Stories from youth across the globe


The work of having hope, even in the real world
Like most young people involved in activism, I have too frequently heard the dreaded phrase that reduced my passion to naiveté: “Just wait...
‘Going Beyond the Poster Itself’: The Climate Museum’s #BeyondLies Campaign
PhotoCredit: Yelena Odintsova. I couldn’t help but scroll back to the image I just passed on Instagram. I was looking at a graphic of a...
Youth Empowerment & Sustainability on Campus: A Conversation with Perry Dripps
Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. I was once a student on a college campus, and I’ve been around people like Perry...
Sustainable Consumption, Gender & Justice: A Conversation with Lucie Middlemiss
PhotoCredit: Mike Jones. Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. In July, I came across an article in The Guardian...
Who will be left to warn?
PhotoCredit: Black Light Media. If there is anything that has made me pause a few times this week, it is the photograph taken by...
We Can’t Escape This: On Breathing & Social Justice
PhotoCredit: Mido Makasardi ©️. The day after George Floyd’s murder, the neighborhood residents around S. Carrollton Ave. in New Orleans...
The Public Health Job Market in A Public Health Crisis
PhotoCredit: Mikhail Nilov. “Since the beginning of 2020, I have submitted 700+ job applications-” I stopped reading the Facebook post...
[Un]lost in Translation
PhotoCredit: Pavel Danilyuk. The evening the pregnant woman stopped me a block away from my apartment in the French Quarter was a typical...
Making Sustainability Trendy
PhotoCredit: ready made. I do not know about the places where you live, but in Denmark, where I live, it seems another trend of clothes...
Something about truth
PhotoCredit: Photo By: Kaboompics.com. When on the topic of climate change and other environmental and sustainable issues attitudes...
Why avocados also suck
PhotoCredit: Lisa Fotios. The truth is that I really, truly, deeply love avocados, and I want to eat guacamole with everything all the...
The tragic story of how I try to live sustainably while constantly wanting to buy clothes I do not need
PhotoCredit: Freepik. The story begins one boring evening a few years ago when I decided that I would stop buying clothes from the...