What can YOU do???
Alex Lin is not the only person who is fighting for the environment. People like Erica Fernandez and Clay McMullen are teens who fight for the environment though it may be in different.
Erica Fernandez is a teen activist. At age 16, she stopped a company on Oxnard, California from putting gas pipelines through a neighborhood. She won the Dower Youth Award for Young Activists in 2007 as well. Erica's focus is on communities and minorities. She is so powerful, she speaks at conferences around the globe. She was inspired by Cesar Chavez. |
Clay McMullen is also a teen activist. He is worried about the environment so much that he started a crusade to make a difference. He has one nearly 50 grants from all different organizations that totals nearly $80,000.
He is fighting for endangered species such as ospreys. He has built nesting grounds for the birds, who live in Ohio's rapidly disappearing wetlands. The osprey relies on the wetlands, 90% of which have disappeared in the last 100 years. |