Environmental Education A youth-focused website from the State of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection.
Green Teens Club We are just a group of kids who think that we can do what we were told was impossible - change the world. We’re just your ordinary group of high school kids who believe that living a greener life now means a better life for our future.
Water Conservation A global website that's all about saving water, featuring helpful suggestions on what you can do every day. Included is the African Water Project, plus more helpful links.
- Infographic: http://www.portapotty.net/water-conservation/
Recycle Works This website from the County of San Mateo is all about recycling, and how you can participate.
Endangered Animal Library A website from the African American Environmentalist Association that lists animals that are at risk of extinction. The also site offers ways you can get involved to help.
Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) is a local youth driven non-profit organization dedicated to the health of our urban environment, our planet & the well-being of its people. By providing young people with meaningful employment, in projects that benefit our communities, we support our environment socially as well as ecologically.
Climate Change Resources Use the resources below to get smart on climate change and what you can do to make a difference.
Global Warming Central: This guide will help you discover all about global warming, what causes it and what you can do at home or at school to help change it. Thanks for the referral, Bethany! EPA Climate Change Kids Site: Games, links, climate animation, tools for teachers, and more resources on climate change. EPA ENERGY STAR Kids Site: Why your planet needs you and how you can make big changes to help. EPA ENERGY STAR Kids Room: You Can Make Big Changes: Choose "Eureka! We’ve Found It! See Where You Can Make a Difference in Our World" to learn what you can do in your bedroom to save energy and the planet. EPA: At School – What You Can Do: Planning resources and a directory about reducing greenhouse gas emissions for students, educators, and administrators. Behind Every Illusion: A novel by Christina Harner about the "extraordinary ways the earth has evolved in a desperate attempt to save itself from the destruction caused by humankind." Pew Center: Global Warming - Kids Page: A basic understanding of global warming, how it occurs, and how you can help stop the process, in a question and answer format. ClimateChangeEducation.org: GlobalWarmingKids.net: A kid’s portal with links on global warming, climate change, and solutions. Year of Science: Take AIM at Climate Change Video: Welcome to the celebration of weather and climate!
Global Warming Central: This guide will help you discover all about global warming, what causes it and what you can do at home or at school to help change it. Thanks for the referral, Bethany!
EPA Climate Change Kids Site: Games, links, climate animation, tools for teachers, and more resources on climate change.
EPA ENERGY STAR Kids Site: Why your planet needs you and how you can make big changes to help.
EPA ENERGY STAR Kids Room: You Can Make Big Changes: Choose "Eureka! We’ve Found It! See Where You Can Make a Difference in Our World" to learn what you can do in your bedroom to save energy and the planet.
EPA: At School – What You Can Do: Planning resources and a directory about reducing greenhouse gas emissions for students, educators, and administrators.
Behind Every Illusion: A novel by Christina Harner about the "extraordinary ways the earth has evolved in a desperate attempt to save itself from the destruction caused by humankind."
Pew Center: Global Warming - Kids Page: A basic understanding of global warming, how it occurs, and how you can help stop the process, in a question and answer format.
ClimateChangeEducation.org: GlobalWarmingKids.net: A kid’s portal with links on global warming, climate change, and solutions.
Year of Science: Take AIM at Climate Change Video: Welcome to the celebration of weather and climate!
Air Pollution Resources
EPA Environmental Kids Club: Causes of air pollution and what you can do to keep the air clean. EcoHealth: There’s Something in the Air: Information on air pollution, smog and air quality. EcoHealth: Ozone’s Split Personality: The positive and negative aspects of ozone. Kids 4 Clean Air: Clean Air Kids: An overview of air quality, smog, today’s pollution issues, gases, and smoking. Kids 4 Clean Air: Clean Air Kids Games and Puzzles: Information sheets, games, and puzzles about clean air.
EPA Environmental Kids Club: Causes of air pollution and what you can do to keep the air clean.
EcoHealth: There’s Something in the Air: Information on air pollution, smog and air quality.
EcoHealth: Ozone’s Split Personality: The positive and negative aspects of ozone.
Kids 4 Clean Air: Clean Air Kids: An overview of air quality, smog, today’s pollution issues, gases, and smoking.
Kids 4 Clean Air: Clean Air Kids Games and Puzzles: Information sheets, games, and puzzles about clean air.
Extreme Weather Events
EcoHealth: Storms: Weather Gone Wild: Changing climate patterns and how they create weather events like thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes. EcoHealth: Floods: Water Gone Wild: Changing climate patterns and specific information about floods.
EcoHealth: Storms: Weather Gone Wild: Changing climate patterns and how they create weather events like thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
EcoHealth: Floods: Water Gone Wild: Changing climate patterns and specific information about floods.
Climate and Infectious Disease
EcoHealth: Hitching a Ride to Find the Host with the Most: The effects of vectors, how global warming affects vectors, and the deadly illnesses they spread.
Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
EcoKids: Planet Protectors: Carbon Dioxide is Taking Over the World!: An interactive game about carbon dioxide and climate change.
Climate Change and Hunger
EcoHealth: Agriculture: Growing Problems: How climate change affects agriculture and hunger.
Climate Change and Heat Waves
EcoHealth: Things are Heating Up!: How climate change affects rising temperatures, summer heat waves, and health.
Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
EcoHealth: Sea Change: Rising Ocean Levels: How global warming contributes to rising sea and ocean levels.
Hey, I’m Adam
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“We’ve created a place on the internet for you to ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask. So take a look around, then let us know what you think about it. You might make a really good point about something, then see what others think about it as well. It’s getting involved, and sharing ideas about all kinds of subjects.”
Hi I'm Adam. I joined this web site because I really appreciate what In Search of Me Cafe is trying to do. When I was faced with tough choices I never really had a lot of people to talk to. Often I was embarrassed asking for advice on awkward stuff from my friends and family. I think if there had been an In Search of Me Cafe when I was making tough decisions it would have really helped me.
Any way enough about why I like this site so much. I have always liked to party and I love chillin’ with my friends. Obviously partying can lead to some tough life choices; I had my first alcoholic drink when I was 13. That may seem pretty young but I grew up in Europe where the legal age was 16. Yes I know... that’s still underage.
It’s true, I was underage. It’s easy to drink when your friends drink. Needless to say, from the first drink till now, I have experienced a lot. Partying was probably the best tool in learning about me which may seem strange but I really learned a lot about how I treat my friends and relationships, how I trust …you name it. Good times and bad I have gained valuable life lessons. If you ever need to talk about stuff or you have a question you’re burning to ask or if you just wanna share stories. Go ahead and holler. I won’t judge and it’s pretty hard to faze me. I’ll give you my honest opinion and you never know, you may have an experience that’ll teach me some things too.
Hey, I’m Taran
“Every teen has to face the same type of problems and try to figure out who they are. This is a place where you can do that.”
Hey, I’m Maddie
“Up until this year I was picked on a lot and it really brings down your self esteem. Kids don't think about how they're really affecting other people with their words and eventually the other kids' self esteem goes down and down and they start to believe what the bullies are saying. After a while you just start to give up and think, ‘Oh, what's the point. I suck anyway’ and your grades and everything else goes down.”
Hey, I’m Chelsi.
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Each morning I see in my mind what I’m working hard to obtain. I know I can achieve anything I set my mind on by putting in the time & effort needed. I believe one can learn from every experience. I like to ‘take the best and leave the rest’!“
As a rule I don’t like talking about myself. However, I want you to know a little about me, the “teen” likely not much different than you and thinking a lot of the same things and having similar questions etc.
I try to treat everyone with respect and kindness, just as I would hope to be treated! Hopefully I can help answer questions you may have or concerns you don’t want to discuss with an adult… you know teen-to-teen!
Here’s a bit of what I like to do…. I love hanging with my friends at the movies or the mall, and staying in with my family. I love music, sometimes when I’m upset or “heartbroken” I go in my room and just listen to music. It just lets me cool off and just not have to think.
Although I’m only 13 on paper, I’m told I’m much wiser than my years. If there is a problem, I am the first person anyone calls. I may be nice but, if someone hurts anyone I know (whether I like ya or not) they are in trouble… haha. They call me “the haha queen” because I can make any situation funny.
I hope after hearing this little bit “about me” you want to ask me your questions, and if you just want to chat, I’d love to. I like meeting new people.
-Chelsi♥ Archambeau
“And it's now, now or never when we're chasing our dreams.” -Mercy Mercedes
“I'd like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly.” -Owl City
“Do you know what's worth fighting for? When it's not worth dying for?” –Green Day
What my friends have to say About me - Chelsi♥ ……
“I like talking to you because you can always make me feel good about myself and make me happy no matter what. I like you as a person because you really are a great friend and I thank you for being there for me, and you’re just fun to be with.” -Jessie
“It’s hard.. To put into words.. The uncanny ability you have to put a smile on my face and that’s just online, from reading the nearly poetic replies. Where as over the phones it’s near impossible to explain the warmth that washes over me when I hear your voice. For some reason when I heard you for the first time. Chelsi you inspired my first poem I wrote … -Sean
Hey, I’m Brittany
“When people go to parties just to hang out, other people come and bring drinks or cigarettes, and try to get you to do it. They keep trying and trying to get you to drink or smoke, and you might be tempted do it because you want to be known as a cool person.”
Hey, I’m Trent
“I have cousins my same age and younger who are Haitian and Filipino, which allows me to connect with other cultures. Even with different styles and different issues, these other teenagers still have some of the same dramas we have here in America, such as peer pressure.” Hey, I’m Trent
Hey, I’m Forrest
“You can post video blogs on this site -- voice your opinions about topics here as well as responses to what others are saying in their blogs. So it kinda builds upon itself.”
Hey, I’m Connor
Hi, I’m Connor Cottle. I’m 17 and a junior at Fernandina Beach High School in northeast Florida. As an only child, my friends are really important to me, so I’m either hanging out with them or texting them when we’re apart.
I spend my free time on the tennis court, the golf course, and at the beach. I volunteer frequently around my community and enjoy every minute of it.
I am also the Lead Youth Advisor of the In Search of Me Café program and I’m involved because I like how connecting teens all over the world can help them help themselves.
I’m always around if you need any advice or if you just want to hang out.