAxl-ikHOA&fref=nf

And what they want from Government here:
https://www.schoolstrike4climatenz.com/?fbclid=IwAR1B1AWmvMveWqBacnFg9NrUPTojsfFVxQTp4q7UcpdwotFsLu_n5jH99Lc

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Three Northland schoolgirls organise strike to protest climate change

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Northern Advocate Many of today's students see climate change as their ''Nuclear Free moment" and three Northland schoolgirls have organised their fellow pupils to strike from school for the day to protest about the lack of international action on the issue.

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Lucy Gray, age 12 is one of the Christchurch strike organisers 

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“We are going on strike from school to urge our Government to act and protect our future from climate change. We know the use of fossil fuels is creating a climate crisis and is causing worse natural disasters, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and the loss of our glaciers. We only have 11 years to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, but our politicians are wasting time and putting our future in danger. We are calling on all politicians to work together to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees celsius”.

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Christchurch students to join global Climate Strike on March 15 calling for political action on climate change.

WHAT: The Christchurch School Strike for Climate Action will be inviting students from around the region to join them to rally and speak out against climate change.

WHEN: 15 March 1pm

WHERE: Cathedral Square, ChCh
Christchurch students are going on strike from school on 15th March to call on our politicians to take urgent action on climate change.

School students from hundreds of schools in dozens of cities and towns will join students from around the world to go on strike from school on March 15 over political inaction on climate change. They will joined by adults who will also walk out for the day in solidarity with the students' actions.

The school strike movement was kicked off last year by Year 8 students in Central Victoria, Australia who were inspired by 15 year old Swedish student Greta who started striking in August 2018 and now strikes every Friday.

Lucy Gray, age 12, one of the Christchurch strike organisers said, "We are going on strike from school to urge our Government to act and protect our future from climate change. We know the use of fossil fuels is creating a climate crisis and is causing worse natural disasters, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and the loss of our glaciers. We only have 11 years to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, but our politicians are wasting time and putting our future in danger. We are calling on all politicians to work together to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees celsius".

The NZ school strike for climate group has also launched an open letter to the NZ Parliament which is gaining support and signatures. https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/climate-declaration-from-the-youth-of-aotearoa
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/schoolstrike4climatenz/
Media Enquiries: chchstrike4climate@gmail.com

www.schoolstrike4climatenz.com

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Christchurch students to join global Climate Strike on March 15 calling for political action on climate change. WHAT: The Christchurch School Strike for Climate Action will be inviting students from around the region to join them to rally and speak ...

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Zak is a Logan Park High School pupil,  in Dunedin.

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"The message we're trying to get across with this is how we need to limit global warming to 1.5degC."

More urgent action, including by the New Zealand government, was needed to prevent uncontrolled global warming.

"We won't have an economy or an education system if we don't step up and do something."

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An information night at Knox Church's Stuart Hall at the weekend, to discuss the Schools Strike 4 Climate rally in the Octagon on March 15, was a "great success", Zak Rudin (16) said yesterday.

The gathering was "filled with enthusiastic people keen to help make this a huge success", he said yesterday.

Zak is a Logan Park High School pupil, and one of four young people co-ordinating the upcoming youth climate campaign event in Dunedin.

About 25 people attended the Saturday evening meeting to share information, discuss plans for the event, and consider a range of matters, including maintaining traffic safety for participants.

About 200 pupils from across the city had earlier registered their intention to attend the March 15 event, but Zak said this number was likely to rise, given more school pupils were likely to participate, and other supporters would also take part.

Zak said pupils from at least five Dunedin secondary schools were likely to attend, and there were indications pupils from some other schools, including primary schools, also wished to attend.

Some people had said that policies designed to rapidly reduce the use of fossil fuels could harm the economy, and that education could be harmed by school pupils attending the protest.

But the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted the need for urgent action, over the next 12 years, if irreversible damage to the global climate system was to be avoided.

"The message we're trying to get across with this is how we need to limit global warming to 1.5degC."

More urgent action, including by the New Zealand government, was needed to prevent uncontrolled global warming.

"We won't have an economy or an education system if we don't step up and do something."

The planned strike event is one of many to be held by schools around New Zealand on March 15.

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An information night at Knox Church's Stuart Hall at the weekend, to discuss the Schools Strike 4 Climate rally in the Octagon on March 15, was a "great success", Zak Rudin (16) said yesterday. The gathering was "filled with enthusiastic people keen to help make this a huge success", he said yesterday.

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An environmental action day

learning about School Strike 4 Climate  - why are they taking this action?

learning about creative solutions to climate issues eg. marine permaculture

Are you an Enviroschool? Check in with your Enviroschools Facilitator about relevant Enviroschools resources

Share photos and messages on the School Strike 4 Climate FB page

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This Irish resource explores what climate change is, how it effects different people and ways we can take action as individuals and collectively. It has sections for juniors and seniors.

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Secondary students hold a Climate Justice Fair 

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Research "Climate Warriors" - groups and individuals making a difference.

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Column: Earth, Justice, and Our Classrooms

By Bill Bigelow

Illustrator: Rose High Bear

Rose High Bear

We're sitting in the cozy, inviting library of Portland, Oregon's Madison High School. For her research and presentation on a "climate warrior," Ana chose the late Stephen Schneider, a leading scientist on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I ask what impact it had on her to study Schneider. She simply says, "He makes me want to be a better person."

In an audacious embrace of Portland schools' 2016 climate justice resolution, teachers in Madison's Citizen Chemistry for All course - a class enrolling more than 300 sophomores in the school - adopted an essential question for the past two years: "Why are human changes to Earth's carbon cycles at the heart of climate destabilization?" In a paper on Madison's approach to studying climate change, "Warrioring Up for Climate Justice," chemistry teacher Treothe Bullock and Restorative Justice coordinator Nyanga Uuka explained that teachers "wanted to support students in building a bridge between the personal and the planetary." Students would demonstrate their learning in an annual two-day "Climate Justice Fair," and would represent "communities which are engaging as 'climate warriors,' providing critical analysis of their work and/or proposing additional needed activism."

An honest, rigorous look at the science of climate change can be terrifying and disheartening. Falling into cynicism is a hazard one confronts simply by living in our society, with its inequality, violence, and lack of democracy. But add to that, knowledge of the inexorable rise of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere - and what this heat-trapping pollution means for the Earth - and despair feels like more than a threat, it feels like common sense. Knowing this, Madison chemistry teachers focus not purely on the science of climate destabilization, but also on individuals and organizations taking action to reverse it, inviting students to research "climate warriors," those who have not given up, those who "know the truth," and yet are not defeated by it.

Madison chemistry teachers - which included Bullock and Rachel Stagner, both members of Portland schools' Climate Justice Committee, and Tim Kniser - required students to identify one of the climate-related crises or issues explored in class and to create a slideshow, poster, short film, podcast, or some other way to "show how a 'climate warrior' is fighting against this issue." And at the fair, students are expected to offer verbal and written feedback to at least four other presenters.

I attended the fair each of the last two years. In addition to other chemistry students, audience for the presentations includes other staff members, 9th-grade students, and community members.

At the inauguration of the first Climate Justice Fair in spring 2017, the library buzzed with anticipation. Bullock launched the day with an invitation: "There isn't anyone who has the answer. We're figuring it out." Every student received a "Climate Justice Passport" to take notes in and had to identify the climate warrior, the issue they are involved in, the chemistry connection, and to evaluate the proposed solution.

Over the past two years, students' "warriors" have been diverse and included: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a plaintiff in the landmark Our Children's Trust lawsuit, Juliana v. United States of America; Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Irish president Mary Robinson, who works on the intersection of climate change and women's issues; Rose High Bear (Deg Hit'an Dine), producer of the NPR series "Wisdom of the Elders"; West Virginia mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe; Berta Cáceres, the Honduran Indigenous and peasant organizer who won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 and was assassinated in 2016; Crystal Lameman, of Canada's Beaver Lake Cree Nation, featured in the film This Changes Everything; and Zack Rago, a reef aquarist and scuba diver who appears in the film Chasing Coral.

The young woman presenting Rago as her "climate warrior" taught me more about coral during her short presentation than I'd ever known. (Did you know that coral is simultaneously rock, plant, and animal?) With a lovely smile, she admitted to having a crush on Rago.

In this year's fair, one student presented on Robert Bullard, a scholar and activist often referred to as the father of environmental justice. One of the Latina students listening to the presentation said, "I'd never heard of environmental racism. I never really heard that this affects people of color more than others."

Other students chose organizations or movements as their warriors rather than individuals. One student focused on 350.org, especially their "Keep it in the ground" campaign - "They really want you and me to get involved in this." A couple students presented the Indigenous movement to oppose DAPL, the Dakota Access Pipeline. About the pipeline's builders, Energy Transfer Partners, one student presenter commented: "There is not much depth to what they want. They just want more." Another pair of students presented on the 350 Pacific Climate Warriors. One presenter, Julia, began intensely: "Before I get into it more, I just have to say that people's homes are at risk. And how would we feel if we lost our homes?" After the short presentation, one student said, "I find it inspiring that they are working together to save their home. Their mantra is 'We're not drowning, we're fighting.'"

One of the tensions in teaching about climate justice is that the more students come to recognize how dire the crisis is, the more they want to try to make a difference. And that's great. But our culture is soaked in individualism, and inevitably, some students' default reaction is to think only about what they can do individually. As I listened to presentations, I asked students what they intended to do with all that they'd learned from their "climate warriors." One student said, "I intend to take five-minute showers from now on." Another committed to drinking only from reusable water bottles. And one student, clearly moved by her research, described her personal commitment to abandon eating meat, because of cattle's outsized carbon footprint.

There is nothing wrong with any of these. But we can't consume - or conserve - our way to climate sanity. That's going to take organizing and collective action. Encouragingly, a number of students emphasized this in their presentations. Leticia said that learning about the work of Indigenous activist Winona LaDuke, of Honor the Earth, "makes me want to protest pipelines." Another girl, whose climate warrior was the Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, said that Jetnil-Kijiner taught her: "Don't ignore the issue. Talk to people. Participate in protests against coal mines and pipelines. And make changes in your own life."

Despair is always a step away when we begin looking deeply at the contours of our climate emergency. But in Madison's Climate Justice Warrior project, students encountered the hope and determination of activists alongside the disturbing science of climate change. And as dire as the news can appear, our curriculum needn't be similarly grim. During both years of the Climate Justice Fair, the Madison library was electric with laughter - students telling stories, others listening respectfully, blurting out the frequent "wow" and "I never knew that."

This is the kind of teaching that needs to be going on in every high school in the country.

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Students "Warrior Up" for Climate Justice

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Oxfam GB's Climate Challenge resources focus on the human impact of climate change: how communities around the world are being affected by climate change and how people are responding and adapting to these challenges. You could pull out a few of these activities to find what kids know already.

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Dunedin school kids spent a day walking and bussing around South Dunedin to learn about climate change at the annual Enviroschools Primary Hui.

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Enviroschools students to learn about climate change at hui

Dunedin (Thursday, 1 December 2016) - Dunedin school kids will spend a day walking and bussing around South Dunedin to learn about climate change at the annual Enviroschools Primary Hui.

40 staff and students from nine Dunedin primary schools will take part in the hui on Friday, 2 December. They will visit sites in South Dunedin to find out about climate change issues and how they can positively influence their future climate.

"Knowledge of climate change can be scary and debilitating for many people, which is why it's so important to use the 20:80 rule. A 20% focus on what the issue is and 80% on the action we can take," says Dunedin Enviroschools facilitator Anna Hughes.

Students will use maps and bus timetables to work out how to get to their allocated site. At the different sites, they will learn about groundwater and sea level rise, coastal erosion, methane production at the landfill, mud tanks and stormwater, civil defence and preparing for natural disasters, threatened marine mammals, and what Z Energy is doing to address sustainability.

"Some students may never have taken the bus or may have forgotten that it's enjoyable and easy to walk to places that aren't too far away. Learning about active and public transport will be one of the hui's highlights," says Ms Hughes.

Each group will make a poster about what they learnt to present at the end of the hui. Students will record the presentations to share with their school and community.

The ORC funds the Enviroschools programme regionally and the Dunedin City Council funds the programme for Dunedin city schools.

Schools that would like to find out more about the Enviroschools programme can contact Robyn Zink, the Enviroschools Coordinator based at the Otago Regional Council, for more information.

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Enviroschools students to learn about climate change at hui Dunedin (Thursday, 1 December 2016) - Dunedin school kids will spend a day walking and bussing around South Dunedin to learn about climate change at the annual Enviroschools Primary Hui. 40 staff and students from nine Dunedin primary schools will take part in the hui on Friday, 2 December.

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Exploring the impacts of climate change in through the eyes of women

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Exploring the impacts of climate change in through the eyes of women

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For older students, uses poetry and drama to explore impacts and perspectives.

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Making the Change - Female Climate Fighters: Learn how climate change impacts on people’s lives

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Climate change is already having a huge impact on millions of people all over the world.

These resources for ages 11-16 use a film narrated by poet Roger McGough to look at how women in Bolivia, Philippines, Zimbabwe and the UK have been affected by climate change, and how they are respond…

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A model to help us take action - thinking about our "social handprint" as well as our "environmental footprint"

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Science education resources related to the topic Climate change

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Climate Kids is produced by the Earth Science Communications Team at

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A group of kids who advocate for climate action, especially through planting trees, but through a ton of other efforts as well

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Kid Climate Activists Still Planting Trees, Inspiring Grownups

"Kids save the future!" says nine-year-old Theo Faloona.

Nine-year-old Theo. Photos by Sara Bernard.

Seattle's new Plant for the Planet president-elect, 13-year-old Athena Fain, has begun to think about the way that she talks about climate change.

For three years, she's been part of a group of kids who advocate for climate action, especially through planting trees, but through a ton of other efforts as well (i.e. urging the Gates Foundation to divest from fossil fuels, urging the City Council to put warning labels on gas pumps, continuing to support those members who're still involved in a climate-change lawsuit against the state Department of Ecology, and standing with Standing Rock). But this summer, the rousing speech Fain made at the NW Solar Fest was a good learning opportunity "as far as my speech-making ability goes," she says. "I made everybody feel kinda negative. I don't want that. I don't want people to feel negative."

From now on, "I'm gonna try to give positive speeches! Because now is definitely not the time" for gloom and doom, she says. "I'm also gonna focus on telling people what they should do, as opposed to what they should not do." For instance, "As a favor to me and my future, why don't you try walking more, instead of driving?"

On Saturday, Fain, along with about a dozen or so Plant for the Planet kids, some as young as six, gathered to make announcements, recite poems, sing an original song that 16-year-old activist and musician Aji Piper wrote for the event, and put five baby redwood trees in the ground on the north side of Beacon Hill's Jefferson Park. As part of the Moving the Giants to Puget Sound project, organized by former Boeing-employee-turned-tree-advocate Philip Stielstra, 300 coast redwood saplings will be planted at 26 different sites across the region in December and January. Saturday's event was the kickoff. These particular redwoods, it turns out, store more carbon dioxide per acre than any other tree in the world, according to a seven-year study published this summer by researchers at the University of Washington and Humboldt State University. Stielstra predicts that if everything goes well for these trees, they'll still be standing in Jefferson Park in 3,000 years.

Yes, they are just trees, and there are just five of them. But it's heartening to do something tangible in the face of all the bad stuff, Plant for the Planet kids say, especially post-election - though on this point, too, Fain is compassionate: "I want to keep an open mind and an open heart ... I don't want to believe that Donald Trump is as bad as he acts."

Nine-year-old Theo Faloona, official coordinator of Saturday's event, says he only got involved with Plant for the Planet a month or two ago ("I think it's a good group and I'm going to continue with it for a while"). As for his feelings on climate, he's definitely concerned. "I'm worried, because I would be affected... my generation, and my children and my grandchildren would be affected the most. That's one of the reasons Plant for the Planet got started," he explains. "Kids save the future!" And as for his immediate future? "I hope to get more involved with politicians and stuff."

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Kid Climate Activists Still Planting Trees, Inspiring Grownups | Seattle Weekly

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"Kids save the future!" says nine-year-old Theo Faloona. Seattle's new Plant for the Planet president-elect, 13-year-old Athena Fain, has begun to think about the way that she talks about climate change. For three years, she's been part of a group of kids who advocate for climate action, especially through planting trees, but through a ton of other efforts as well (i.e.

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Starting his project as a nine-year-old, Felix Finkbeiner aims to restore the world’s forests.

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What is the greenhouse effect? | Global Ideas

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The Next Generation Asks World Leaders at UN: Why Not Act on Climate Change?

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The Next Generation Asks World Leaders at UN: Why Not Act on Climate Change?

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Young people prepare to go to the UN climate talks in 2014

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The Next Generation Asks World Leaders at UN: Why Not Act on Climate Change?

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Climate Change Implications for New Zealand

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Climate Change Implications for New Zealand

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A report from the Royal Society

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2016: New Zealand is being affected by climate change and impacts are set to increase in magnitude and extent over time.

Floods, storms, droughts and fires will become more frequent unless significant action is taken to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, which are changing the climate.

Even small changes in average climate conditions are likely to lead to large changes in the frequency of occurrence of extreme events. Our societies are not designed to cope with such rapid changes.

This report describes in general terms the changes in climate that are expected globally and nationally during the 21st century, before focusing on six key areas of risk for New Zealand:

coastal margins

flooding from rivers

availability of and competition for freshwater

changes to our surrounding oceans

threats to unique ecosystems

flow‑on effects from climate change impacts and responses overseas.

Climate Change Implications for New Zealand report sections:

Blog: Infrequently Asked Questions

Read IAQS blog on the watery effects of climate change for New Zealand with Professor James Renwick: Floods for you; sea level rise for me

Blog: Infrequently Asked Questions

Read IAQs blog on why our ability to care for the environment depends, in part, on our ability to navigate risk with Landcare Researcher's Dr Alison Greenaway: Climate: considering future risk.

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Climate change implications for New Zealand

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2016: New Zealand is being affected by climate change and impacts are set to increase in magnitude and extent over time. Floods, storms, droughts and fires will become more frequent unless significant action is taken to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, which are changing the climate.

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Para Kore delivers education and training on marae to create behaviour change that aligns with the principles of a circular economy by eliminating waste in the planning process, sorting waste so that as little as possible goes to landfill and educating whānau about how to reduce plastic and recycling. As a Māori organisation, Para Kore is grounded in relationships with and whakapapa to Papatūānuku, Ranginui me ō rāua uri.

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Home Page - Para Kore Para Kore - Para Kore

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Nau mai ki Para Kore We provide education through wānanga that supports groups, whānau and communities to design out and reduce their waste. Para Kore is a national Māori zero waste organisation available throughout Aotearoa.

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Looking at climate change impacts in our region

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We're taking a leading role, working with government, mana whenua and our communities, to protect our region right now and for generations to follow.

We declared a climate emergency in 2019 and set a big, bold target to be carbon neutral by 2030. We're serious about this. We partner with all sorts of groups, working together to reduce emissions and prepare for the unavoidable effects of climate change. We're taking action now and planning for big changes ahead, to help us reach our carbon neutral goal.

Impacts on our region

We are already seeing the impacts of climate change on our region and these will continue to become more apparent over time.

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Test | Greater Wellington Regional Council

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We declared a climate emergency in 2019 and set a big, bold target to be carbon neutral by 2030. We're serious about this. We partner with all sorts of groups, working together to reduce emissions and prepare for the unavoidable effects of climate change.

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Connected 2014 level 3 - Why Is That?

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Rising Seas / Connected 2014 level 3 - Why Is That? / Connected / Instructional Series / English - ESOL - Literacy Online website - Instructional Series

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A Call to Action for all Teachers

Imagine how many teachers create wonderful coursework for students that is locked away in a file cabinet instead of being shared.

Imagine what could happen if that coursework was accessible to other teachers, schools, associations and youth around the world, with credit given to you.

Imagine volunteer translators could transform your coursework into languages recognized in over 100 nations, making it accessible to all students.

This can become a reality with your help. We need volunteer teachers to blog and post their coursework on this portal to be shared with teachers around the world. Contact us at: translate@zerofootprint.net

Youth Calculator - Getting Started!

Students can participate in the (OF)2: Our Footprints, Our Future! project by participating in the (CO)2 Youth Calculator and by joining the online discussion forums in which teachers and students are sharing their activities to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions/footprint.

The first step is for your students to register at the Calculator site: www.youth.zerofootprint.net, by selecting your language of choice and then clicking on the "Get Started!" button.

Students are first asked to create a username & password and then to identify their gender, age and school name. Students begin by typing the name of their school and it will appear from a list of options - select the correct school from the list. If it does not appear, please send an email to youth@zerofootprint.net to have your school added to our database.

Next, students are presented with a series of questions and tips, starting with "travel" followed by "tips" about different options for setting specific goals for themselves (for example, "I will ride a bike instead of riding in a car"). By setting a goal, they are helping to pledge a reduction of CO2, which will be joined and/or compared with goals set by students of the same age/gender at different schools and in different countries.

The categories are: Travel / What you eat / Home / What you use / What you throw away

At any time, students can click on the results button at the bottom right to calculate their carbon footprint. They do not have to finish all the questions at one time, but can log-off and return at any time to answer any remaining questions.

Calculating one's Carbon Footprint

When a student clicks on the results button, they are taken to the results page where they can compare their carbon footprints and goals with those of others in the same or different school, country, gender and age group. They can see these comparisons by clicking on the "My School" "Boys/Girls" "Country" and "Age". To compare with a specific school, the student should start typing the school name and keep typing until the desired school's name appears. A comparison with different countries works the same way.

They can also see how many earths it would take to maintain the level of carbon dioxide that they are producing from their lifestyles, assuming that everyone produces the same amount as they do.

In the upper right corner, they can also see the total amount of CO2 that students worldwide have pledged to reduce by changes in their lifestyle. The goal that students are collectively trying to meet this year is to reduce CO2 production by 35,000 tons.

Hopefully, these results and the issues raised in the tips/goals can become part of the discussion that students have together in the forum for Our Footprints, Our Future: http://www.iearn.org/

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Imagine how many teachers create wonderful coursework for students that is locked away in a file cabinet instead of being shared. Imagine what could happen if that coursework was accessible to other teachers, schools, associations and youth around the world, with credit given to you.

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An activity to critically reflect on one’s own and others’ ideas or perspectives on impacts of climate change on people’s lives as a means of developing empathetic understanding

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An overview from 2008 with activities to support learning - some aspects are out of date but still useful

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An introduction of "A People's Curriculum for the Earth" from the US - mainly background information, with a great perspectives activity and timeline of awareness and action on climate change.

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Short films about young people who take action -

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Young Voices for the Climate - curriculum support

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Young Voices for the Climate - curriculum support

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Like Enviroschools - uses an action planning approach and stories of kids' work to inspire action.

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Young Voices for the Planet | Award-Winning Film Series and Civic Engagement & Democracy Curriculum | Civic Engagement & Democracy Curriculum

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Young Voices is a series of short films featuring children and young people using science and data to reduce the carbon footprint of their homes schools communities states and planet

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These are posted on the fb page too.