Find something to be happy about today (Saturday May 3, 2014)

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The future is in their hands...
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Thirteen-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is the youth director of Earth Guardians, a Colorado group that involves young people in fighting climate change. He's well qualified for the role, having been an environmental activist since the age of six.

Martinez looks for ways to make environmental activism appealing to young people.
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When 12-year-old Madison Kimrey isn't juggling schoolwork, voice lessons, and drama rehearsals, she's speaking out to protect voting rights for young people. She lives in N.C. and asked Governor Pat McCrory for a meeting to discuss his recent elimination of voter pre-registration for teenagers. He ignored her request and she stated to the press that that "isn't the kind of leadership that our state deserves."

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Fifth-grader Olivia Bouler started painting pictures of birds in exchange for donations after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Her efforts raised $200,000 for restoration projects.

Read more about these three young activists who have found creative ways to tackle issues important to our future.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/education-uprising/this-fifth-grader-raised-thousands-to-clean-up-oil-spill
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[PumpkinAle]

1. Thanks for posting

it is so heartening to know that we do have a future generation who are defending the earth.

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2. They are out there

Hopefully shining some light on them will encourage others to do the same.

[lunatica]

3. It's all about education

If anyone bothers to let children know what the problem is and that they can actually contribute to the solution, then guess what? They get into it. Only a reactionary republican doesn't have the brains to figure that out.