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This Is Planet Ed @ThisIsPlanetEd

Formerly Aspen K12 Climate Action; Mobilizing K-12, early years, higher education, and children’s media to advance climate solutions @AIEnvironment

Joined August 2020
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This Is Planet Ed@ThisIsPlanetEd
21 Sep 2021
Over the last year, we’ve heard from students, educators, parents, district leaders, and more about how they’ve taken #ClimateAction in schools. Their successes informed our Action Plan and policy recommendations to help more schools take #K12ClimateAction.
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#EarthDay Every Day 🌎 Check out the Planet Media YouTube channel to learn about what actions we all can do to take care of our shared home:
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22 Apr 2025
In honor of Earth Day, @ThisIsPlanetEd has curated a collection of engaging apps for children ages 0-12, exploring environmental themes like eco-friendly cities, weather, conservation, and global ecosystems. 🌎 Explore the collection: play.google.com/store/apps/e…

Earth Day, every day

This Is Planet Ed, an Aspen Institute initiative, leverages the transformative power of education to drive climate solutions. Aligned with the Aspen Institute's mission to ignite human potential for...

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17 Apr 2025
Earlier this year, fires in LA disrupted learning for over 700k students and damaged 14 schools. Watch the video for "Wild Hope" and learn more from @ThisIsPlanetEd about talking with children about climate change and how to support LA students: thisisplaneted.org/resources…

Climate Hope, Climate Action - This Is Planet Ed

Our changing climate not only shapes the future for children and youth, it shapes their world today. Open conversation can help cultivate wild hope – a fierce determination to empower the next...

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9 Apr 2025
"Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick and Sprout" is part of a small group of climate change-related media made specifically for kids—and a study from @ThisIsPlanetEd highlights the growing demand from parents for solutions-focused climate media for kids. npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-534…

This YouTube show explains climate change to the kids who have to live with it

Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick is an up-and-coming educator and TV host with a YouTube series tailored to kids ages 4 through 8.

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🎬This Is Planet Ed's Planet Media initiative is excited to announce the release of the Toolkit for Climate Storytelling. This guide helps creators bring climate solutions to kids' media with strategies, actionable tips and bright spots! ⬇️⬇️ thisisplaneted.org/resources…

Content Creators Toolkit - This Is Planet Ed

This toolkit equips content creators with four essential climate principles and strategies to help children and families understand our changing climate, promoting climate literacy and empowering...

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The devastation from the wildfires has left communities facing unimaginable loss. "When trauma like this occurs, it will take a significant amount of work to put kids and teachers in the best place to support learning again." @laschifter12 thehill.com/changing-america…

Los Angeles-area schools face trauma and a long road back

California schools and students are facing a long road to recovery as wildfires in the Los Angeles area damage dozens of school buildings and take hundreds of thousands of children out of the class…

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2024 ➡️ 2025 📣We look forward to the work ahead of us in #2025 to build a sustainable resilient and equitable future for all people! View the FULL Year In Review here thisisplaneted.org/resources…
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Thank you to our amazing co-chairs and Task Force members across all of our areas of work. Thank you to our partners: the students, educators, parents, schools, communities, and organizations who are leading this work on the ground across the country.
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📌Check out @laschifter12 's interview with @LuminaryLabs: "We need to start thinking about how we’re leveraging education to actually build our societal capacity to address climate change. People got us into this problem, we need people to get us out." luminary-labs.com/transformi…

Transforming education to drive climate solutions | Luminary Labs

An interview with Laura Schifter, Senior Fellow at This is Planet Ed.

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#HigherEd Climate Action TF members, @jamiemerisotis ,@EloyOakley and @Lande_Ajose emphasize that every sector of philanthropy needs to think about the implications of climate change and find a role in cultivating solutions. Read Here⬇️ @InsidePhilanthr insidephilanthropy.com/home/…

To Advance Our Social Missions, Philanthropy Needs to Address Climate Change

As climate disasters devastate communities, guest authors Jamie Merisotis, Eloy Ortiz Oakley and Lande Ajose call for funders of all stripes to factor the global crisis into their work.

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This Is Planet Ed @laschifter12 on @CNN: "We need to start taking actions...and it is critically important to teach about climate change to ensure students have the understanding, knowledge and skills to be successful in a changing climate," Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=-_J35BQF…

CNN Interview: The Impact of Climate Change on Children’s Education

The impacts of climate change are happening now, and many students ...

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Knology@KnologyResearch
10 Oct 2024
In the latest issue of our #BlackRep4Kids newsletter, project advisor @AnthonyFrasier discusses how resources from @ThisIsPlanetEd, @CommonSense, and @Nickelodeon can help create climate media that addresses the needs of Black children and their families. mailchi.mp/knology/blackrep4…

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📗What is “climate literacy”? What are the ABCs, the grammar and vocabulary, of climate change? This Is Planet Ed Senior Advisor @anya1anya highlights this question in a new @hechingerreport column. Read more: ⬇️ hechingerreport.org/column-e…

COLUMN: Education that convinces kids the world isn’t doomed

Recognizing that students need to know more about climate change than just the science, dozens of federal agencies released a major new guide on ‘climate literacy,’ and one state, Colorado, inaugur...

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25 Sep 2024
Higher ed 🤝 climate action @ThisIsPlanetEd’s recently released Higher Ed Climate Action Plan underscores the need to educate and support students to advance climate solutions. Read more: thisisplaneted.org/resources…
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NEW: #HigherEd Climate Action Task Force members @CarrieBHauser @ColoMtnCollege, @NAU José Luis Cruz Rivera, & @JayPerman @Univ_System_MD on the crucial role of governing boards in advancing climate action in higher education. 🎓 @AGBInsights Read more: agb.org/trusteeship-article/…

The Role of Governing Boards in Advancing Climate Action

From academic affairs and student enrollment to strategic planning and fiscal integrity, all aspects of the higher education enterprise overseen by governing boards are impacted by climate change.

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Amazing work @JohnBKing! 🌎 🎊Fantastic to see NY recognizing the crucial role education leaders play in being a part of the states efforts to address climate change transition to a clean economy!
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29 Aug 2024
TY @GovKathyHochul for opportunity to serve on NY State Energy Planning Board to help map path to “clean, resilient, & affordable energy system for all NYers.” Proud of @SUNY’s leadership in sustainability, prep for green jobs, & renewable energy research. governor.ny.gov/news/governo…
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29 Aug 2024
Check out the new sizzle reel for @ThisIsPlanetEd's Planet Media, which will be playing in theaters nationwide before highly anticipated PG-rated movies thanks to a new collaboration with @NCMNews. 🌎 youtube.com/watch?v=0mlrZmWR…

Introducing: Planet Media

Planet Media seeks to harness the reach and influence of media to s...

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📖Back-to-school season is here, and so is a focus on climate education! @ThisIsPlanetEd Senior Advisor, @anya1anya, explores how universities are rethinking the study of sustainability at the undergraduate & graduate levels. Learn more: #HigherEd ⬇️ hechingerreport.org/column-w…

COLUMN: ‘We want every major to be a climate major’

How climate change and environmental sustainability are finding their way into more places across higher ed curricula

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NEW: In partnership with @nature_org, @ThisIsPlanetEd worked directly with young leaders from across the country to co-produce a toolkit full of talking points, advocacy strategies, AND bright spots. Check it out⬇️ #YCAT thisisplaneted.org/resources…

Youth Climate Action Toolkit - This Is Planet Ed

This Is Planet Ed and The Nature Conservancy worked directly with youth leaders co-produce a Youth Climate Action Toolkit (YCAT), which provides strategies, ideas, and real-life examples to inspire...

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16 Aug 2024
Replying to @SUNYChancellor
@SUNYChancellor & ESF President Mahoney recently participated in the official launch of the Higher Ed Climate Action Plan hosted by The Aspen Institute. Learn how higher education help foster a climate safe, just, and vibrant future #HECAP @ThisIsPlanetEd bit.ly/4d816mw
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