Sierra Club features Team Gaia

Tonight at the community-minded Riverside Presbyterian Church (corner of Park and Post Streets) the Sierra Club will be having a climate-change centered meeting. Dr. Todd Sack from the Florida Energy Commission's task force on Climate Change will be presenting the FEC's recent report to the state legislature.

But what I'm really excited about is meeting the students from Team Gaia, who will be presenting their Emmy-nominated film on climate change, and discussing what they do. Click through and scroll down to watch. Team Gaia may be one of the most amazing things happening in Jacksonville right now. High school students, facilitated by two awesome women (the grown-ups), come up on their own with issues of importance, do research, decide how to document and communicate about the issue, and produce short films which are streamed online and broadcast on community access channels in town.

I sat down for dinner with Leni and Kaz, the highly skilled and fascinating grown-ups on the team, last week, and was impressed to the core by their trust in the kids. They don't tell these teenagers what to do or how to do it. They just hold their coats.

I think that anyone who works with youth should find this group and this meeting quite interesting.

The meeting starts at 6:30pm. Remember to bring your own cup to reduce landfill waste.

I encourage you to bike or walk, if you're in the neighborhood. The weather has been lovely!