Generation Waking Up

“If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren’t hopeless, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a heart” – Paul Hawken in Blessed Unrest The science is in on climate change, and things aren’t good.  We don’t have …

A certain practiced apathy exists among those who choose to roam the political spectrum. It doesn’t pay to get overly attached to a certain idea or person when in another moment a gigantic media upset could destroy everything any man ever stood for and with that any chance of that individual taking his or her place in office. Take everything …

Hello GenUp, My name is Weaw. I’m in Oakland, by way of Tokyo, by way of Bangkok. I am an intern with GenUp for two months in this beautiful summer. Here is a bit of my story: Traveling back through the time machine and taking a look back on my life: Both of my grandparent migrated from China to Thailand, …

My name is Kira Poncelet, and I’m a senior at Head-Royce School, a small private school in Oakland, California. At the end of the year, seniors get a month off of school for Senior Projects, which allow students to intern and shadow jobs in areas of interest.  For my senior project I decided to work at Generation Waking Up in …

I am sitting in the Pachamama Alliance and Generation Waking Up shared office drinking green tea, totally fired up from my bike ride to work where I was treated to stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the vast, cold Pacific ocean.  My name is Dan Jubelirer, and I am from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a college student …

Darcie Jordan is a 17 year old WakeUp facilitator and powerhouse changemaker from Melbourne, Australia. Here, she shares how she became involved with Generation Waking Up and the path ahead for GenUp Australia From an early age, youth leadership was a major part of my upbringing. Through school initiatives and community organizations across Australia, I developed essential leadership qualities that …

Generation Waking Up is a global campaign based upon one powerful formula that we call “Theory G” – creating a grassroots, generation-wide, global movement to transform every sector of society. Our campaign has three key elements: 1. Awakening in young people a generation-wide identity and global calling, 2. Empowering young people as thriving, 21st-century agents of change, and 3. Mobilizing young people around shared purpose, holistic …