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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

Amira Odeh, 2013 Brower Youth Award Winner
December 10, 2013
As a student the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, Amira Odeh saw that students were buying disposable plastic water bottles because of the poor condition of water fountains on campus.photo of a young woman Odeh had experienced the impacts of water scarcity when she was growing up in Puerto Rico's Bayamon municipality, so she decided to try to change her peers' wasteful habits. She spearheaded a successful campaign to get the university to install new drinking fountains in every building. She also worked to educate students about the impacts of using disposable water bottles. More students now drink tap water available for free on campus. Odeh believes her most significant accomplishment has been to get the university to commit to maintain the condition of campus water fountains and consider a proposal to ban the sale of nonreusable water bottles on campus. Odeh's campaign is the first environmental change campaign on a Puerto Rican college campus instigated by students, instead of the university itself.