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Inconvenient Youth is the new one-stop shop for teens fighting climate change

The Climate Project, founded by Al Gore, is launching a new website designed for teens who want to live greener and fight climate change.

By Jeffrey DavisTue, Apr 20 2010 at 4:35 PM EST
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GET ACTIVE: New eco-web community for teens (Photo: Inconvenient Youth)
 
What do you do if you want to live green but have no influence on household consumption or legislation? That’s the problem that faces teenagers across the world. That is, until now. The Climate Project’s new Inconvenient Youth website is the new one-stop shop for eco-minded teens.
 
Al Gore founded the Climate Project in 2006. Its purpose is to educate the public about the harmful effects of climate change and work toward solutions at a grassroots level worldwide. Inconvenient Youth is an initiative of the bigger project, which launched in 2006 as an effort to train 1,000 people to give Gore’s talk from An Inconvenient Truth. The Climate Project now has eight international branches with more than 3,000 presenters worldwide. Their new Inconvenient Youth initiative is the first to put teens front and center instead of throwing them a bone as an afterthought.
 
Inconvenient Youth program manager Sam Davidson says the new site is not a website at all. He says, “It’s not a website; it’s a community. We’re trying to build a community — a place where people create dialog and encourage and empower one another to take action. We’re not broadcasting ‘green tips’ from on high; we’re creating a space where teens can share what they’re already doing.”
 
On the ground floor, Inconvenient Youth is a community where teens can share their “actions” (little things) and their “ideas” (big dreams for tackling climate change) with each other. Ultimately, Inconvenient Youth will serve as a place where teens share what they’re doing to live greener and a space to connect teens with resources that will help them accomplish their bigger ideas.
 
Inconvenient Youth began as an effort by Mary Doerr, a 16-year-old presenter for The Climate Project who wanted to connect her own age group with the means to do something about climate change. Mary’s work centered on adapting The Climate Project slideshow for a youth audience and touring the country to deliver a customized youth talk to students.
 
To join the Inconvenient Youth community, users must be between the ages of 13 and 18 — but there are special sections “for adults” and “for educators”. Davidson told me, “Inconvenient Youth isn’t about telling teens what to do to fight climate change, but about encouraging them to think of things on their own.”
 
The Inconvenient Youth website is up and running, but its official launch date is Earth Day’s 40th anniversary on April 22.
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THE EXPOSER 09/25/2010 08:15 AM

Mary is the daughter of John Doerr, a partner in the venture capital firm that Gore joined last November, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Now isnt that a strange coincident...
Untangling the web further, one of the key partners at KPCB, legendary moneyman John Doerr, also spoke at the TED conference in March, and as can be seen in this video, bragged about how he and seven of his colleagues lobbied legislators in California for the passage of AB 32, The Global Warming.... More

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sheilah 04/26/2010 08:37 AM

You and all your cronies want to make money off of our youth to back your lies. Good job Gore, you and Tipper sit in your house that is not at all green and you want to brainwash our young, you are disgusting.

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Munimula the Merciful 04/22/2010 19:34 PM

There is a great difference between "Climate Change" aka "Global Warming" and Science. The first is a manufactured crisis by the Socialists and Marxists represented by the Obama Regime and their fellow travelers while Science is the methodical and logical search for the truth using the Scientific Method. The research done on “Climate Change” by the UN up to this point has been discredited along with the dishonest people who did the research and called themselves Scientists.
While.... More

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Deidre 04/22/2010 17:15 PM

Hi Al Gore-Are you still flying around in your private jet because you have earned your carbon credits? Al are you still dodging fox news reporters because they have questions that you are afraid to answer? Al how come your house uses 20 times more energy than the national average? Al I plan on honoring earth day by letting air out of the tires of my gas guzzling car, and turning every light on. Americans have had enough of your hypocrisy !!!

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proma 04/22/2010 16:27 PM

Brainwash them young. Will sell his wife and children for money man bear pig.

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