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Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards in 2000 to honor founder and legendary environmental activist, David R. Brower and to call forth a new generation of leaders. This award manifests the Earth Island Institute's abiding commitment to growing environmental leadership.

The annual Brower Youth Awards honor six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. The 2009 award winners are: ROBIN BRYAN, 21, Winnipeg, MB
Robin helped save nearly one million acres of boreal forest from industrial logging.
SIERRA CRANE-MURDOCH, 21, Middlebury, VT
http://www.powerpastcoal.org
Sierra co-founded Power Past Coal to spotlight communities impacted by the mining, processing and burning of coal. ALEC LOORZ, 15, Ventura, CA
http://www.kids-vs-global-warming.com/Home.html Alec speaks to thousands about the impact of climate change on the next generation. DIANA LOPEZ, 20, San Antonio, TX
http://www.swunion.org/
Diana co-created an organic garden at a site in San Antonio, Texas, as part of the struggle for environmental justice. ADARSHA SHIVAKUMAR, 16, Pleasant Hill, CA
http://projectjatropha.com
Adarsha created Project Jatropha for a biofuel solution in rural India HAI VO, 22, Irvine, CA http://realfoodchallenge.org
Hai Vo transformed the food purchasing and eating practices at universities across California.

Find out more about the Brower Youth Award winners and their causes: http://broweryouthawards.org David Brower was a pioneering leader in the evolution of the 20th century environmental movement. Time after time in a career that evolved over more than 60 years, until his death in 2000, he saw the need for expanding what people thought of as environmental, to meet the needs of an evolving, fair, sustainable society. A key part of Brower's vision for action was his mentorship of younger emerging leaders. Earth Island Institute www.earthisland.org founded its Brower Youth Awards program to celebrate the spirit of Brower's mentoring, and it has expanded its New Leaders Initiative to provide other opportunities for young people finding their way in working for the planet's agenda.

In his sixty-plus years of activism, nothing gave David Brower greater joy than see the success of the many young leaders he mentored, among them Dave Foreman, Amory Lovins and Julia Butterfly Hill. "My secret," Dave said, "is to surround myself with bright, young people, stand back, then wallow in their accomplishments." Click here to find out more about Dave: http://www.broweryouthawards.org/article.php?list=type&type=70

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