You can request the 2010 application via web-based form. The 2010 application is due on May 15, 2010. Each of the six Brower Youth Award recipients for 2010 will receive a $3000 cash prize and an all-expense paid trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend the Awards ceremony on October 19, 2010. The recipients will also participate in a week of speaking engagements, trainings, and environmental conferences leading up to the ceremony.
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Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards to honor
founder and legendary activist David R. Brower. The Brower Youth Awards recognizes six young people in North America annually for their
outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental
and environmental justice advocacy. The winners of the award receive a $3,000
cash prize, a trip to California for the award ceremony and wilderness
camping trip, and ongoing access to resources and opportunities to
further their work at Earth Island Institute. Young activist leaders ages 13-22 living in North America are eligible to apply.
Criteria for the Brower Youth Awards
Outstanding Youth Leadership and Project Impact
The Brower Youth Awards recognize people ages 13 to 22 living in North America who have shown outstanding leadership on
a project or campaign with positive environmental and social impact.
“Outstanding leadership” means that you played a major leadership
role in creating, organizing and implementing your project or campaign. We are
looking for the person with the vision, motivation, and leadership
skills that made the project or campaign work.
We gauge impact by how your efforts benefited the environment and
community in terms of measurable results (e.g. acres of wildlife
habitat protected or restored, number of people engaged in social
issues because of the project, numbers of children no longer exposed to
toxins, etc.), as well as movement-building and raising awareness.
Samples of projects and campaigns eligible for the award could include, but are not limited to:
:: Conservation
CONSERVATION is
work to eliminate or decrease our use of natural resources and our
negative impacts on ecosystems and communities. For example:
A campaign that plays a substantial role in organizing a local community to pass a public transportation initiative
A project that significantly reduces energy use on a school campus by requiring passive solar design and the use of efficient appliances in all school facilities.
"Conserve the golden eggs carefully. Preserve the goose or there will be no more golden eggs. If you've already damaged the goose, get going on Restoration."
~ David R. Brower
:: Preservation
PRESERVATION is work to protect ecosystems, species, indigenous cultures and other
irreplaceable elements of the world's natural heritage. For example:
A project that secures protected nesting area for an endangered songbird
A campaign that plays a substantial role in blocking development of Native
sacred sites via ongoing peaceful civil disobedience (demonstrations,
street theater, marches)
:: Restoration
RESTORATION is work to re-establish the healthy functioning of ecosystems; parts of
ecosystems; and human communities that manage ecosystems. For example:
A project that reclaims an abandoned urban lot, creates an organic garden.
A campaign that works to eliminate carbon emissions and mitigates the impacts of global warming.
