Earth Day Is Every Day Virtual Panel
NSHSS co-founder Claes Nobel, who is known to use “Good Earth to you!” as his favorite greeting, encourages all of us to treat every day as if it were Earth Day by taking action and doing our part to preserve, protect, and tend to this wonderful planet we call home.
For Earth Day this year, NSHSS hosted a virtual panel of three NSHSS scholarship winners and moderated by Captain Planet! Each of the student panelists earned scholarships or grants for their creative solutions to the environmental issues in their communities and the globe! The Captain Planet Foundation was founded based on the critically-acclaimed animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers and now works collaboratively to engage and empower young people to be problem-solvers for the planet.
In this special Earth Day conversation on April 21, the panelists talked about what inspired them to get involved in environmental issues, the inception of their projects, what they did in high school, college, or internships to give back to their community and promote sustainability, discuss a handful of ways students could get involved in their local communities to give back to our planet, and more, followed by a live Q&A!
Watch the recording below.
Meet the Panel
Earth Minions is a student-led environmental initiative founded in August of 2020. The organization seeks to educate youth about various environmental issues such as water pollution, air pollution, environmental racism, etc.
“Zero Waste Initiative” was created with the aim to rescue food waste and reduce food insecurity while promoting environmental sustainability. The goal is to build a growing and sustaining food rescue and supply chain.
Trash Pirates is an ocean conservation non-profit organization whose mission is to clean up Florida beaches, reefs, and waterways. The vision is to educate and incentivize the public to become passionate about ocean conservation.
Diego Arreola Fernández, 19, is a passionate public speaker, educator, human rights and environmental activist from Mexico City. He's the Founder and President of Green Speaking, an organization that uses a combination of science and impactful communication to educate children and youth on environmental topics, as well as effective communication skills, forming comprehensive and well-informed leaders, ready to change the world! Diego is completely convinced that the community he's cultivating, from Mexico to the world and from the world to Mexico, would become a global union of cooperation and equity, and will eventually attain the necessary change the world so desperately needs. Diego is a student at University of Toronto.