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North America’s Top Environmental Youth Leaders - 2009/10/16 19:45
North America’s Top Environmental Youth Leaders Spotlighted With Prestigious Brower Youth Awards
North America’s Top Green Youth Leaders Spotlighted As Prestigious Environmental Award Celebrates 10th Anniversary
San Francisco, CA—Who’s responsible for some of North America’s biggest environmental victories, such as saving one million acres of boreal forest from industrial logging, helping to prevent the permits for twenty new coal plants and five mountaintop removal coal applications, and transforming food purchasing across the University of California system? Young people who have yet to celebrate their 23rd birthdays.
On October 20, 2009, Earth Island Institute will bestow the 2009 Brower Youth Award to six of North America’s boldest young environmental leaders. The 2009 prize recipients include:
• Sierra Crane-Murdoch, 21, of Vermont, for uniting the movement to battle coal
• Adarsha Shivakumar, 16, of California, who implemented a biofuel solution in rural India
• Alec Loorz, 15, of California, the youngest presenter of Al Gore’s “The Climate Project”
• Diana Lopez, 20, of Texas, who created an organic food source for San Antonio
• Hai Vo, 22, of California, for helping transform University of California food purchasing
• Robin Bryan, 21, of Manitoba, who helped protect one million acres of forest in Canada from industrial logging
The award recipients will receive a $3,000 cash prize for their achievements, while being recognized at the Brower Youth Awards 10th anniversary gala celebration in San Francisco on October 20, 2009, with 900 people in attendance.
The six winners were chosen from more than 125 applicants for their creative and effective work tackling problems ranging from food justice to deforestation, global warming to pollution.
The thirteen judges for the award are leaders in business, journalism and the nonprofit sector, including Josh Dorfman of The Sundance Channel’s “Lazy Environmentalist”, Judith Helfand, the director of the global warming film “Everything’s Cool”, and Philippe Cousteau, CEO of EarthEcho International and grandson of Jacques Cousteau.
In the first ten years of the program, the 61 current and past award recipients have raised more than $1.4 million for environmental causes, trained more than 3,000 youth in advocacy, involved more than 32,000 in projects, implemented 20 university-wide environmental policies, passed eight pieces of legislation, organized more than 3,300 events and actions, produced more than 20 documentary films, and held 500 plus lobby meetings with elected officials.
The Brower Youth Awards is run by Earth Island Institute, a non-profit, public interest, membership organization that supports people who are creating solutions to protect our shared planet. Funding for the Brower Youth Awards comes from generous support by Earth Island members, as well as Visa, Clif Bar, and Klean Kanteen.
Short summaries for all 2009 Award recipients follow, and fuller summaries, videos and photographs are online at www.broweryouthawards.org/2009media
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