All “Water Planet Challenge” Posts
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Events, Water Planet Challenge, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, What You Do, Youth In Action
Defend Your Drain Webinar with Philippe Cousteau and Seventh Generation Foundation’s John Replogle
Did you realize that everything you send down the drain—including things that you wash off your body or that first pass through your body—can end up back in local waterways, the ocean, and even the water supply?
Join EarthEcho International and Seventh Generation Foundation for an Earth Month webinar that explores the connections between everyday products and the health of our water planet. This lively panel discussion—which will include EarthEcho’s Philippe Cousteau and Seventh Generation’s John Replogle—will address toxins often found in personal and home care products, the impacts these have on marine environments, and how youth can take action to bring about meaningful change. Learn how to defend your drain and enter the Campaign for a Toxin Free Generation video contest with a chance to win fantastic prizes.
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Events, Water Planet Challenge
Banking On Youth Offers Support for New Youth Ventures
Just announced, a new opportunity for young leaders and change-makers with ideas for new ventures to receive support: Youth Venture and the Consumer Bankers Foundation are giving away prizes such $1,000 seed money, a trip to the Ashoka Future Forum, and two grand prizes of $5,000 and $15,000!! It’s a great opportunity to share your idea, join a community of young changmakers and win some amazing prizes!
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Events, Water Planet Challenge, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, What You Do, Youth In Action
Cutting Through a Sea of Excuses: Equipping Youth to Save the Ocean
When confronting the issue of ocean debris and pollution, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and find a quick excuse to focus on something else, anything else, other than the cold hard facts. It’s an understandable impulse because the problem isn’t pretty and it’s getting worse. The issue of plastic debris in the ocean is startling on its own. A United Nations study found that every square mile of the ocean has approximately 46,000 pieces of floating plastic in it.
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Jun 07
Events, Water Planet Challenge
FREE Webinar: The Big CleanUP - Win a visit from Philippe Cousteau and TerraCycle’s Tom Szaky
Welcome to the Big CleanUP, an exciting summer-long challenge where young people take action to protect our world’s oceans. It all kicks off with our FREE LIVE WEBINAR hosted by Philippe Cousteau with Tom Szaky of TerraCycle and featuring amazing footage from One World One Ocean. Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:00pm EST More details on the contest COMING SOON. 50 PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE A FREE FLIP CAMERA! REGISTER NOW! Join EarthEcho International's Philippe Cousteau for a special webinar to kick-off The Big CleanUP, an exciting summer-long challenge involving young people taking action to protect our world’s oceans. Hear directly from our partners TerraCycle, a national recycling system for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste, and One World One Ocean, a multi-year campaign harnessing the power of film, television, and new media to restore a healthy ocean. The webinar is part of the outreach surrounding the USA Pavilion …
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EarthEcho Updates, Events, Water Planet Challenge, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, How You're Powered, What You Eat
EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES FOOD-FOCUSED WHAT’S ON YOUR FORK? ACTION GUIDE
Does what you eat really have impact on our planet? Could mealtime choices actually help promote clean drinking water? What’s On Your Fork? is a new free downloadable Action Guide and collection of supplementary educational tools from EarthEcho International designed to help educators and students explore the environmental and community impact of daily food choices. This new resource is part of EarthEcho’s Water Planet Challenge, a web-based interactive program exploring a myriad of topics that engage and empower middle and high school-aged youth to design, create and implement service-learning projects in their communities.
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EarthEcho Updates, Events, Water Planet Challenge, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, What You Eat
Meatless Mondays coming to Water Planet Challenge this Fall
EarthEcho International is excited to announce that we will be working with Meatless Mondays to develop our next Water Planet Challenge Action Guide. This resource will be available in September. In the meantime, check out our other Action Guides. They can all be downloaded for free from the box on the right.
