The First Post

Hello everyone! This is very exciting because it is my first blog post ever. About anything. So I thought I would start by talking about where my inspiration came from to start this blog. Today I returned from a four day Student Climate and Conservation Congress, run by the Green Schools Alliance. The event brought together 89 teenagers from across the country (and Korea!) to learn about the issues that plague our environment and to share our individual visions, goals, and ideas for how our generation can solve these problems. We gathered at the beautiful National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia and I personally had an incredible four days. I met so many passionate and creative people my age, heard so many empowering speakers (including Robert Kennedy, Jr.!), and put so many hours into discussing this so-called green revolution. Even more hours went into making three short videos with a group of eight other kids about the problems and the solutions that we discussed. We all returned home today with personal action plans to implement in our schools and in our daily lives, plans to become the leaders of our green (I mean lime) generation. Of course, after I came home, I went into withdrawal, missing all the passion and excitement that filled the air at the NCTC. I had to do something, so I started this blog. We'll see where it goes!