Action for Nature - Young People Taking Action for the Environment

The other night while watching the news I heard about an organization called  Action For Nature (AFN.) This USA-based nonprofit organization "inspires young people to take action for the environment and protect the natural world in their own neighborhood and around the world."

Our local news highlighted one of the young people who had been named one of the 2006 International Young Eco-Heroes. Evan Green, 10 years old, inspired friends, neighbors, and acquaintances to participate in conservation fundraiser called Bowl the Planet. The end result...his team has "raised enough money to save more than 16 acres of threatened habitat in the Guanacaste Conservation Area of Costa Rica, which contains about 300,000 species of organisms in tropical dry forest, cloud forest, and rainforest - roughly 2.4% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity." What makes this story even more inspiring is that this young man has done this fundraiser for the last three years even though he suffers from a chronic disease. His passion for the earth keeps him going!

If you want a bit of inspiration, read about some of the other Eco-Heroes! Perhaps there's something you can add to your way of living life so that you can minimize your impact on the earth. For instance, I just learned that "Americans waste 4 millions gallons of gas a day driving on under-inflated tires." Are you driving on under-inflated tires? Visit 13 year old, Savannah Walters' website site "Pump 'em Up" (www.pumpemup.org) to find out how to save gas!