Fired Up Youth Action TV

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The Project:
Fired Up Youth Action TV, Washington, D.C., produces news segments covering youth issues ranging from education, to politics, to jobs and the economy, to entertainment and culture. It does this through the lens of the most important challenges facing young people: the impact of global warming and the construction of a cleaner, more just economy and society. With contributors from around the country and traditional and new media distribution, Fired Up Youth Action TV reaches a broad audience of youth with stories they relate to, thus helping build the climate movement.

The Winner:
Richard Graves is a climate activist, social entrepreneur, and online journalist. He founded Fired Up Media to help youth leaders from around the world tell their stories in the fight against global warming and for a more just and sustainable world. He thinks that young people can use new media to create the revolutionary change necessary to solve global warming and has told people that at the World Bank, UN, CNN, and other stuffy institutions.

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