service learning

Ready For Positive Media? Help HopeMob.org Get Kickstarted!

February 16, 2012 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Update: Feb 17, 2012 Boom! And that's how it's done. Congrats HopeMob.Congrats world. Feb 16, 2012 Tired of skanky media with lousy messages and negative role models? Prefer to find fabulously … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, Believe, Blame Drew's Cancer, change agents, Changemakers, CNN Heroes, crowdsourcing, digital activism, Do Good, GameChangers, Gen Z, Haiti tents, Hope Mob, HopeMob, Humane Education, Inspiring Media, Kickstarter, marketing hope, microfunding, mindfulness, mobile-social, MTV Act, positive media influence, role models, service learning, Shaun King, social change, social-media, socially responsible, Tapestries-of-Hope, when generous strangers unite, wisdom of crowds, youth activism

Earth Day: 40 Eco Links Worth Recycling to Friends

April 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

April 20, 2020 Update: (How often does that happen 20-2020?) 4-21-2020: Amidst the "Contagion" concerns of COVID-19, take a moment to imagine what POSITIVE CONTAGION taking action on climate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #EarthDay2016, altruism, apps, avatar, behavior, blue is the new green, Blue Planet, cause marketing, CauseWorld, change agents, climate change, dirty thirty, Discover the forest, Disneynature, Earth Day, eco, eco heroes, eco labels, eco literacy, eco-friendly, ecology, Energy Star, Envirolution, Environment, Forest Ethics, Fun theory, Get 'Em Outside, green games, Green my Parents, green toys, Green TV, Green-Teens, greenwashing, habitat, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child Healthy World, how to turn people green, influence, Kids, marketing hope, media-literacy, mindfulness, NCLI, Ocean Conservancy, oceanized, Oceans, One world, philanthropy, planet stewards, Plastiki, reach and teach, recycling, safe cosmetics, Save Our Seas, save the planet, Sea Turtles, service learning, social gaming, socially responsible, Sustainability, The Lorax, unplugged, youth

Spring Break 2010: Service Learning from Teens Turning Green

April 3, 2010 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

April 3, 2010 While media reports often churn out attention-getting stereotypes of spring break scenes of rowdy youth antics under the auspices of ‘what sells,’ to feed the money machine, we all too … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Anne Colllier, Asset Based Thinking, ayiti, Ayiti The Cost of Life, citizenship, Connect Safely, digital-natives, Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award, disaster relief, Do Something, eco, Erin Schrode, extraordinary teens, Global Kids, green, Green my Parents, haiti, Harvard-Medical-School-Adolescent-Research, Ideation Conference, James Alcime, KooDooZ, Lee Fox, making a difference, Media Unplugged, Medishare, NYU, philanthropy, serious-games, service learning, ShelterBox, spring break, Students, Sustainability, teens, Teens Turning Green, unplugged, virtual, virtuous, voluntourism

Youth Advice Slinger With A Story to Tell: Josh Shipp

June 8, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

June 8, 2009 One week ago today I watched Josh Shipp, a guy who self-defined as a high school class clown with hair that “looks like a chia pet” open the Ypulse Youth Marketing “Mashup” as keynote … [Read more...]

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