Bay Area Youth Climate Summit Newsletter: November 2021 |
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Happy November! Sending best wishes to you this holiday season, whatever you celebrate! |
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TEAM APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSING SOON! Calling all youth activists interested in leadership!!! As the end of 2021 nears, we want to give students an opportunity to join our team when 2022 starts! Joining the BAYCS Team gives great leadership opportunities as well as chances to take initiative within the climate movement! Through team meetings every other month, you get to meet new people while gaining experience in the teams they select. Please read more about the different teams here! | | |
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REVIEW WHAT HAPPENED AT COP26 AS you may know, This past month a HUGE event for climate change happened @cop26uk! COP26 (aka Conference of the Parties) is an annual gathering held by the UN that is happening in Glasgow, Scotland this year. In addition to this @how2saveaplanet we recommend listening to, check out this report from the Wild Center all about the nuts and bolts of COP26! | | |
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OUR *UPDATED* SUSTAINABLE GIFT GUIDE You're not gonna wanna miss this one! We've have TWO years worth of gift ideas that keep sustainability in mind! Gifting something that promotes a cleaner future is the most invaluable gift you can give. |
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YOUTH ACTIVISM FROM GLASGOW TO BAY AREA! Greenbelt Alliance, one of BAYCS’s presenters at the 2021 Virtual climate summit has written a blog about youth activism while spotlighting three of our own members! Read more at the link below! | | |
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BAYCS BOOK & TOY DRIVE BAYCS is partnering with local high schools and the Children’s Book Project to collect books for kids in need in time for the holiday season! From 11/29 to 12/10, there will be drop off locations at Lick-Wilmerding, San Domenico, Galileo, Alameda, Berkeley, College Prep, and more. We would especially appreciate any books that include people of color or are written in other languages! Unfortunately we cannot accept ripped, torn, dirty, annotated books, textbooks/ learning materials, non-fiction books older than ten years, and some criteria. Click the link below to see exactly what we can and cannot accept and more details about drop off locations. | | |
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OPPORTUNITIES & TAKE ACTION |
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WANT YOUR OWN PHONE BANKING SCRIPT? This past month for COP26 Week of Action BAYCS and Earth Echo called our representatives and senators to support the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act at Albany High School, St. Ignatius, and Lick Wilmerding High School. We had a wonderful turnout and lots of calls were made! Thank you all for coming! Below is our phone banking script if you wanted to call on your own- just bookmark or save this document link! | | |
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HAVE YOU HEARD OF TEAM SEAS? Team Seas is removing 30 million pounds of trash from our oceans by raising $30 million by Jan 1 2021. This global campaign is removing trash from oceans, beaches and rivers with help from the Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup. Previously Mr. Beast and Mark Rober started the #TeamTrees movement similar to this new campaign with Team Seas only with planting 20 million trees by 2020. Raising over 23 million dollars they are headed to fight their next global challenge: plastic pollution. | | |
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K-12 COASTAL ART & POETRY CONTEST! California students in Kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to submit artwork or poetry with a California coastal or marine theme to the Coastal Art & Poetry Contest. Entries can be submitted online until midnight January 31st, 2022. Click the link below for rules, flyers, instructions and any other important information about cash PRIZES and RECOGNITION! | | |
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