Middle to High School
Teens, this space is for you! Your voices bring moral authority and are a powerful chorus demanding and creating climate justice.
Talk Climate resource pages are designed to support justice-based climate education, support empowering climate conversations, and to offer ways to take climate action.
"You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect." -Wangari Maathai
Youth-Led climate justice organizations
Climate Reality (Adult led organization that provides climate trainings to youth)
Reading Resources
Articles: Youth Activism
Climate protesters gather in person and online for Fridays for Future (Guardian, 2021)
Young people don’t need a degree to fight for their future (Earthjustice, 2020)
The UN cancelled its 2020 climate summit. Youth held one anyway (Grist)
6 tips for becoming a youth activist -- as told by a youth activist (Grist)
Indigenous youth believes every person can make a “gigantic change for the world.” (Parent Map)
Teen girls took over the climate movement. What happens next? (Grist)
Articles: Youth Lawsuits
Meet a young activist who’s suing the government over climate change (Mashable, 2020)
15 Canadian kids sue their government for failing to address climate change (Inside Climate News, 2019)
Articles: Citizen Science
Seeing climate change firsthand? She’ll help you document it (Grist)
How do you create the conservationists of tomorrow? Get kids outside (Grist, 2021)
Artilcles: Climate Education
Our house is on fire - time to teach climate justice (Rethinking Schools, 2019)
Bioneers Youth Leadership and Education
Earth Guardians Educational Resources
Articles: Creative Engagement
Doomscroll no more. These climate-concerned TikTok stars are here to inspire you (Grist, 2020)
Warming trends: the ‘cranky uncle game’ (Inside Climate News, 2020)
How comics can help us talk about climate change (Grist, 2016)
It’s kids vs. parents in this award-nominated climate novel (Grist)
Podcasts, Videos & Music
Podcasts
How to Save the Planet (Full Series)
International Youth Climate Podcast (Full Series)
Under the Surface: Attacks on School Strikers (Climate Psychology Alliance, 2021)
Youth for a Green New Deal (Warm Regards, 2019)
Teens Adapt to Climate Change (America Adapts, 2017)
Rebellion means suing the government (Terrestrial, KUOW, 2017)
“Happy Earth Day!” with climate advocate Jaysa Hunter-Mellers (I Want What She Has, 2020)
Jamie Margolin on powering the youth climate movement (Climate Pod, 2020)
Full Length Films
There is no Planet B (2021)
Youth v Gov (2020)
I am Greta (2020)
2040 (2019)
The Biggest Little Farm (2018)