The calling from the youths <<back

I came across http://www.ecoforeducation.com/, a very lovely, small website launched by Nicholas, a pupil at Northwood Hills Elementary School in Texas. In his website, Nicholas proposes supermarkets to contribute 1% of the total grocery bill to the local school district anytime someone agrees not to use the store’s grocery bags. “Help us to make this dream a reality.  Let’s start the Eco For Education challenge together!” Nicholas said on his site.

Nicholas is not alone. Young children from different parts of the world are taking initiatives on reducing plastic shopping bags’ environmental impacts. Here are a few examples:

A group of students from Kent Denver School lined up two senators to sponsor a bill that will eliminate plastic shopping bags in Colorado.

Enthusiastic students from 8 high schools around Dunedin, New Zealand rolled out the red carpet (literally) to celebrate people who are using reusable bags last June. They made an ‘Oscar-like’ photoshoot street theatre, and approached people on the street to swap their plastic bags for the students’ creatively designed reusable bags for free.

In Canada, students at Cecil Rhodes School produced a video promoting the banning of plastic bags, and asked the mayor for a meeting to discuss a concrete approach to reduce plastic bag usage.

Students at Sighthill Primary in the UK designed and produced their own reusable shopping bags, and raised funds for other environmental projects with the bags.

Students in Shanghai China conducted road shows at different schools, and called for reusable bag use in every family in the city.

The list goes on…

Impressive!

To some extent, they make me feel pressured. If young and innocent kids can take such initiatives to help save environment, should grown-ups like us make more conscious efforts for the cause? At the same time, I am pleased and relieved. A more eco-minded generation is growing up. They are going to make the world, which will belong to them, a greener and better place to live. May they, and all of us, follow this calling and pass it on to future generations to come.

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