Teen Action?

Student: Agypt

School: Bayview

INSPIRATION: What ideas, projects or movements have you seen that make you hopeful about the future of our cities?

VISION: In what ways should we design our cities differently in order to have a sustainable future?

Cities consist of lots of energy use, a small change in everyday house hold products such as buying energy star approved products.

ACTION: What can your generation do now to bring us closer to this future?

In this generation, technology is a big part of marketing. I think advertising online instead of making print ads can help reduce paper use. Another option inspired by eco friendly supermarkets is takeout options. Since many students are going out for lunch , restaurants may offer more eco friendly services such as take out containers can charge an additional fee to serve their foods in reusable containers and place discounts to encourage customers to bring back the containers when ordering takeout again.

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Preserving our world

Student: Briana

School: St. Robert

INSPIRATION: What ideas, projects or movements have you seen that make you hopeful about the future of our cities?

VISION: In what ways should we design our cities differently in order to have a sustainable future?

We should design our cities differently by considering the needs of the people and the earth. We should look into today’s biggest issues such as climate change. Through this critical thinking, we can come up with steps to work towards our goals. For example, creating sculptures from recycled material.

ACTION: What can your generation do now to bring us closer to this future?

Spread awareness
Conserve our earth’s natural resources
Identify issues and create a plan to solve it
Help each other
Educate yourself by attending conferences such as this one

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My Healthy Community

Student: Aswitha

School: Stouffville District

INSPIRATION: What ideas, projects or movements have you seen that make you hopeful about the future of our cities?

VISION: In what ways should we design our cities differently in order to have a sustainable future?

Putting more trash and recycling bins around so that it doesn’t make people want to litter. Not giving out plastic forks and spoons in schools. Using less paper for work.

ACTION: What can your generation do now to bring us closer to this future?

Have the right mindset
Go digital instead of paper
Join certain groups and clubs
Using reusable materials
Let the older generations know how important it is to save our environment.

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The Green Steps

Student: Mathushan

School: Stouffville District

INSPIRATION: What ideas, projects or movements have you seen that make you hopeful about the future of our cities?

VISION: In what ways should we design our cities differently in order to have a sustainable future?

Instead of building outwards we can build up to prevent deforestation. Electric forms of public transportation will reduce air pollution and public transportation being more accessible can also reduce air pollution. Ban all single use plastics and switch to more energy efficient materials and objects.

ACTION: What can your generation do now to bring us closer to this future?

We can promote these ideas on social media to get more people’s attention.
We can reduce single use plastics
Use LED lights because they use less power
Turn things off when we’re not using them (lights, tv)
Carpool more often and promote the idea of all electric public transportation

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Create a Better Future

Student: Anujan

School: Stouffville District

INSPIRATION: What ideas, projects or movements have you seen that make you hopeful about the future of our cities?

VISION: In what ways should we design our cities differently in order to have a sustainable future?

Some things that we can do is going plastic free in our cities. This would help with climate change and reduce pollution if other cities do it as well. They should also consider small-scale infrastructure such as cycle lanes and bike sharing. They can also create systems that recover carbon dioxide and use it for other applications, or create systems that can cool or heat multiple buildings at once.

ACTION: What can your generation do now to bring us closer to this future?

Being more active in social media by informing about big issues in society.
We can stop using plastics and change your lifestyle because climate change is a growing problem.
Be more active in the community to inform and make changes within the community.
We can talk to higher authorities to and inform them about our ideas and how it allows us to have a more sustainable future.
Innovating the city to make it more eco friendly.

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