It’s Getting Hot In Here

As a crew of us Sierra Youth Coalition members from
across the country came together for a weekend-long sustainability conference in Ottawa, Ontario, we figured we might as well do some radical cheerleading while in our beautiful country’s capital!

Sunday night, clad in red, white and black, about a dozen of us cheered climate cheers outside a movie theatre showing Al Gore’s new climate crisis film: An Inconvenient Truth. We gave it our all encouraging people to take action, had people behind a “Truth Booth” and others passing out flyers (Top 10 ways to take action on climate change) and selling our youth action guides!

It was the perfect way to end the weekend – high energy and fun, and people stopped in the streets to join the good times! Check out our press release below, and give this a go in your own town!
Check out more of Matthew Carroll’s photos here!

Sierra Youth Coalition – Press Release – June 12, 2006

Truthful & Youthful: Youth Encourage Movie-Goers to Take Action on Climate Change

(Ottawa) – Last night outside the Bytown Theatre in downtown Ottawa, a group of about a dozen youth from the Sierra Youth Coalition brought high-energy, choreographed cheers to movie-goers leaving a screening of of Al Gore’s new film “An InconvenientTruth”.

“The new Conservative government has slashed climate funding and walked away fromCanada’s international obligations”, said Meredith James from Edmonton AB. “In return,Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment Minister Rona Ambrose have offered Canadians no viable options for dealing with the pressing global environmental problemof climate change and have reneged on Canada’s international commitments under Kyoto”.
Youth came together in Ottawa from across Canada for meetings and action on climateissues in Canada. In bright costumes the youth cheered for climate solutions anddanced to raise awareness about what Canadians can do to address climate change. Singing “Ooooh, its getting hot in here/ There’s too much carbon in the atmosphere”, the “Climate change is a critical global issue,” said Zoë Caron from Halifax NS. “We puttogether an action guide with great ideas from across North America about how we cantake action on climate change in our own communities. The guide can be downloaded at our website at www.syc-cjs.org/sustainable.”

Youth are a key component of the climate change movement. “We are excited to be able to bring Canadians a positive message from a fresh perspective,” said Ben Powles fromOttawa.
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Contact Persons

Meredith James, Outreach Coordinator, Sierra Club of Canada – Prairie Chapter Meredith@sierraclub.ca

Jeca Glor-Bell, Youth Representative, Sierra Club of Canada National Boar
jeca@syc-cjs.org