Partnering with urban youth on upstream solutions, civic action, media and messaging to reduce plastic marine debris and microplastics.
Cafeteria Culture Executive Director, Debby Lee Cohen (left photo, in center) and Media Director, Atsuko Quirk (bottom photo, waving) were honored to present at the United Nations Headquarters in NYC on Wednesday, June 15th as part of the 17th Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP-17) - Marine Debris, Plastics and Microplastics. Our presentation was titled: Partnering with urban youth on upstream solutions, civic action, media and messaging to reduce plastic marine debris and microplastics. We were thrilled to be able to share our plastic pollution reduction efforts with the distinguished UN delegates from all over the world - accomplishments made possible by our partnerships with incredible NYC public school students, teachers, school communities, and government agencies that we have worked with on reducing plastic litter in NYC!
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Brooklyn 8th grade students have been working hard behind the scenes on The Journey of Plastic Litter. They studied the issues, storyboarded their concepts, created artwork for animation, and did a fabulous job editing with charming sound effects! As part of Cafeteria Culture's Youth Arts + Media for Trash Free Waters Program at MS246 Walt Whitman, in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, students from class 804 created a series of short documentary videos on the local and global issues of plastic marine pollution. Watch the Journey of Plastic Litter, the first in the series, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, CafCu Media! We will be posting new #TrashFreeWaters videos all month long. These shorts with their fresh youth-POV are not to be missed! Get inspired then, take action for #TrashFreeWaters. Action Alert on the NYC #BYObag bill here-> Thank you for watching and sharing! Cafeteria Culture's YOUTH ARTS + MEDIA for TRASH FREE WATERS School Program (2016) has been generously funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2, Sustainable Materials Management Section, CASD. Cafeteria Culture is most appreciative of additional support via our UL Innovative Education Award (2015) and The Fund for the City of New York. Watch our latest co-created video and get inspired to take action for a TRASH FREE NYC and world! Then share this video with the hashtag #SaveACritter.
Cafeteria Culture is teaching our unique curriculum, YOUTH MEDIA + ARTS for TRASH FREE WATERS, to rising 8th grade filmmakers at MS246 Walt Whitman in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. We are empowering students with cameras and storytelling skills to think critically about real world environmental problems and to instigate their own Trash Free Waters messaging for their communities and for the entire world! Students are debating, asking questions, and telling their own powerful stories about how street litter becomes toxic marine pollution. Help us by sharing this video! Use #SaveACritter today, tomorrow and all week long! Watch the video on Vimeo here. Are you aware that everything you "throw away" will be negatively impacting some community along the journey to a waste transfer station, landfill or incinerator?
Most NYC residents never think about this, unless, of course, garbage is being dumped in one's own "backyard." So why should you care? Watch this short video, created by 8th graders in our program, and find out! There is not a single NYC community that wants hundreds of garbage filled, carbon spewing trucks driving through it's streets. NYC is close to spending $1 BILLION on improving NYC garbage transfer yet, we spend only a tiny fraction of that amount on innovating REDUCE EDUCATION! (more ->) |
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