Lake Tahoe Youth Summit

Lake Tahoe, USA

Lake Tahoe and our global climate
needs our help

Fri 29 July

Location: North Tahoe Event Center

Times: 9am – 1pm PST

Format: In-Person

Cost: FREE

Youth from around Lake Tahoe (Nevada & California) are invited to join this free one-day Summit to explore the importance of a healthy Lake Tahoe in a climate-positive future, and develop a Blue Climate Action Plan to help Lake Tahoe.

Summit Hosts

Kids Speak for Parks

Robbie Bond

Robbie Bond started Kids Speak for Parks in 2017, at just 9 years old. Robbie has always been an advocate for the environment. His goal is to educate kids and their families about the importance of National Parks and monuments and inspire them to get involved in protecting these places. Robbie has been involved with Captain Planet Foundation since 2018.

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Post-Event Survey

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Summit

Before attending this event, my experience implementing campaigns for change includes:

(check all that apply

I have attended a Planeteer Alliance training

I have attended an Ocean Heroes or Tide Turners training

I have attended a training with another advocacy organization

This is my first step in learning how to develop and implement campaigns for change

I have participated on a team that was running a campaign for change

I have developed my own campaign for change but I didn’t make much progress

I have developed a campaign for change that is still in progress

I have developed my own campaign for change that was successful

I have developed several campaigns for change

Having participated in this Blue Climate Action Summit,

I feel like I have a community of people I can work with on Blue Climate Action projects

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I feel confident about developing and/ or contributing to a Blue Climate Action plan to address a problem affecting water in my community

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The Blue Climate challenge I am going to focus on over the next 6-12 months is…

My next step in developing and implementing my Blue Climate Action Plan is to…

Schedule

ALL TIMES ARE IN PST (UTC-7)

9:00: Check in

9:15: The significance and stewardship of Lake Tahoe by the Washoe Tribe. A message from Darryl Cruz, Washoe Tribe Historic Preservation Office.

9:30: Introduction/Ice Breakers

10:00: Keep Tahoe Blue with speaker Kelci Brown

10:30: Beach Cleanup

11:30: Lunch/Prizes

12:00: Action Plan/ Wrap Up

About Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America, is about 1,644 feet deep. The lake spans the California & Nevada boundaries in the United States, and is one of the deepest lakes in the world.

Lake Tahoe, like other large freshwater lakes, is a major carbon sink (or resource that stores carbon), but only if the ecosystem is healthy & balanced. A healthy Lake Tahoe contributes to a blue climate positive future.

Sponsors

About Planeteer Alliance Blue Climate Action Summit Series

Oceans and freshwater lakes play a crucial role in slowing and reversing the effects of climate change. As part of our work in accelerating known climate solutions, the Planeteer Alliance is excited to be supporting the Blue Climate Action Summit Series to support Planeteers around the world in taking Blue Climate Action — work to protect and restore our oceans and lakes to help their communities and our planet.

The Blue Climate Action Summit Series is being built in collaboration with the NALYS organizers based on the principles they have identified for authentically engaging young people in communities around the world:

Uplifting young people’s voices and ideas
Empowering young people to connect with, protect, preserve and restore their water systems.
The importance of story and culture in creating connections
The importance of indigenous wisdom in restoring our waterways
The interconnectedness of problems facing our planet and the intersectional approach needed to solve them.

Planeteer Alliance is a program of the Captain Planet Foundation, a US-based NGO with the mission of engaging and empowering young people to be problem solvers for the planet.