Brower Youth Awards — Victor Davila
Rikshaw Films
(USA, 2011, 4 min)
Making environmental education fun and engaging for young folks is Victor Davila’s passion. Which is why he set up EcoRyders, a series of summer workshops that combine environmental and health education with skateboarding. Workshop participants build their own skateboards and learn about pressing environmental issues in their community. EcoRyders offers a way to tackle both high obesity rates among local youth as well as lack of public transportation in the area.
This is one of six beautiful films that highlight the activism of The Earth Island Institute’s 2011 Brower Youth Award winners, today’s most visionary and strategic young environmentalists.
www.rikshawfilms.com
www.broweryouthawards.org
www.surfingforchange.com
www.thepoint.org
www.urbantilth.org
