June 8th is World Oceans Day. The 2012 theme is Youth: the Next Wave for Change. The future of ocean conservation is in their hands! An opportunity to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to the sea.
The Green Schools Alliance (GSA) in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is currently accepting applications and nominations for the 2012 Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3)
Our friends over at Seventeen Magazine have announced their second annual Pretty Amazing Contest. The contest winner will receive among many cool prizes a $20,000 college scholarship.
On January 26, 2012, the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of California presented a public workshop entitled “Your Voice: The Public’s Role in Environmental Decision-Making.” Experts at the workshop spoke on the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA"), the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), and the Brown Act, amongst other important environmental laws.
The older we get the more clearly we see how few things are truly new or innovative. The truth is that there is nothing trendy about conservation. It's a simple concept which is timeless. Protect the things you love.
Nicole Parisi-Smith created the Pop Culture Activist blog after she returned from the 2008 Jack Johnson "Sleep Through the Static" tour to run a voter registration campaign for HeadCount. Nicole is a long time Surfrider Foundation Activists who has volunteered in our San Francisco and DC Chapters.