A short documentary by American teen, Chloe Maxmin, on the need to eliminate plastic bags.

Link: First Here, Then Everywhere (Official Website)

Every community needs champions for the environment.  In more and more communities, those champions are young people just like you.

You can take the lead in educating your peers as well as adults on key environmental challenges facing our planet, and show everyone what simple actions they can take to make things better.

Green Teens, USA is a great example of such a club.  After launching with seed funding from Ashoka GenV, Green Teens has organized events to promote the use of cloth bags, compact fluorescent bulbs, and biodegradable cups.

Every year, more than 300 million pieces of electronics - computers, cell phones, all kinds of gadgets - are SCRAPPED.

Whether they’re burned or dumped, they leak harmful toxins into the environment, contaminating our water, land and air.

Alex Lin, 14, installed the first ever e-waste receptacle in his town of Westerly, Rhode Island (USA), and pushed for passage of laws banning the dumping of e-waste.

See how he did it in video below.

Unable to afford school fees, William Kamkwamba, 14, dropped out of secondary school in Malawi and taught himself to make a windmill from scratch.

His invention generated more than just electricity for his village (which never had power), but also lots of attention - from the media and the social sector.

Why? Not only does he show how innovative young people can be, he also offers hope that Africa can power itself with clean renewable energy.

Watch William’s remarkable story in this short documentary (below) that premiered on Pangea Day.