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Anjali Appadurai, a predecessor to Greta, gives powerful speech to UN Conference on Climate

Anjali Appadurai spoke eloquently and unapologetically at the United Nations Conference in South Africa, in 2011, on Climate Change. Advocates such as Anjali have helped pave the way to the break through agreements made on this issue, such as the Paris Agreement.  In her speech, Anjali urges UN members to listen to the science that […]

May 2nd, 2017  |  Published in Africa, Environment, US and Canada


Anjali Appadurai: Calls on UN Conference for Climate Change delegates to “Get it Done!”

Few students could imagine speaking at a United Nations Conference on Climate Change with thousands of delegates from all over the world, but that is exactly what Anjali Appadurai, a student from a small college in Maine, did. And her speech bluntly called out the failures of the adult delegates to agree on meaningful solutions […]

April 23rd, 2013  |  Published in Activism, Africa, Environment  |  1 Comment


Videos with Transcripts

Classes that teach the English language are encouraged to use these videos with accompanying transcripts to practice for year-end exams in which students listen to a minute and a half of English audio and then answer comprehension questions.  Closed captions are available on each video as well. Transcript of Cecilia Cassini talking about her project, […]

January 23rd, 2014  |  Published in


Massive youth-led effort underway to force action on Climate Change

A mammoth youth-led movement is underway to ramp up the pressure on governments across organize the muscle of tens of thousands of young people to force governments to answer why they haven’t acted on climate change yet.  Five hundred students from more than one hundred countries are gathering in Istanbul, Turkey beginning Monday, June 24, 2013, to […]

June 23rd, 2013  |  Published in Activism, Environment


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