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A youth video contest
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Do you like to make things instead of buy them? Are you good at repairing used or broken items? Have you found creative solutions to conserving resources? Do you enjoy transforming found objects into art?
SHOW US WHAT YOU DO, WHY YOU’RE PASSIONATE ABOUT IT, AND HOW IT’S GOOD FOR THE PLANET!
So often, people living in the United States are referred to as “consumers,” because a big part of American culture is about shopping, buying, and purchasing.
But humans are so much more than just “consumers!”
Reusing, repurposing, repairing, and transforming can be a joyful, inspiring, and creative act!
(Plus, consuming less and using what you already have is a small but powerful way to positively impact our planet.)
Whatever it is that makes YOU “More Than A Consumer,” we want to know about it!
Create a 1 – 5 minute video showing how you or someone you know is “More Than A Consumer.”
It could be a mini documentary about a junk sculptor, an instructional video showing off your sewing skills, a music video about conserving water, or a stop-motion video using repurposed objects!
THE CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS...
The main thing to remember is that it needs to demonstrate or be about something that makes a positive impact on our planet!
You can enter your video into one of three age group categories:
Middle School (Ages 12-14)
High School (Ages 15-18)
Young Adult/College (Ages 19-25)
We will select three winners in each category, and their videos will be featured on the MY PLANET, MY VOICE YOUTUBE PAGE!
But, wait, there’s more!
All of the winners in each category will also receive a bundle of five seed packets!
To submit your video, please copy and paste a PRIVATE or UNLISTED YouTube or Vimeo link in the submission form below.
You can submit a video individually, or with a team! If you have team members in different age groups, you will need to decide in which category you want to submit. Each entrant or team can only submit in one category.
You can use your phone to film your video, but remember, this is for YouTube, so please shoot horizontally, NOT vertically (as tempting as it might be.)
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Who We Are
We want to collaborate with students, teens, and young content creators in the Bay Area to uplift your voices, concerns, actions, and stories about climate change, the environment, and your futures.
What We're Up To
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What You Can Do
The only way to make sure that My Planet, My Voice is a place you want to come to is to hear what you want to watch, learn, and contribute.
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For this final Living Downstream episode of the season, we're dropping in on three recent webinars:
One gathering considered Social and Environmental Justice at Upaya Zen Center in New Mexico. Another knitted together poetry and a powerful environmental film. It was put on by the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program. And a third event was cheekily called Toxics are a Drag, and was billed as a panel discussion on toxic beauty products in the queer community. That was hosted by one of the most important grass roots environmental groups in the country: New York City's WEACT for Environmental Justice.
Find more information about all these events in the Resources section of our website at https://norcalpublicmedia.org/resources/living-downstream-resource-guide
First, this show has an update on what's happening right now, the last week of October 2021. I called White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council member Dr. Robert Bullard, often called the father of environmental justice in this country. He spoke to me just days before leaving for COP26, the United Nations climate change conference set to start next week in Glasgow.
Read more: Seeking Justice: On Repeat, In Every Language, Unceasingly
This season, we’re looking at environmental racism across the country, and today that takes us to the sugarcane covered, oil-rich region at the intersection of southern Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico: Iberia Parish.
In this episode of Living Downstream, we will hear from people who say they are fighting over something that their families have already fought for generations to maintain: wealth. In this case, we’re talking about land: what grows on it and what lies under it.
We’ll hear from Black sugarcane farmers who say it’s become impossible to stay within the industry. These farmers describe the challenges of keeping their businesses afloat in an atmosphere of overwhelming racism, and they share with us how the stress is affecting their minds and bodies.
And we'll hear the poignant story of a woman who documents how oil was taken from her family's land, while the only compensation was a $10 contract she says is a fraud.
Gulf States Newsroom regional healthcare reporter Shalina Chatlani takes the story from here.
