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Zanagee Artis (born 1999) is an American climate activist. He is best known for co-founding the youth-led climate activist group Zero Hour in 2017. As of 2021, Artis was Acting Policy Director of Zero Hour. [1]
In 2017, at age 15, Margolin founded the youth climate action organization Zero Hour with Nadia Nazar, [4] [8] Zanagee Artis, and other youth activists. [9] Margolin co-founded Zero Hour in reaction to the response she saw after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico [10] and her personal experience during the 2017 Washington wildfires.
Most of today's climate lawsuits have been filed in the United States, including 20 filed by U.S. cities or states against major fossil fuel companies that are likely to go to trial.
Zero Hour, a 1944 Canadian documentary film; Zero Hour!, a 1957 film written by Arthur Hailey, later parodied as Airplane! Zero Hour, a 1977 West German film directed by Edgar Reitz; The Zero Hour, a 2010 Venezuelan action film; Zero Hour (2004 TV series), a 2004 documentary-style TV show retelling tragic man-made disasters
The strategy for younger activists is to situate themselves within a specific role to create a relevant identity to others and make connections with other people on the internet. Thus, regardless of which side the activists are going to support, they are utilizing their social media as a medium to communicate with others in a shared way.
Since 2019, the Net Zero Conference has featured the annual Trailblazer Awards Gala, [9] which awards leaders who have made a positive impact on people and the environment. [10] [11] [12] Verdical Group founder and CEO, Drew Shula, created the Net Zero Conference in 2014. [13] In its first year, the conference had approximately 100 attendees. [14]
Activists claimed over 100,000 attended the national protest held in Bern in the afternoon of 28 September, while local police did not provide an estimate of attendees. Thousands arrived by train or bicycles. [211] Ahead of the U.N. 2019 climate conference, Swiss food company Nestlé said it wanted to become carbon neutral by 2050. [88]
When he left the company in the 1970s, it had over 30,000 acres of organically grown food under contract. Hawken co-founded the Smith & Hawken garden supply company in 1979, a retail and catalog business. [15] In 2009, he founded OneSun, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimicry. [16]