Organizing + Leading

List of people driving tangible policy change, drawn from hundreds of nominations from experts and leading organizations.

Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth, Rachel Sarah, Chicago Review Press. A book full of inspiring youth organizers and girl power.

The Rieser Award is the capstone of the Bulletin’s Next Generation Program, created to ensure that new voices, steeped in science and public policy, have a trusted platform from which to address existential challenges. 

The Youth Trailblazer Award recognizes the contributions of a young leader who has made an outstanding impact in the areas of climate change, sustainable development, and human rights.  The Youth Trailblazer Award is presented in partnership with American Honda Motor Co., Inc. 

“Our 3iAward winners and IREC Energy Heroes represent the nation’s most extraordinary people, projects and programs, creating replicable solutions to today’s complex renewable energy and energy efficiency challenges, one state and one community at a time,” said IREC Board Chairman Larry Shirley."

State Environmental Leaders Conference. 32th annual conference for leaders from state-level environmental advocacy groups. Since 1988, this conference has helped more than 260 state-based environmental organizations from around the country become stronger, better, and more successful. 

Gave a shoutout the day before the March 15 global climate strike, and encouraged people to attend in their cities.

On Earth Day 2019, former President Barack Obama acknowledged the youth climate activists in a Twitter thread, with a special shoutout that included Haven.

Shondaland: If you're looking to be a part of the conversation about climate change, check out these timelines.

The young climate warriors around the world—from Brazil to Pakistan, Cuba to Nigeria, the US to Belgium—fighting to save the planet for future generations.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Al Gore, Rodale Books, 

A collection of bold risk-takers putting the planet before themselves and showing us all how to carry the environmental torch into the twenty-first century. Chosen from thousands after months of research and outreach.