XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ

has grown up in the Aztec tradition, and committed himself to protect a healthyenvironment and climate for future generations. Since the age of 6, Xiuh isknown on all continents for awakening his peers to recognizing Earth as a livingbeing and all life as sacred. Earth Guardian Clubs are springing up around theglobe, members run campaigns to ban pesticides from parks, stop fracking andprotect the environment, they organize training camps, create media, tool-kitsand sue their government for wrecking the climate Will you start the next club?

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Live the Earth Guardians' 50 Ways of Sustainable Lifestyle for aweek and report about your experience (Social Experiment)LEVEL 2 > Research the environmental aspects of Fracking, and your nationalsituation. Report your findings, and reflect about your stand about fracking.LEVEL 3 > Start an Earth Guardians local chapterLEVEL 4 > Are you determined to protect the biosphere? Study the Law forMaking Ecocide a Crime. Will you start a Local Focal Point for making it real?LEVEL 5 > Connect with a Sacred tradition you feel close to, start practicing.

MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Organize aPhilanthroParty for a Youth-LeadeR Webcast PartnerLEVEL 2 > Organize a PParty for a cause of your choice. Send us photos/videoLEVEL 3 > Start a LemonAID Warriors local chapter

LULU CERONE

– a girl from an adventure novel! When this heroine hears of starving communities,she makes sure to bring help for clean water. What differs her from you and meis that she called for a ‘water war’ between girls and boys, to see who couldraise more money through Lemonaid Stands. The battle spread like wildfire -throughout her community to 400 stands from coast to coast! You can feel thefun factor, right?! Thus were born the Lemonaid Warriors - always up for Partieswith a Purpose, rocking their ‘hood with water bucket marches, backyardcarnivals, music festivals. Of course, our heroine also has a rock band, and -have you met Boo-Lu in 'Monster High!'? It's her! This ghoul, erh, girl is unstop-pable. Lulu's heart is with the water crisis in Africa, but her mission is all aboutmobilizing her generation for combining fun, adventure and friendship for a life-style to change the world. 'Beautiful Beasts – may the PhilanthroParties begin!'

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CASSANDRA LIN

What do you do when you hear about climate change, clean energy solutions,and residents suffering from cold, harsh winters, while local resources are beingwasted and clogging drainage systems? ‘No time to wait!’ said fifth-graderCassandra Lin, as she combined a few threads for a perfect solution: Turn-Grease-Into-Fuel collects used cooking oils for recycling by biofuel companies.This system existed in San Francisco, but it was new to Westerly. So Cassandraand friends distributed thousands of flyers and calendars to restaurants, madeTV announcements, presentations, and now … a law! Business owners firstdoubted these 10 year-olds, but soon 10, 20, 100 restaurants started participating!TGIF has already donated their profit marge = $80,000 worth of heat to theneedy. Their mission is now scaling to their entire state, to universities, - andnow, they’ll train You to do it!

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Study Cassandra's resources above, then research the local situationof restaurant cooking oil recyclingLEVEL 2 > Start a TGIF local chapter

GABRIELLE POSARD

watched her sister working on a documentary film when a message got stuckin her mind: 'A quarter of the U.S. Population experiences hunger, yet 40% foodproduced is wasted.' At 12 years of age, Gabrielle started talking to grocersabout donating food that was near its sell-by-date. To alleviate legal liabilityconcerns, Gabrielle explained that President Clinton signed into law the GoodSamaritan Food Donation Act, protecting donors. Response has been amazing,impacts immediate. Her network of 4,000 picks up and distributes 20,000 poundsof food every month. "Food drives used to consist of non-perishable foods, lowin nutrition. We get foods with short shelf lives like fresh fruits and vegetables.People are so grateful, they get choked up because fresh produce is so expen-sive." Her logo has spread throughout San Diego County. Is your City next?

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > research and report your national statistics of food wasting, the localsituation of homelessness, poverty and hunger, also among youth, and howmany grocery stores, supermarkets and farmers markets do forward still goodfresh foods to food banksLEVEL 2 > do a Sandwich Run, distributing delicious, healthy sandwiches tohomeless people in the streets. Reflect your experience and share it with usLEVEL 3 > start a Donate Don't Dump local chapter

MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Do a book drive in support of Book With no Bounds. Do you liveoutside Canada? Make a fundraiser for their mailing costs.LEVEL 2 > Research the situation of tribal / underpriviledged populations inyour country and region. Organize a book drive for their school or youth club.LEVEL 3 > Start a Books With no Bounds local chapter. Go big, keep going!

JULIA AND EMMA MOGUS

have 1000’s of volunteering hours between them and they love to read. Whenthey learned that First Nation kids in remote fly-in communities of NorthernOntario have no access to any books at all, they remembered the famous quote‘My ticket out of a life in poverty was reading’. They started Books With NoBounds to collect and buy 1,000’s of new and ‘like new’ books, meet officials,arrange airline transportation, fundraise and pack around the clock. Schoolscontribute with great enthusiasm. One year later, 18,000 books have been sentto all 49 communities, thank you letters are streaming, the sisters receive giftsin return and are invited to visit the communities. ‘We have only started! We areTeen Sisters on a Mission, and everyone can help: by donating books, fundsfor postage, and starting enormous book drives for Tribal Nation children inYour country!"

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ROBYN HAMLYN

is not the only student who has seen films documenting how bad practices inbusiness and politics have led to water pollution, soaring prices, and very badhealth effects, even in her water rich country of Canada. But Robyn has turnedher shock into action! She joined a powerful coalition of experts and citizenswho have crafted a solution to safeguard water aquifers and rivers and provideabundant clean water for generations to come. Robyn is their youngest speakerasking town councils to become ‘Blue Communities’ by passing legislation thatwater services stay public, banning bottled water, and making clean water ahuman right. Hold your seat: Robyn has already made several cities turn Blue!She is training kids and teens like you to protect their water for the future. Hi5!

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Research Robyn's materials and your national and regional watersituation. Report to us, reflect and decide on your stand about your water future.LEVEL 2 > In Canada, decide whether you have the backbone to make stepsto turning your city into a Blue CommunityLEVEL 2 > If not in Canada: Research legislation, connect with leading waterorganizations, explore reactions to the Blue Communities approach and resolutionLEVEL 3 > Start a Blue Communities initiative in your nation

RACHEL PARENT

is a passionate advocate of healthy foods, full transparency and the right toknow what we are eating. When she learned about mounting evidence ofGenetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) risks to our health, the environmentand bee colonies, Rachel started speaking up. During tv interviews, as Rachelshows images of rats grossly disfigured by tumors, moderators ask in shock'What's wrong with these rats?' 'They were fed a diet of GMO corn, by Monsanto.'They developed cancers, immune system breakdowns, impotence, the worstdiseases. Even the epidemic of allergies and attention disorders is being linkedto GMOs. You find them in many products, also in candy bars and cereals.Rachel invites you to learn how to safeguard a world of healthy foods and joinKids Right to Know Rallies for demanding proper laws.

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Learn your facts, research reports of GMO hazards in your country.LEVEL 2 > Organize a Kids Right to Know March, with fun preparation, costumes,signs, and delicious freshly prepared goodies. Invite good journalists, shareyour experience, photos and videos with usLEVEL 3 > Start a Kids Right To Know Club local chapter and keep marching!LEVEL 4 > Learn about model solutions for creating food abundance: at homeand overseas, promote them to practitioners (YL Soil, Food & Farming issue)

MADISON AND RHIANNON

were preparing for their Girl Scout Bronze Award, when they discovered ashocking fact. And it was right in time for their favorite treat: Girl Scout cookies!The 11 year old friends were researching the endangered orangutan and foundthat the production of palm oil contributes to the destruction of the Orang Utans'rainforest habitat. In a powerful online campaign, they mobilized over 70,000people and generated such broad media coverage that Girl Scouts USA adopteda sustainable palm oil policy for their products as a result. This is a step in theright direction but the girls are not done yet. Madi and Rhiannon are workingto start a movement demanding responsible palm oil sources to ensure theprotection of the forests, animals, and people of Southeast Asia, South Americaand Africa. Join them in the fight!

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Learn about the impacts of unsustainable palm oil production, andresearch palm oil in your food sources. Collect voices for campaigns.LEVEL 2 > Live for 1 or 2 weeks without palm and vegetable oils (hidden palmoil), document your experience in our facebook stream (Social Experiment)LEVEL 3 > Research ethical institutions (like Girl Scouts) in your nation andstart a campaign for making their products ethical and sustainableLEVEL 4 > Support an Orang Utan Sanctuary / Clinic with a fundraiser

MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Learn about the potential hazards of GMO foods and research GMOpresence in your food sources. Collect voices for campaigns. Research localorganic grocery stores, farmers markets and contacts to farmersLEVEL 2 > Live for 1 or 2 weeks without GMOs. In the US or Canada, thisprobably means living without supermarkets and school menues. Your foodsources are organic stores, farmers markets and kind local farmers. Discovery!LEVEL 3 > Do a Face Your Farmer project. Visit local farmers, take lively, friendlyportrait photos, note their quotes about food, life and the people. Make anexhibit: online (send to us), at school and in public.LEVEL 3 > Combine your exhibit with a PhilanthroParty with delicious purelyfresh and self baked / cooked goodies. Will it turn into a Soupstock festival?LEVEL 4 > Start an awesome edible School Garden. Will it be a butterfly garden?Some schools even have bee hives! Get inspired by "Green Bronx Machine"!

ALICIA SERRATOS

has always had a heart for people, animals, gardening and yummy foods. Atage six, she had a revelation: "Did you know that some GMOs make bugs'tummies explode? That can't be good." When she found out that even the GirlScout cookies she was selling contain GMOs, she started asking Girl Scoutsto go GMO-free. Her petition has passed 10,000 signatures and there is no endin sight. Alicia is also active in her school garden and meets with her schoolprincipal for making school lunches more healthy. For this purpose, she isdeveloping a GMO-free cookbook, all menus cooked and tested by herself!

WYATT WORKMAN

was seven years-old when he learned about the grave threats and impacts onthe ocean from pollution and plastic waste. A lover of the ocean, its fascinatingcreatures, and the arts, Wyatt combined his passions and created a claymationmovie. Eight months later, the movie premiered, starring 70 clay actors andWyatt’s best friends. The event was a huge success! A party, a workshop, andfundraiser all in one, the day washed $2,800 into the treasure chest of Wyatt’sfavourite conservation society, Oceana. The original ‘actors’ sold, Wyatt createddrawings, a book, and T-shirt. His movie is a smash hit in classrooms everywhere.Make sure to watch it and take the Ocean Hero Pledge. Join Wyatt's initiative:educate children, show the movie, create clay heroes and have lots of fun!

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Take the Ocean Hero Pledge and live without plastics for 1 or 2weeks. Document your experience with a daily blog post (Social Experiment).LEVEL 2 > Organize a film screening and fundraiser as part of a family friendlyevent. This can be a school festival, green festival, children's day... Tips: createa tent, show the film every 10 minutes. Create a set of clay film actors for displayand sale. Will you even create scenes in frames? Manage a big table with clayfish making activities for children. Most important: Wear Fish Costumes! Yes!LEVEL 3 > Ask restaurants to only offer plastic straws on demandLEVEL 4 > Go for a Ban of Plastic Bags in your city. Other cities have done it!

ZANDER SRODES

was fooling around on the beach shooting fireworks, as a voice boomed throughthe dark ‘Stop it! Don’t you know it disturbs baby turtles trying to find their pathto the water?’ An 'old lady' appeared, her authority so strong that the party wasover. The next morning, as Zander walked into his kitchen and saw the samelady having coffee with his Mom, shock turned to amazement as he listened toLinda Soderquist, the State Permit Holder for Florida beach turtles, explainingthe turtles’ paramount need for safe hatching grounds. From this day, Zander'sworld has revolved around sea turtles and protection initiatives. At age 11, hecreated Turtle Talks, an educational Activity Book. 250,000 free copies havebeen distributed to schools worldwide! Find out how to create Good TurtleBeaches in support of Zander’s projects. We can do it - and it’s amazing!

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Study and create a global map showing the interconnectedness ofturtles, hatching beaches and marine biodiversity. Exhibit it. Make it nice in 3dwith turtles, ships. Show turtle friendly fisheries and killing fields.LEVEL 2 > Organize a fundraiser / PhilanthroParty for sponsoring Turtle Talkbooks for kindergarten, schools and public libraries of your cityLEVEL 3 > Organize a fundraiser / PhilanthroParty for a Turtle Beach project.Will it be Zander's partner community for education, a library and more?LEVEL 4 > Lobby for turtle friendly fisheries referring to the model solutions.

OLIVIA TAYLOR'S

journey started with a field trip to the park to look at some birds. Can you imaginehow awesome those little green birds were?! Olivia was hooked. At age 11,another magnificient bird entered here life: the Bearded Vulture. Only 200 pairsremain in the wild! Can you guess what their biggest threat is? The portrayalof vultures in popular media as ugly and dangerous. So Olivia set out to showhow that is all wrong. They are beautiful harmless beings and they even protectus from disease. When she met some vultures up-close and personal, hercommitment was honoured: a splendid young bird was named after her. WhenOlivia's vulture was found dead, Olivia climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and started‘4 Elements Conservation’ in support of more new friends: Sharks, White Lions& Rhinos! Olivia tells you: The Truth is: they need your help. NOW!

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Research and create an Exhibit of Awesome and Beauty aboutVultures and Sharks at school, other schools, in public. Include media fromShark Angels and Shark Week. Collect supportive voices for campaigns.LEVEL2 > Organize a screening of SharkWater and include a PhilanthroParty fundraiserfor a shark protection project, like Shark Angels.LEVEL 3 > Research regions of extensive shark killings and finning. If you livein such a region lobby for banning shark finning and soup (ex. Hong Kong).LEVEL 4 > Start support for a Sanctuary of sharks, vultures, rhinos or lions.

ABBIE BARNES

is a passionate nature lover, film maker and campaigner. Abbie's dream is toinform and mobilize her generation to rise against the epidemic destruction ofour gran world for the benefit of a few. Abbie has started with films about plasticsin our oceans, unsustainable palm oil farming, deforestation and extinction ofOrang Utans, and can't wait to film young heroes creating the world they wishto see. Will you be among them? Abbie is also ready to share her skills withaspiring young mediamakers, eager to merge their passion for the Earth, activismand media for something new. We are going to offer online trainings, together.If you start realizing that your creative genius makes best sense when sparkingaction by millions, we are happy to pioneer this new media culture with you!

MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Gather the most inspirational video clips about positive change thatyou know, and analyze what makes them so magical. Share results with us.LEVEL 2 > Organize a Change Cinema Session, be it at school, a festival orhome party. Build links to the real causes and organizations in them, andgenerate tangible support, by raising money or other. Be awesome!LEVEL 3 > Create a creative screening in public. Ideas: Nighttime projections.Video installations and screens at events. Be present, add an info table.LEVEL 4 > Do you have a vision for a short film? Sketch it, get started!

VOICE OF YOUTH

Every generation has its sound.

What is the sound of the Change Generation making is RISE to our greatestdreams, love and being our most awesome selves, beyond the limits of earliergenerations? it is definitely not to be heard on television. Nor in funny youtubeclips. And the old ... cannot sing it. There is a new, unprecedented generationrising, and we know we have found its sound. This is the beginning of a newculture of music, and we want you, my friend, to connect with it. And if you havethe Heart to Sing - get in touch. We share a mission!

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MISSIONS

LEVEL 1 > Feel into the music and sound. We seek music (and art) conveyingthe Spirit of the Change Generation: "I want to see this awesome planet andits beautiful people to live, and I will make it happen. We will make it happenas a generation!" Share the music with us! It can be by adults, too. Be aware:we do not seek 60's or angry music. We seek music that makes us RISE!LEVEL 2 > Tune into the spirit and lyrics - can you sing it? When you feel thespirit pumping, record your jam and share!LEVEL 3 > Now go 'live'. Perform rocking Voice of Youth songs on stage. It'scool to add other change spirit songs, and- of course - your own!

By now you knowthat we are wounderful friendsdoing wonderful things togetherwith You.

We also have OLDER friendswho address super tough issues,and their work is awesome. It takes killercourage. True hero style!

In fact, it's so awesome, new, andprofoundly changing inherited hurtfulways of broken societies that the peoplewho 'grew up with the old' don't get it,and don't support it.

But Youth Love it! YEAH!And WE CAN MAKE IT THRIVE!

Which again is ... SOOOO awesome.

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