Nature-based Solutions Mitigating Emissions and Protecting Water Quality

Introducing the vital and wonderful work of the Action for the Climate Emergency...

The climate emergency is here. The world as we know it is running out of time and the window for small, incremental action has closed. Instead, we need an emergency-level response to avert climate catastrophe—and leaders with the courage and mandate to take bold action. Our critical window of opportunity to sound the alarm is ever-narrowing and the time to act is NOW.

We are meeting this moment with boldness and have changed our name to Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) to better reflect the full breadth of our work. Our evolved mission is to educate, inspire and support young people to lead the fight for their future. We achieve our mission by reaching tens of millions of young people with our programs each year, training a new generation of leaders, amplifying youth voices to shift the narrative, and increasing diverse youth participation in our democracy. 

ACE was founded in 2008 with the visionary (and at the time fringe) belief that to halt a global crisis, the climate movement needed the engagement of young people. Back then, we were told again and again that young people were not a priority because they couldn’t or wouldn’t vote, and couldn’t be organized. How times have changed. With the failure of our leaders to act and an explosion of youth activism and visibility within the movement, our outlying belief in the power of youth is now common knowledge—and to many, our best source of hope.

We believe that ACE has a critical role to play in growing the power of the movement by amplifying the voices and values of young people. When young people call for climate justice, they do so with the moral authority of a generation that will have to live with the choices our leaders make today. Youth voices are not the only ones needed in the global climate movement, but without the power of youth, we simply cannot win.....One thing is clear: we have no time to lose. Leah Qusba, ACE Executive Director
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Thank you Asmaa Hanafi for sharing your journey together with the Green Society in Alexandria on raising environmental and sustainability awareness to grassroots and in using art to empower youth to understand the impacts of climate crisis and find solutions collectively to restore our earth and achieve the SDGs.

Check out this blog post to learn more about this initiative!

The Wisdom of a Newborn (Earth) Day...

The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. Thomas Aquinas

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. Maimonides

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Oliver W. Holmes

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind! Mehmet Murat ildan

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. James Allen

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. Paracelsus

Before you speak, learn; before you get sick, prepare the cure. Before you are judged, examine yourself. Ben Sira

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Will Durant

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. Lao-Tzu

Look to the old, they are worthy of old age; they have seen their days and proven themselves. With the help of the Great Spirit, they have attained a ripe old age. At this age the old can predict or give knowledge or wisdom, whatever it is, it is so. Black Elk, Oglala Lakota

If you wish....you can be wise; if you apply yourself, you can be shrewd. If you are willing to listen, you can learn; if you pay attention, you can be instructed. Stand in the company of the elders; stay close to whoever is wise. Be eager to hear every discourse; let no insightful saying escape you. If you see the intelligent, seek them out; let your feet wear away their doorsteps! Ben Sira

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

A lesson from the Pollinators...

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance. Sun Yat-sen

The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes. Chinese Proverb

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind! Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart. Lao Tzu

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. Jim Britt

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized. Dalai Lama

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. Marianne Williamson

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius
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Happy Earth Day Everyone!

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. David Attenborough

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. Natalie Angier

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. L. Wolfe Gilbert

Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. Vincent Van Gogh

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. Amit Ray

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. Charles Dickens

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs

Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out. Edgar Guest

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. Saint John Paul II

Humankind did not weave the web of life. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves. Chief Seattle

Learn from Yesterday, live for Today, hope for Tomorrow. Albert Einstein

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people. Paulo Freire

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. Mahatma Gandhi

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones; the ones at home. Mother Teresa

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. Charles Dickens

Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures. Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day Founder
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