Adarsha Shivakumar - Brower Youth Award Winner 2009
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http://projectjatropha.com
Adarsha recognized the complex relationship between the economy and the environment. In December of 2007, he co-founded Project Jatropha, an organization dedicated to promoting the plant Jatropha curcas as an ecologically friendly and economically profitable crop among the farmers of rural India. Project Jatropha collaborated with Parivarthana, an NGO that helps farmers, and Labland Biotechs, a plant biotechnology company, in order to convince farmers that raising Jatropha was an economically sustainable project.
After demonstrating the conversion of Jatropha seeds into biofuel, Adarsha redistributed the biofuel so that farmers could test it on their irrigation pumps. The results were clear: the biofuel burned cleaner and worked smoother than the diesel that had previously been used. Armed with this knowledge, farmers set about planting the 1,000 Jatropha seedlings Adarsha had purchased for them using the money he earned by winning the 2006 CA spelling bee.
“Carbon dioxide emissions are local, but their effects are global. Though this project is located in India, it is hoped that it will spearhead a movement that will eventually help mitigate global warming from CO2 emission and decrease the dependence on fossil fuels.” Recently, Project Jatropha expanded its operations and distributed 13,000 seedlings to a wider base of interested farmers.
The annual Brower Youth Awards honor six young people across North America for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards in 2000 to honor our founder and legendary environmental activist, David R. Brower.
www.broweryouthawards.org
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HeartFactory
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High five!
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HeartFactory
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newbeginnings
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Truly inspiring.
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newbeginnings
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sk8bs55
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i couldn't agree more. we are the youth of the nation; future leaders of the world, it is our responsibility to preserve and protect that which has gone to seed-that which has been taken from us by greed.
people need to realize these things, that contrary to popular culture it is not all about the individual. it is about us....all of us because, we are all in this together. it is true, what Einstein said, "everything is relative."
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sk8bs55
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conservativelyliberal
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Awesome stuff! - I believe our generation will save the world -
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conservativelyliberal
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pandaman2105
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this guy's a badass example of what our generation can accomplish if they think about what they can do, and realize they can actually do it and make a change.
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pandaman2105
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zueisonfire
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Ahhhhhhmazing.
good to see the youth doing it big.
It inspires me. =] - 2 years ago
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