Youth C.A.N. Events
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Events
This page lists events already attended by BLS Youth CAN attended in the spring of 2007, as well as pending global warming events in the area. Watch for information about next year’s global warming events here.
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Though Youth CAN is barely into our second year, (founded on January 23rd 2007), we have been actively working to raise climate change awareness in our club, our school, and even around the city. During the past five months of the current academic year, Youth CAN members attended the following events in and around the City of Boston:
Along with a large group of college students, Youth CAN members made their presence as high school students felt at the Mass Youth Climate Action (MYCA) event at Northeastern on September 23, 2007. We worked with other aware teens and young adults to create a network of youth who want to address climate change from around the city. Looking to make the world a more environmentally-friendly place, members of MYCA brainstormed solutions to solve smaller problems, like the issue of plastic bags and disposable water bottles and also tackled possibilities for getting progressive legislation passed.
Youth CAN members subsequently attended a second MYCA meeting at Boston University on December 2, 2007, to develop ways to pass legislation and set goals for the organization. Currently MYCA is doing very well, and Youth CAN is proud to be a part of it. For more information, visit http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/?s=myca.
Youth CAN members attended the fifth annual AltWheels event in Boston on September 28, 2007. AltWheels is a festival devoted to educating the public about alternative fuels to save energy and the environment. Youth CAN had a table at the event to promote our club and Annual Summit, as well as to participate in the well-attended event. http://www.altwheels.org/
Youth CAN members participated in an event sponsored by Tufts students and Corporate Accountability International discussing the problems with using bottled water on October 10, 2007. Though speakers at the event brought up ethical issues surrounding bottled water, the event focused on the detrimental environmental impact that the bottled water industry has on the world today, from the shipping of the bottled water to the empty bottles that do not get recycled. Visit http://www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org for more information, and sign the Think Outside The Bottle Pledge to drink tap water over bottled water to conserve our environment!
