Top Youth Activism Victories of 2008
By Jamilah King, Kristina Rizga, Tomas Palermo, WireTap, December 27, 2008
In a year that saw war, violence, human rights abuses and environmental degradation, WireTap also found powerful examples of young people making a real difference.
Best WireTap Stories of 2008
By The Editors, WireTap, December 22, 2008
Our editors' and readers' favorite stories, columns, blogs and videos of the year!
It's Easy Being Green
By CAP Staff, Campus Progress, December 18, 2008
Ten tips for greener holiday gifts.
You Voted. Now What? Juan Reynosa's Environmental Mission
By Kristina Rizga, TheNation.com, WireTap, December 10, 2008
If you want cleaner air, water and less poverty, Juan Reynosa, a community organizer with New Mexico Youth Organized, thinks you should consider environmental justice work.
(Video) You Voted. Now What? Go Green
VideoNation, November 24, 2008
Kristina Rizga introduces the series "You Voted, Now What?" -- launched in partnership with The Nation -- and talks about the Clean Energy and Green Jobs Youth Movement.
The Promise of the Green Jobs
By KJ Meyer, WireTap, October 29, 2008
The nation's emerging green economy helped Alvarro Jasso move from the confines of a jail to a well-paid job fixing windmills.
Green Jobs Now
Green For All, September 16, 2008
Urge the presidential candidates to make green jobs a national priority.
China Marches to a Green Beat
By Jamie Henn, WireTap, August 12, 2008
Students from around the world gather in China's march to protect the environment. Learn how youth are looking beyond Olympic feuds to forge a sustainable future.
Corn in the U.S.A.
Global Action Project, June 10, 2008
How does genetically modified corn impact your community?
Seeds of Change: Urban Gardens and Community Roots
By Suemedha Sood, WireTap, June 5, 2008
The urban agriculture movement grows, with strong youth roots.
Money Changers: Youth Tackle A Tough Economy
By Andrew Green, WireTap, June 3, 2008
Millennials organize grassroots responses to the economic challenges plaguing their generation.
Green Pathways
Green For All, May 29, 2008
A working class community in California uses solar energy to rebuild -- and heal -- their community.
Schools Go Sustainable: Greening College Food Services
By Talia Berman, WireTap, May 5, 2008
National trends for sustainable eating grow as students look to each other for aid and inspiration
Building A Better Pencil
By Allie Schratz, Golden Gate [X]press, February 20, 2008
A student-run business brings green supplies to campus bookstores.
No Breathing Room: The Asthma Epidemic
By Adam Doster, WireTap, January 15, 2008
Another cost of global climate change and air pollution: an asthma epidemic. Low-income youth are particularly vulnerable, hindering their educational and economic prospects. Now that the data is in, what’s being done?
Greening The Ghetto
By Erica Williams, Campus Progress, December 19, 2007
Environmental Justice Activist Majora Carter on the connections between poverty and the environment, and the benefits of being labeled a genius.
The Green Generation
By Adrienne Maree Brown, WireTap, November 16, 2007
The current generation is the first to have grown up entirely in a world confronting global climate change. What do today's youth have to say about their lives and future?
Tomorrow's Science Today
By Scott Thill, WireTap, October 30, 2007
Technological advances straight out of Star Wars just around the corner have the power to alleviate global warming and other crises, but will these inventions be used strictly for good?
Up In Flames
By Scott Thill, WireTap, July 4, 2007
The pages of George Monbiot's Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning provide readers little shade from its bleak findings about climate change.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
By Anand Gopal, WireTap, June 25, 2007
Students in West Virginia stare down the toxic silo of Big Coal. How will youth cope with the destruction of Appalachia and future environmental legacies? WireTap treks to the Mountain State to find out.
