Post by Nora Mahmoud
I attended and participated the side event
, "Get mad and do something about it! Youth as initiators for change," co-organized
by Temple of Understanding, Gender Progress Consortium, Zero Waste
Youth, Zero Waste Institute Brazil, Government of the City of Porto
Alegre, Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization (ICEC),
CliMates, MobilizeUS,Worldview Impact Foundation’s Green Apprentice
Programme (GAP), Peace Revolution, and Novociclo.
The event's aim was meant
to recognize the anger and disappointment many young people feel when
we look to our future. Rather than meeting the future with a defeated
attitude, the panel explored several of the environmental hurdles
facing younger generations and then presented solutions, such as,
alternative lifestyles, green business ideas, green growth, social media and virtual capacity building forums and short courses, and new
ideas for institutional infrastructure that are currently being
implemented by youth.
It was an extremely interactive and therapeutic session in
which the audience was asked to participate and express their feelings about how they felt the negotiations were going and they were also to share what actions they felt needed to take place during Rio+20 and beyond.
I talked about my experience with the Earth Charter youth network and emphasized the importance of education for sustainable development as the way forward.
meant
to recognize the anger and disappointment many young people feel when
we look to our future. Rather than meeting the future with a defeated
attitude, the panel explored several of the environmental hurdles
facing younger generations and then presented solutions, such as,
alternative lifestyles, green business ideas, green growth, social media and virtual capacity building forums and short courses, and new
ideas for institutional infrastructure that are currently being
implemented by youth.
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