If you have been following the youth environmental movement in the past few years, it would be difficult to have missed the name Alec Loorz. Alec has been an environmental activist since seeing the film "An Inconvenient Truth" two years ago. At the time, Alec wanted to become one of the 1000 trained presenters of Al Gore's global warming presentation, but was denied because of his age - which at the time was 12.

Unwilling to give up on his desire to educate the world about global warming, Alec sought out the nearest Inconvenient truth presenter, and learned his own version of the presentation. About a year later he finally met Al Gore and became the youngest official presenter in October of 2008.

Now 14, Alec has given 75 presentations to over 10,000 people, and has been the keynote speaker at events such as the City of Los Angeles' Environmental Youth Conference.

He has also founded the organization Kids vs. Global Warming, which mobilized youth to start fighting global warming, as well as the SLAP (Sea Level Awareness Project) which on June 29th will install poles along the coast of his hometown of Ventura, California which measure sea levels in order to show the community the changes caused by global warming.