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Sixteen-year-old Hawaiian environmental activist Rylee Brooke hasn’t just been fighting for the environment – and the rights of keiki (young people) – since the age of eight, she’s teaching other young people and adults how to make change and make laws. Adventures in changing things locally and globally, making the case for Vote 16 and proving that young people can do pretty much anything – including inspiring law-makers to do better.
Shownotes:3:30 Meet Rylee Brooke. “I kind of grew up doing community service.”
7:12 Starting “The Plastics Project” and sparking youth-run beach clean-ups at age eight.
8:20 How 15 kids clean up 500 pounds of plastic. In one day!
10:20 The power of social media. And the local grapevine.
12:45 Learning to create law – and teaching young people how to create laws. “I got into writing my own bills…”
15:40 “I was asked to be part of the first youth-led conservation case… I was one of the thirteen plaintiffs on that.”
20:00 Vote 16 and the fight to lower the voting age in Hawaii and throughout the US.
22:08 Shark diving with Ocean Ramsey.
23:23 “I think just a kid coming in to speak is really powerful.” On getting comfortable talking to politicians and crowds.
28:24 Advice for other young people and, really, everyone. “It’s really figuring out what you’re passionate about.”
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