By: Chicago Public Schools

We decided to choose this topic because we feel everyone is insecure about something and we wanted to address some of our insecurities. We interviewed students whom had insecurities, and we used the most common topics. We wanted our peers to relate to them. We had three st…

By: Exhibits

Young South African filmmakers celebrate their mothers’ resilience to overcome the obstacles that lay before them.

By: Exhibits

The Hidden Cost of Cashmere cleverly links America’s appetite for cheap consumer goods with desertification and the growing environmental crisis.

By: Beyond Green

Once a booming center of the American Industrial Revolution, Worcester, Massachusetts’ Main South area is now showing sings of abandonment with children at risk of brain damage, stunted growth and reproductive problems caused by lead poisoning found in their own back…

By: Beyond Green

In the tradition of Colombia’s Nasa indigenous people, Edilfredo’s mother buried his umbilical chord to honor Edilfredo’s first tie to Mother Earth.  The challenges of violence an alcoholism in rural Colombia have strained Edilfredo’s close tie…

By: Beyond Green

The outskirts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, are bleak.  While 12 year-old Arthur is proud of his birthplace and home, he has also witnessed the elimination of almost all of Yerevan’s trees for firewood during an energy crisis.  Developers have decided…

By: Beyond Green

16 year-old David Were lives in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi.  Basic facilities like the bathroom become an enormous chore as the family uses buckets and plastic bags to dispose of human waste.  The b…

By: Beyond Green

When Marisol Becerra was a little girl, she thought that the huge smokestacks in her community, Chicago’s “Little Village,” were a “Cloud Factory.”  Years later, as she watched her younger sister Brenda suffer from Asthma, she realized th…