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b'On this episode of Planet Watch, an inspiring and uplifting interview with Lynne Cherry, the originator, producer and director of\\xa0\\xa0Young Voices for the Planet films. Lynne talks about her current film project and also discusses the mental health considerations involved in educating the young about climate change and environmental crisis.
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\\nYoung Voices for the Planet, a film series, features youth working to limit climate change and its impacts in their communities and around the planet. The films document inspiring success stories of youth speaking out, creating solutions, challenging decision-makers, informing their communities, and catalyzing change. The engaging films, which feature diverse students from elementary to high school age taking on a variety of projects to reduce the carbon footprint of their homes, schools and communities, are available to students and teachers. The films are supported by standards-aligned, interdisciplinary, project-based curriculum. "The\\xa0Young Voices for the Planet\\xa0movies allow your young voices to be heard. Seeing what other young people have done and are doing will inspire you to action!"
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\\nLynne is author/illustrator of 30 award-winning children\\u2019s books including her popular and beloved rain forest classic, The Great Kapok Tree and her environmental history A River Ran Wild.\\xa0Lynne received her BA from Tyler School of Art; a Masters in History at Yale University. She has had artist-in-residencies at Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution and Cornell University and science-writing fellowships from the Marine Biological Lab and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She was a winner of a Metcalf Fellowship and the Brandwein Prize. Her academic writings include a chapter in \\u201cWritten in Water\\u201d published by National Geographic Books, a chapter \\u201cKids Can Save Forests\\u201d in \\u201cTreetops At Risk\\u201d edited by Dr. Margaret Lowman (Springer) and a chapter \\u201cTeaching Climate Change With Hope and Solutions: Lessons from a Film Project\\u201d in the book \\u201cEducation in Times of Environmental Crisis.\\u201d (Routledge, 2016)
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