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Claes Nobel: Celebrate Malala’s spirit of youth

Claes Nobel: Celebrate Malala’s Spirit of Youth USA Today December 10, 2014 Jan. 3, 2009, was a historic date for young people worldwide. It was the day that 11-year-old Malala Yousafzai’s first BBC blog post was published, under a pseudonym, exposing the daily struggles for the rights of girls in the Swat Valley in Pakistan. […]

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Claes Nobel Addresses 2013 Envision Inauguration Event in Washington D.C. — The Power of Hope

Claes Nobel emphasized the power of hope to the young audience as exemplified by the Nobel Peace Prize. Claes Nobel spoke on “The Power of Hope” to over on 1,300 students from around the country at the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Conference in Washington D.C. sponsored by Envision EMI. “116 years after the death of Alfred

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Green Solutions lead to “Peace” in the Middle East — Students lead the way

By Marcus Nobel UnitedEarth.us Jan 7, 2012 One of the main premises of Earth Ethics is that we need a new set of “values” to deal with our current set of problems… and some of these problems are ancient. Recently young student scholars from the Middle East partcipated in a US funded five-week program to

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Students Create Green Club to Promote Recycling, Saving the Earth

By Stephanie Rex patch.com October 6, 2011 Students from Edgewood and Forest Hills started a club at Sacred Heart Elementary in Shadyside to encourage others to recycle every day. Two students at Sacred Heart Elementary School are determined to make a difference through a recycling club they initiated in an effort to help save the

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Victoria Park C.I. student gets an environmental learning experience

By FANNIE SUNSHINE www.insidetoronto.com Sep 02, 2011 Lea Leung’s mother was on Cathay Pacific’s website to buy a ticket to Shanghai for one of her kids when she came across the airline’s Green Explorer 2011 new youth program. Launched in May, the program aims to give young people a better understanding of environmental issues and

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A Day to Celebrate Being Green

By Leslie Friday www.bu.edu/today 09.15.2011 BU sponsors sustainability festival, Carbon Day It’s a good day to be green. The University is sponsoring two events today designed to promote eco-friendly lifestyles and environmental education: the sustainability@BU Festival, at the George Sherman Union Plaza, and Carbon Day, in Copley Square. The second annual sustainability@BU Festival, running from

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Students grow from community experience

By Britteny Dee www.statenews.com 09/06/2011 This summer, Michael Malloy left the green of MSU’s campus to introduce an environmental initiative in Metro Detroit. Malloy, a social relations and policy sophomore, spent his summer working in Detroit suburb Highland Park, Mich., as a participant of the Green Economy Leadership Training, or GELT, program. Participants took part

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Updated Tate water fountains save the environment one water bottle at a time

By HEIDI GHOLAMHOSSEINI redandblack.com (University of Georgia) August 29, 2011 The new water bottle refilling stations on campus do more than merely refilling bottles. Though it takes dollars to implement these new water fountains in University facilities, the new refill stations actually save money in the long term.[snip] The first water refilling station was installed

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