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Time to Apply for the Brower Youth Awards!
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Posted March 19, 2008 at 3:52 PM
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We have now opened our 2008 application period for the Brower Youth Award! Applications for the 2008 Brower Youth Awards will be accepted until May 15, 2008. Request an application at www.broweryouthawards.org
Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards to honor founder and legendary activist David R. Brower. The Brower Youth Awards recognizing six young people in North America annually for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and environmental justice advocacy. The winners of the award receive a $3,000 cash prize, a trip to California for the award ceremony and wilderness camping trip, and ongoing access to resources and opportunities to further their work at Earth Island Institute. Young activist leaders ages 13-22 living in North America are eligible to apply.
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Criteria for the Brower Youth Awards
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The Brower Youth Awards recognize people ages 13 to 22 living in North America who have shown outstanding leadership on a project with positive environmental and social impact.
“Outstanding leadership” means that you played the major leadership role in creating, organizing and implementing your project. We are looking for the person with the vision, motivation, and leadership skills that made the project work.
“Project impact” includes how the project benefited the environment and community in terms of measurable results (e.g. acres of wildlife habitat protected or restored, number of people engaged in social issues because of the project, numbers of children no longer exposed to toxins, etc.). The project should fall under one or more of the following categories:
CONSERVATION is work to eliminate or decrease our use of natural resources and our negative impacts on ecosystems and communities. For example:
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A project that plays a substantial role in organizing a local community to pass a public transportation initiative
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A project that significantly reduces energy use on a school campus by requiring passive solar design and the use of efficient appliances in all school facilities.
"Conserve the golden eggs carefully. Preserve the goose or there will be no more golden eggs. If you've already damaged the goose, get going on Restoration."
~ David R. Brower
PRESERVATION is work to protect ecosystems, species, indigenous cultures and other irreplaceable elements of the world's natural heritage. For example:
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A project that secures protected nesting area for an endangered songbird
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A project that plays a substantial role in blocking development of Native sacred sites via ongoing peaceful civil disobedience (demonstrations, street theater, marches)
RESTORATION is work to re-establish the healthy functioning of ecosystems; parts of ecosystems; and human communities that manage ecosystems. For example:
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A project that reclaims an abandoned urban lot, creates an organic garden.
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A project that rallies a community to fight for prison reform.
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