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Let's hear from our children, and their advocates, on the social, environmental, cultural, and economic concerns around sustainability and the call to always act responsibly and with the next seven generations in mind. The collection will also feature, from time to time, adults who are speaking on behalf of children. 

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Curated by mokiethecat

Alexandria Gordon, 2021 Brower Youth Awards Winner
October 15, 2021
INSPIRING CAMPUSES TO GO PLASTIC-FREE During her second week at Eckerd College, Alexandria Gordon began working with the student-run nonprofit Florida PIRG to register young people to vote. Her efforts helped increase voter turnout by 350 percent at her local precinct during the 2018 elections. Encouraged by this success, Gordon, 21, decided to use her new organizing skills to address Eckerd’s plastic pollution problem. She launched a campaign through Florida PIRG to get the college to sign the “Break Free From Plastic Pledge” and eliminate all nonessential single-use plastics. After months of campaigning, Eckerd College became the first campus in the nation to implement the pledge. Gordon now works with campuses from coast to coast to help them adopt their own version of the pledge and is working to build support for a federal Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act. http://www.broweryouthawards.org/