Gabriel Holden
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Gabriel's actions
Health and Education
Become a certified Climate Ambassador!
The Climate Museum in NYC is working with local teens to form a Climate Volunteer Coalition! The first step is to educate yourself on the main talking points around climate change. Next, share your knowledge! To help you do this, the Climate Museum has produced a pocket-sized "Climate Ambassador" card. Read the instructions, print the card, cut/fold, and start talking to the people! If you don't have a printer--make your own! https://climatemuseum.org/ambassador **With parent permission** You can also sign up on the Climate Museum website for more info. You can even post a reflection that the Museum will publish on their website for all to see!
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Climate Change and Wildfires: How is climate change affecting you? Our hometown? And what can we do now?
First, the article about the CA wildfires and climate change. Climate Change In Your Hometown The featured article discusses the connection between climate change and California wildfires. Another Times article, from 2018, lets you track how the number of days when temperatures hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or higher changes in your hometown over your lifetime. As you look at the graph created based on your hometown and the year you were born, what do you notice? (If you want, try entering the birth year of your parents or grandparents as well.) Then, scroll to see the climate predictions for your hometown when you are 80 years old. Continue to scroll to learn more about these predictions, and then see how your hometown compares to other parts of the country and the world using the interactive globe.
Health and Education
Sir David Attenborough: The Voice of Planet Earth Speaks on Climate Change
After you watch the video with your advisory, answer the reflection question below. For additional points, respond to a teammate's post!
Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks
For the love of nature
Post a photo of something from nature that you love and want to protect.
Action Track: Social Justice
Songwriting
I used my creativity and self expression to write a song about the current times. OR I researched and shared a song about the current times.
Action Track: Justice for the Whole Community
Voting Rights
After you listen to the StoryCorp episode about voting rights, reflect on what it means to vote. Check in with the adults in your life-are they planning on voting? Why or why not?
Action Track: Justice for the Whole Community
Sustainable BUGS
The goal of this action to create a more sustainable school experience for our students and staff :)
Action Track: Justice for the Whole Community
Native Land and Practices Acknowledgement
Native Land Acknowledgement means to learn about, talk about, and show respect for the Native inhabitants of an area of land. We do this for many reasons: to correct history, protect and preserve the culture and identity of native peoples, acknowledge the role of European colonization in the loss of native lives and lands. For this activity, read about the Lenape. The tribe indigenous to Brooklyn, Queens , and Manhattan. Who are they, what was NYC like before colonization? How can we honor the Lenape today? (links below)
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Eliminating food waste during Thanksgiving (or other big meals!)
Watch the video and respond to the reflection questions below :).
Action Track: Healing & Renewal
Climate Change Action
Watch the film and respond to the reflection question :)
Industry
Time's Kid of the Year: Water Quality Tester Engineer
Gitanjali Rao is the first “Time’s Kid of the Year”. She is being recognized for inventing a device that detects lead in drinking water.
Land Sinks
Learning to Fly
Our surroundings, the environment--natural and manmade---have a huge impact on our life story. Watch the video together and then share a memory of your home, your neighborhood, or another special place that has helped you become who you are today.
Electricity
Carbon Footprint Calculator
Use the link below to calculate your own Carbon Footprint.
Action Track: Healing & Renewal
BLM/BHM
The Black Lives Matter Movement drafted 13 Guiding Principles. These principles were created in order to heal and sustain our communities. Read through the Guiding Principles. Choose at least one to reflect upon.
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
We are all connected: Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, she was not the first African woman to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize but racism, colonialism, and sexism have long played into this award. Read about Maathai, a biologist and activist, and reflect on what Americans can learn about her work and apply to our own hemisphere.
Health and Education
Why have the accomplishments of African Civilizations been obscured?
Harvard professor and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. is interviewed by Audie Cornish about his series Africa’s Great Civilizations.
Health and Education
Jaysa Miller and Youth Voices for the Planet
Climate Change and pollution disproportionately affect Black Americans and communities of color. Young people like Jaysa Miller have had enough. Miller is working to unveil and hold developers, policymakers, and factory owners accountable for the risk they put communities in. Learn about her work by watching the video below!
Participant Feed
Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.
To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?
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REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Social Justice SongwritingWhat are the lyrics?
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Gabriel Holden 6/16/2021 6:03 AMI love the eco challenge and getting free points -
REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Healing & Renewal BLM/BHMHow can this guiding principle show up in our school community on a regular basis?
Gabriel Holden 2/24/2021 5:55 AMThe guiding principle I picked is diversity. This guiding principle already shows up on a regular basis at BUGS. For example black history month and other celebrations for black lives. At BUGS a way this could show up more on a regular basis is if we did more activites to learn more about BLM and black people even though we already celebrate black history month . -
REFLECTION QUESTIONHealth and Education Why have the accomplishments of African Civilizations been obscured?Why have the accomplishments of African Civilizations been obscured? How can we sustain these accomplishments and their impact?
Gabriel Holden 2/03/2021 6:04 AMI think that the accomplishments of African civilisations have been kept hidden because in movies like Tarzan they don't show a great image of Africa and maybe they don't want people to think something different of Africa. So they think that if people see their accomplishments then people will think different from how Africa is shown in movies. I think we can help spread this information by telling other people and talking about it on social media in posts or in any other way you can think of-
Gabriel Holden 2/03/2021 6:05 AMidk
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REFLECTION QUESTIONElectricity Carbon Footprint CalculatorWhat can you do to either lower your carbon footprint OR "offset your carbon footprint. When you "offset" you basically pay it forward---you do something kind for the environment or another person to balance out your carbon use if you can't reduce it.
Gabriel Holden 1/06/2021 6:03 AMI could eat less meat or travel more efficiently. There is a lot you can do to help lower your carbon footprint. Something you could do to offset it would maybe be drive less or add solar panels to the top of your house there is a lot you can do those are just a few examples. -
REFLECTION QUESTIONIndustry Time's Kid of the Year: Water Quality Tester EngineerIf you suddenly had the ability to invent a device that helps humanity, what would it do? (draw a pic and upload it you can!)
Gabriel Holden 12/09/2020 6:04 AMIf I suddenly had to invent a device that helps humanity it would be either a machine to stop diesese or something to stop climate change like maybe I would find or like create another source to power lots of things to replace fossil fuels that is sustainable. I would do that or create a clone gun to stop overpopulation and overall help people in need by giving them what they need by cloning things they need more of -
REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Healing & Renewal Climate Change ActionWhat's one thing you can do in your daily life to slow down and appreciate our world--the people and the planet? How can you concentrate on doing more "good" instead of competing for "the best"? How has competing to be the best contributed to human impact on the environment?
Gabriel Holden 12/02/2020 5:57 AMOne thing I can do in my daily life to appreciate the earth is to go outside more or befriend animals or even just go outside and take pictures of things. I can concentrate on doing more good by knowing that every time I do good to the planet i'm helping the planet just a little bit. Competing to be the best has effected the world in bad ways and has made the environment go from something amazing to something withering and awful. Like the sea the sea is beautiful but now it can be filled with trash. Like in some places if you go in the water and put your head under you will see more trash than fish which is really sad to me.-
Gabriel Holden 12/02/2020 6:00 AMAlso I can eat less meat or none at all or help the environment by picking up trash and helping animals.
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Gabriel Holden 10/28/2020 6:05 AMI chose the ones I did because I thought they were important also I had too but it as fun-
Gabriel Holden 10/28/2020 6:06 AMwas
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REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Justice for the Whole Community Voting RightsWhat does it mean to be able to vote? Should the voting age be lowered to 16?
Gabriel Holden 10/28/2020 6:04 AMTo vote it means that you have power and freedom to make decisions by yourself and to have a little bit of power of what happens to the country you are living in. I think the voting age should be 16 because at age 16 I think you are old enough to make your own decisions this big but I don't think it should be any more lowered than that because at age 14 or 15 you are probably not old enough to make a decision that big. -
Gabriel Holden 10/28/2020 5:50 AMI chose the actions I did because I want people to know why I love the parks and nature a lot