Four West Australian Young People who will be representing Australia at the Bright Green Youth Conference – United Nations Climate Change Conference 11-13 August 2009 will be doing their last practical environmental work by planting reeds along the South Perth foreshore on Thursday between 10am-12pm
Samantha Fielder (15) from Kalgoorlie, Alexander Craig (15) South Perth and Luke McMillian (15) from Como of Millennium Kids and Lewis Whitehurst (16) from Riverton of South Perth Youth Network (SPYN) will be travelling to Sonderburg, Denmark for the UN Youth conference.
Bright Green Youth is the youth counterpart of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen in December. During the Conference, the West Australians will canvas the opinions and ideas of young people from around the world on Climate Change and they actions they would like to see take place to remedy it.
“Since 2008 Millennium Kids has asked hundreds of kids about what they liked and what they did not like about their community. Climate Change was a major concern in every community, so we developed the Big Switch Experiment to help kids make positive change” said Wesley College student, Alexander Craig.
Our Australian representatives will be telling the world all about the Millennium Kids’ Big Switch Experiment a kid-driven initiative that allows young people to have a say about Climate Change and create a map of change to ‘switch’ people’s thinking and get them to make more environmentally sustainable choices.
“The conference will also give us the opportunity to tell other kids about our project the Big Switch Experiment and they will be able to go on our blog – www.thebigswitchexperiment.blogspot.com and add their ideas to the project,” he said.
The students are really excited to be giving a voice to Australian young people about Climate Change on a world scale. “This is our chance to tell the world about how we are doing our bit to combat Climate Change through the Big Switch Experiment,” said Samantha Fielder from John Paul College, Kalgoorlie.
“Millennium Kids is about young people having a voice in the community, and they are giving us the opportunity to attend the UN Bright Green Youth Conference to represent the voices of young people all over WA.”
The fares for all participants have been sponsored by the City of South Perth, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Rotary Club, Wesley College and other sponsorship money is forthcoming.
Samantha Fielder (15) from Kalgoorlie, Alexander Craig (15) South Perth and Luke McMillian (15) from Como of Millennium Kids and Lewis Whitehurst (16) from Riverton of South Perth Youth Network (SPYN) will be travelling to Sonderburg, Denmark for the UN Youth conference.
Bright Green Youth is the youth counterpart of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen in December. During the Conference, the West Australians will canvas the opinions and ideas of young people from around the world on Climate Change and they actions they would like to see take place to remedy it.
“Since 2008 Millennium Kids has asked hundreds of kids about what they liked and what they did not like about their community. Climate Change was a major concern in every community, so we developed the Big Switch Experiment to help kids make positive change” said Wesley College student, Alexander Craig.
Our Australian representatives will be telling the world all about the Millennium Kids’ Big Switch Experiment a kid-driven initiative that allows young people to have a say about Climate Change and create a map of change to ‘switch’ people’s thinking and get them to make more environmentally sustainable choices.
“The conference will also give us the opportunity to tell other kids about our project the Big Switch Experiment and they will be able to go on our blog – www.thebigswitchexperiment.blogspot.com and add their ideas to the project,” he said.
The students are really excited to be giving a voice to Australian young people about Climate Change on a world scale. “This is our chance to tell the world about how we are doing our bit to combat Climate Change through the Big Switch Experiment,” said Samantha Fielder from John Paul College, Kalgoorlie.
“Millennium Kids is about young people having a voice in the community, and they are giving us the opportunity to attend the UN Bright Green Youth Conference to represent the voices of young people all over WA.”
The fares for all participants have been sponsored by the City of South Perth, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Rotary Club, Wesley College and other sponsorship money is forthcoming.
