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Youth Engagement and Leadership Opportunities for 2019
Over the past year, The Ocean Project has been significantly expanding our youth initiative to demonstrate worldwide youth leadership for ocean conservation with a special focus on World Oceans Day each year. This includes proactively engaging and collaborating with the most effective youth groups, aquariums, zoos, and other strategic partners. Together, we are developing a broad, […]
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Supporting Youth Engagement and Leadership Worldwide
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou Young people are creative and they are not only the leaders of tomorrow, but also today! We are equipping young people with the knowledge, skills, and networks to grow the movement for a healthy ocean, a stable climate, and […]
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Sea Youth Rise Up 2018
At a time where the world is faced with herculean challenges, it is imperative that we engage the passion, idealism, and energy found within the youth of today. Among the many World Oceans Day 2018 initiatives to mobilize this valuable source of new energy is the Sea Youth Rise Up Campaign – first launched for World […]
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Youth for the Ocean Launches!
This month we officially launch the Youth for the Ocean initiative to collaboratively accelerate youth engagement and develop youth leaders for a healthy ocean. We’re excited to partner with you! Our youth initiative will complement and enhance related efforts at The Ocean Project to advance ocean conservation in partnership with zoos, aquariums, museums (ZAMs), youth, and many others worldwide. […]
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Meet Our New Director of Youth Initiatives, Rachael Coccia!
The Ocean Project to happy to announce the hiring of our newest team member, Rachael Coccia. As the Director of Youth Initiatives, Rachael will coordinate the Youth Advisory Council for World Oceans Day and introduce year-round opportunities for youth engagement. This includes collaborating with key partners to develop the Youth for the Ocean (Y4O) initiative. […]
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Youth Testimonials
The Ocean Project supports youth leadership for a stable climate, healthy ocean and a just and sustainable society. We empower youth engagement in public policy through online advocacy training programs, collaborative action campaigns, as well as through in-person opportunities to directly engage decision makers nationally and around the world. Many young people (e.g., World Ocean […]
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Youth Taking the Lead for Conservation Action
In the summer of 2016, Phillipe Cousteau, grandson of legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau, recognized youth as “the hope for our oceans.” Across the globe, there is an ever-growing group of young and passionate leaders with confident “can-do” attitudes ready to make positive changes for our planet. Today more than ever, these youth are involved in […]
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Youth Making Waves for Ocean Conservation
2016 brought a variety of challenges and triumphs for our oceans. While the world faced the hottest year on record and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffered from its largest coral bleaching event, we were still able to celebrate the establishment of the largest marine protected areas on earth in Hawaii and Antarctica, and cities and […]
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ISG+ Final Report: Seattle Youth Climate Action Network is Looking Back and Planning Ahead!
This guest post by Eli Weiss of Woodland Park Zoo is the last in a 3-part series on their Innovative Solutions Grants+ project, exploring how teens in the Seattle area can empower each other and their peers for action on climate change. When the idea of Seattle Youth Climate Action Network was hatched in the fall […]
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ISG+ Final Report: Seattle Youth CAN works to combat climate change
This guest post by Eli Weiss of Woodland Park Zoo is the third in a 3-part series on their Innovative Solutions Grants+ project, exploring how teens in the Seattle area can empower each other and their peers for action on climate change. What we have to celebrate As we wrap up our first year with […]
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