#Repost @nikkireed ・・・ Good morning! Happy Sunday! By now you probably know that every Sunday I donate my social media to my @YearsofLiving team to talk about carbon pricing! This week's post comes from Benedicte Adair, a student leader in upstate New York. Also we’re doing a #youthstepup contest, so please join in! Submissions are due next Friday, Aug. 3rd! “I never really expected to be involved in environmental action. To be honest, I never considered myself an environmentalist before college. I was raised in a community where things like composting and reusable grocery bags were an assumed part of everyday life. Even during my years on the Speech and Debate team, when we researched and prepared environmental arguments, we simply did so because it was an important debate topic. It wasn’t until I was randomly put into Intro to Environmental Studies my first semester when our professor asked us to rank our passion for environmentalism, that I found myself at the top of the list. I was introduced to Our Climate and the #PutAPriceOnIt campaign when a friend invited me to a carbon pricing and lobbying workshop on RIT’s campus earlier this year. Both being former debaters, we knew the science, economics, and politics behind carbon pricing practically by heart. Having met the great and passionate team at Our Climate that day, we both jumped at the opportunity to use the skills we developed from debate to finally make a difference in the world. Since then, I have begun working with them on carbon pricing in New York— including a sending a letter to my state senator in Rochester and making plans for a face to face meeting in the fall. Currently, I'm very excited for the Global Climate Action Summit and Our Climate's #YouthStepUp contest. Learn more about it at www.youthstepup.org and submit your proposal by August 3rd!” #nikkireed