A SWELL EFFORT
Members of the Sierra Student Coalition, the student-run arm of the Sierra Club, took a trip to San Rafael Swell, Utah, to aid in wilderness preservation efforts
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Going Green Online
The coming of the Internet has made it much easier for young people to network, even if they can't travel to U.N. conferences. SustainUS, an organization sponsored by environmental groups for people under 26, has chapters on more than 50 American campuses with the goal of educating youth about sustainable living. Through their website and e-mail, SustainUS urges students to pledge to reduce their personal contribution to the greenhouse effect by, for example, carpooling to school and taking shorter showers. The goal is for members to take a personal stake in reducing carbon dioxide emissions by a total of 20,000 tons this year.
E-mail also proved crucial to Canadian Simon Jackson's campaign to save British Columbia's Great Bear Rain forest and its most famous inhabitant, the white Kermode, also known as the Spirit Bear. Jackson, who was 13 when he started his crusade, persuaded thousands of kids to send messages to the B.C. government. Those emails helped persuade officials last year to put large tracts of the Great Bear Rain forest off limits to loggers.