Brower Youth Awards
About this original series
Each year, the Brower Youth Awards recognizes six young environmental champions – ages 13 to 22 – for their extraordinary efforts to defend the planet and build a more just and sustainable future. The Brower Youth Award is the most prestigious prize in North America recognizing achievement in environmental advocacy by young people.
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# Episodes
32 episodes -
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Episodes of Brower Youth Awards
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Sierra Crane-Murdoch at the 2009 Brower Youth Aw...
Sierra wins the 2009 Brower Youth Award - http://www.broweryouthawards.org - for her work to establish Power Past Coal for a clean energy future.
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Release date
Dec 8, 2009
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Runtime
03:12
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Alec Loorz at the 2009 Brower Youth Awards
Alec wins the 2009 Brower Youth Award - http://www.broweryouthawards.org - for his work forming Kids vs. Global Warming to tackle climate change.
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Release date
Dec 8, 2009
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Runtime
04:02
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Hai Vo at the 2009 Brower Youth Awards
Hai Vo wins the 2009 Brower Youth Award - http://www.broweryouthawards.org - for his work to transform the purchasing of food at the University of California system, with the Real Food Challenge.
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Release date
Dec 8, 2009
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Runtime
05:04
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Diana Lopez at the 2009 Brower Youth Awards
Diana receives the 2009 Brower Youth Award - http://www.broweryouthawards.org - for her work launching the Roots of Change community garden in San Antonio, Texas.
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Release date
Dec 7, 2009
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Runtime
02:48
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Sierra Crane-Murdoch: 2009 Brower Youth Awards
Sierra co-founded Power Past Coal along with forty grassroots activists personally impacted by the mining, processing and burning of coal. The team publicized or coordinated at least one action protesting coal everyday for the first 100 days of President Obama’s administration – eventually numbering 300 actions in total. Over the course of the project, over twenty new coal plant permits and five mountaintop removal applications were denied or suspended, while the EPA committed to regulating ca...
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Release date
Dec 7, 2009
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Runtime
04:36
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Robin Bryan at the 2009 Brower Youth Awards
Robin Bryan accepts the 2009 Brower Youth Award - http://www.broweryouthawards.org - for his work in helping protect nearly a million acres of boreal forest in Manitoba from industrial logging.
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Release date
Dec 7, 2009
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Runtime
02:11
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Robin Bryan - 2009 Brower Youth Awards
Robin helped pursuade the Manitoba government to ban logging in four of the five parks with logging operations, helping to place nearly a million acres of boreal forest off-limits to industrial logging. He won the 2009 Brower Youth Award for his work: http://www.broweryouthaward.org.
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Release date
Dec 7, 2009
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Runtime
04:17
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Hai Vo - 2009 Brower Youth Award recipient
Hai Vo co-founded the Real Food Challenge (RFC) at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), and worked with the University of California to develop a system-wide, institutional commitment to 20% real food procurement by the year 2020. Hai won the 2009 Brower Youth Award for his work: http://www.broweryouthaward.org.
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Release date
Dec 7, 2009
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Runtime
03:54
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Adarsha Shivakumar at the 2009 Brower Youth Awards
Adarsha receives the prestigious Brower Youth Award - http://www.broweryouthaward.org - for his work establishing Project Jatropha, to provide a more ecologically- and environmentally-sound alternative to tobacco production in India.
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Release date
Dec 7, 2009
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Runtime
03:24
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Alec Loorz - 2009 Brower Youth Award recipient
Alec first saw Al Gores documentary An Inconvenient Truth when he was 12 years old. Inspired by the message, Alec wrote to the organization and applied to be a presenter, but was denied due to his age. Undeterred, Alec created his own presentation and gave it over 30 times before Mr. Gore took notice. Eventually, Mr. Gore invited Alec to his next training session and Alec became the youngest presenter with The Climate Project. Since then, Alec has gone on to give upwards of 100 presentations t...
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Release date
Oct 23, 2009
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Runtime
04:26
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