Former Vice President Al Gore trained me to become a certified Climate Reality Leader earlier this month in Denver, CO, and it was one of those life-changing experiences that spawned new energy, ideas, and set the course of my future actions. For the sake of this story, which will be one in a series, and […]
Nothing could be more important than the global climate talks taking place in Paris this week. We have to act fast if we want to save this planet, and young people clearly know that they are the ones that are the most effected. In our upcoming 4th Annual Sustainability and the State of Youth Culture […]
A one-day film challenge has been set-up by a unique partnership between Vimeo and Connect4Climate for November 29th, 2015, just before the climate takes to take place in Paris. Given all of the new young video producers and filmmakers among our readers, this is a great opportunity to express your message about global climate change […]
The Oasis Water Challenge is one of the most original and educationally fun on-site festival sustainability programs we’ve seen in awhile. At the FYF festival in Los Angeles, along with Global Inheritance, they called upon attendees to do something 99% of them had never done: taste the difference between recycled wastewater, desalinated ocean water, LA […]
At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, 2015, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Williams and producer Kevin Wall said they are putting together a music event, dubbed Live Earth — Road to Paris, to build support for protecting the climate. The Live Earth locations include China, Sydney, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, […]
On Sunday, September 21, 2014, many of us at Label Networks participated in the People’s Climate March in New York City in support of bringing attention to issues surrounding global climate change. It was an amazing experience beyond anyone’s expectations as we suddenly realized that we were in the midst of making history as part […]
In our upcoming 3rd Annual Sustainability and the State of the Future Youth Culture Study 2014, we reveal a number insightful shifts in the youth culture marketplace based on their concerns, buying patterns, trends, and ideas regarding global climate change, a world of limited fossil fuels, and expectations from brands regarding sustainability. In this story, […]
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland, was already dealing with complications from the very beginning, but yesterday, November 21, 2013, a walk-out of some 800 people, mostly young, from organizations such as 350.org, Greenpeace, WWF, Oxfam, Friends of the Earth, and others, left the conference in an act of protest wearing T-shirts […]
One of the best ways to spread the word about global warming and to gather future support for more sustainable living towards combating climate change is to reach future consumers, namely, global youth culture via music. The Artists Project Earth (APE) and World Bank’s Connect4Climate (C4C) collaboration is doing just that, most recently by joining […]