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SLAP is really gonna happen!

Posted by Alec

When the film crew came last week, they only came for one day. But we had to pretend they were there for a week. We scheduled so many things that day!

One of the things that happened was we had a meeting with the city, to talk about SLAP.There were a lot of important people there, including Rick Cole, the city manager. He was really interested and he wants to help out with SLAP.

I really think we can do this! We’re finally getting somewhere.

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Documentary film crew

Posted by Alec

In global warming
7May 08

Just a few days ago, I had a film crew follow me around all day… it was pretty cool!

This woman named Lynne Cherry, and a guy named Gary Braasch wrote a book called, “How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Climate Change.” And now they’re making it into a documentary.

They are going to feature Kids vs Global Warming and SLAP will be featured throughout the documentary! It’s pretty awesome.

Here’s Lynne Cherry’s website: http://www.lynnecherry.com/

And Gary Braasch’s: http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/

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Happy Earth Day!

Posted by Alec

In global warming
22Apr 08

Hi Everyone! Happy earth day!

I woke up this today and felt the excitement that most kids feel on Christmas morning. Just two years ago, I would have not cared at all about today. It would’ve just been another school day… but so much has change since then. Now, I wake up and feel ready. Ready to do something. I’m not quite sure what, But I know that today will be a great day.

I just realized that it’s been a year now since I first learned about global warming. One year ago, my mom rented “an inconvenient truth,” and got me to watch it. I was actually reluctant at first. It just seemed like another boring documentary. But I was wrong. The movie completely changed me. I watched the whole thing twice in a row, right there on the spot. I knew I needed to do something.

And after being involved for a while, I’ve realized that the movie has been influential to a lot of other people to. It’s amazing how one man can change the minds of millions of people.

Really, as a nation, we’ve really gone though a huge change. 30 years ago, nobody celebrated earth day. It was just a hippie thing back then (or so I’m told. That was about 117 years before I was born.)

But now… Everyone cares. A business can’t get by very good without making a “green” ad or making a “green” product. Google, Youtube, Yahoo, they all have “green” logos today (I encourage you to check them out, they’re pretty cool.)

Everyone suddenly wants everything they buy to be green. They suddenly want to get rid of all their light bulbs and replace them with CFLs. They suddenly want to shop local, and bring their own cloth bags. They suddenly feel proud driving a hybrid car. And it’s really all because of on man. Al Gore changed the face of this nation. If it weren’t for him, we would probably still be driving away from Target in our SUV with the back seats piled high with plastic bags. (*gasp*)

So, America, thank you. Thank you for watching Al Gore’s movie. Thank you for buying green. Thank you for changing your light bulbs, for shopping local, for bringing your own bags.Thank you, America, for caring. We really are starting to get somewhere.

We can do this. We can stop global warming.

And again, happy earth day!

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Worldlink speech Video

Posted by Alec

In global warming
26Feb 08

I’ve finally uploaded the video of my speech to YouTube… It’s not the best quality, but it’s all we have.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8lt5mHJE68

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WorldLink conference Jan. 24

Posted by Alec

In global warming
31Jan 08

Today was the 11th annual WorldLink conference, a youth town meeting that happens every year. The theme this year was “Untying Global Knots: Global Warming, corruption, poverty, media bias.” Over 700 high school students attended, from 27 different schools.

WorldLink chose me to be a speaker at the event. I was on a panel along with 3 other PhD’s, including a woman who works for the IPCC, the organization that won the Nobel Peace prize along with Al Gore. Lisa Shaffer, my mentor for the work study week last year was also there.

My first speech was to all of the 700 high school students. It was so cool. I got a standing ovation (that’s totally bragging, but it was pretty cool…) The speech will be on YouTube by Sunday. I’ll send out a link on the site when it’s up.

So… anyway, after the first speech, I gave my skeptic presentation (The climate skeptic’s five flavors of denial) to three different groups of about 30-75 high school kids each. I got commitments from over 50 kids that said they wanted to help, and 7 schools that wanted to start a Kids vs. Global Warming Action Team at their school.