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)
Podcasts, Videos & Music
Podcasts
“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)
How to Save the Planet (Full Series)
International Youth Climate Podcast (Full Series)
Full Length Films
There is no Planet B (2021)
Youth v Gov (2020)
I am Greta (2020)
2040 (2019)
Videos
Indigenous Climate Solutions (Action for Climate Emergency, 2022)
Cristal Ciscernos - Youth Perspectives on Environmental Justice (Tedx, 2020)
Frontline Youth - Fighting for Climate Justice (Climate Justice Alliance, 2020)
A New Era of the ClimateJustice Movement (Isha Clarke, Bioneers, 2019)
The Climate Strikers (Earthjustice, 2019)
Hilda Flavia Nakabuye - Young Ugandan Climate Activist (Time, 2019)
Jaelyn Hunter-Mellers - Words Have Power (Young Voices for the Planet, 2018)
Music
Stand Up, Stand Together (Xiuhtezcatl, 2020)
Moments (Xiuhtezcatl, 2020)
Tides Freestyle (Xiuhtezcatl, 2020)
Dear Brother Nahko and Medicine for the People, 2018)
Different World (Alan Walker, featuring Sofia Carson, 2018)
Truth to Power (One Republic, 2017)
The 1975 (The 1975)
Reading Resources
Articles
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)
Meet a young activist who’s suing the government over climate change (Mashable, 2020)
Doomscroll no more. These climate-concerned TikTok stars are here to inspire you (Grist, 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)
Teen girls took over the climate movement. What happens next? (Grist)
Seeing climate change firsthand? She’ll help you document it (Grist)
Seeing climate change firsthand? She’ll help you document it (Grist)