Interior Alaska Youth for Environmental Action

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Interior Alaska Youth for Environmental Action Interior youth educating, inspiring, and taking action in our communities! This includes drafting and introducing a bill to the state legislature.

Interior Alaska Youth for Environmental Action was originally the page for the local Fairbanks AYEA chapter, FAYEA. FAYEA ceased to exist in fall of 2013; however, there are still dedicated AYEA members in the Interior working to promote AYEA’s annual campaign. This year’s statewide AYEA campaign focus is to “engage and empower Alaskans to take action on climate change.” Statewide AYEA youth (including those in the Interior) will be taking action on this goal through two approaches:
1) Implementing more energy curriculum (namely, the EnergySmart curriculum) in K-12 schools to educate youth about energy
2) Moving state legislators to support and pass climate change legislation. Stay tuned to our page for more campaign updates! If you are at all interested in learning more about AYEA or helping out with our local campaign, please don’t hesitate to contact us! (During FAYEA’s existence, the chapter was involved in a vast array of activities. Its projects included:
1) AYEA's 2010-11 Statewide Wild Alaska Salmon Campaign, in which FAYEA raised awareness towards the threats of large-scale mining and genetically-modified salmon. FAYEA collected a petition of 215 local signatures which was delivered to legislators in Juneau and Washington DC.
2) Extensive work promoting local foods for the 2011-13 Statewide AYEA Local Foods Campaign. FAYEA planted a garden and gave away the produce for two summers to educate the community about self-sufficiency. It also collaborated with organizations such as the John Trigg Esther Library and spearheaded a statewide AYEA effort to publish a local foods cookbook.
3) Volunteering for multiple organizations, including Friends of Creamer's Field, Interior Alaska Green Star, and the Literacy Council of Alaska
4) Trash cleanups along a mile of Farmer’s Loop as part of the Adopt-a-Highway Program
5) Showing an environmental documentaries at the Noel Wien Library)

Major Thanks To: The Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Amanda Huff, Erin Shew, Danielle Flaherty, statewide AYEA staff, and you, for your tremendous support!

Apply by July 17th to the Youth Organizing Summit! ayea.org/yosummit
07/10/2017

Apply by July 17th to the Youth Organizing Summit! ayea.org/yosummit

12/21/2016

What is the Civics & Conservation Summit? Each spring, AYEA youth delegates travel to our state capital in Juneau, Alaska and gain skills in communication, advocacy, and the democratic process. Teens meet with their legislators and advocate on the issues they care about. When they return to their ho...

Elvie Underwood of Fairbanks published this awesome piece on climate and fiscal crisis today!"Increased oil subsidies, a...
05/10/2016

Elvie Underwood of Fairbanks published this awesome piece on climate and fiscal crisis today!
"Increased oil subsidies, at the expense of education programs, public safety and environmental protection, will at best provide short-term relief. We must instead focus on protecting our natural resources and developing new revenue, such as renewable energy, that can provide for our economy without jeopardizing the environment. A smart plan for our future can bring us away from this point of no return for both our climate and our budget."

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Hey everybody! Sorry for the late notice, but I hope you will all be able to make it to the premiere of the documentary ...
05/12/2015

Hey everybody! Sorry for the late notice, but I hope you will all be able to make it to the premiere of the documentary "Chuitna: More than Salmon on the Line"! The screening is being held tonight at 5:30 at the Blue Loon. Admission is free and food will be provided. (That's always a plus!) Hope to see y'all there!

http://savethechuitna.org/trailer/

Alaska is currently poised as a very decisive influence towards climate change action. It's time for us Alaskans to take...
04/24/2015

Alaska is currently poised as a very decisive influence towards climate change action. It's time for us Alaskans to take advantage of this!
http://www.adn.com/article/20150423/alaska-stands-benefit-us-takes-reins-arctic-council

The U.S. will take over chairmanship of the Arctic Council on Friday, a change that will put Alaska at center stage for the council's focus on such things as climate change and Arctic infrastructure.

Twenty-one AYEA teens (including four from the Interior!) met with Governor Walker last Tuesday to advocate for a taskfo...
03/15/2015

Twenty-one AYEA teens (including four from the Interior!) met with Governor Walker last Tuesday to advocate for a taskforce on climate change! The meeting was focused, dynamic, and productive, and we presented the Governor with over 1,000 petitions! Better yet, the AFN decided to back our taskforce proposal! Our work is still not over, but we have made enormous progress!

Check out this video, which illustrates the amounts of Arctic sea ice from 1987-2014...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F...
02/19/2015

Check out this video, which illustrates the amounts of Arctic sea ice from 1987-2014...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDRnH48LvhQ

Decades ago, the majority of the Arctic's winter ice pack was made up of thick, perennial ice. Today, very old ice is extremely rare. This animation tracks t...

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