Resources

Beautiful Trouble is a vibrant resource for activists and changemakers, offering a comprehensive toolbox of creative strategies and tactics for impactful social and environmental justice campaigns. It combines case studies, principles, and practical tools drawn from grassroots movements worldwide, providing a rich repository of ideas to inspire innovative and effective actions. With its emphasis on artivism, direct action, and collaboration, Beautiful Trouble equips youth leaders with the skills and confidence to challenge injustices and drive meaningful climate action. Whether you are planning a campaign or seeking inspiration, this resource is a go-to for transformative activism.

The toolkit offers a comprehensive guide for empowering local communities to address climate challenges effectively. Rooted in systems thinking and resilience- building, the toolkit provides practical resources, case studies, and step-by-step strategies to help communities design and implement impactful climate initiatives. It focuses on fostering collaboration, engaging diverse stakeholders, and tailoring actions to local needs, making it an invaluable resource for youth-led projects. This toolkit inspires practical action, helping communities transition towards sustainability while building collective ownership of climate solutions.

The IDG Tools platform is a comprehensive resource designed to deepen understanding and practice of the Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework. It offers practical exercises, methodologies, and resources to explore the five IDG dimensions: Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting. As our toolkit adopts the IDG lens, this platform is a valuable link for those wishing to immerse further in these dimensions and skills through a variety of tailored activities.

The 29k Aware app is developed as a free, accessible mental health platform designed to offer psychological tools for mental health and inner development.
Grounded in expert knowledge from psychologists and scientific literature, it provides open and private hosted live sessions, allowing users to process emotions and develop inner resilience through structured activities.

Youth engagement has been a central focus in the app’s development. The team conducted interviews with young people, teachers, sports leaders, and NGOs working with youth, alongside systematic scientific literature reviews, to ensure the app’s design is user-centered and evidence-based.

The 29k Aware app stands out as a scientifically developed, free platform that offers:

• Live Sessions: Open or private hosted sessions facilitated by psychologists to help users address their mental health concerns.
• Supportive Community: A digital space for individuals to connect with others facing similar challenges, creating a sense of solidarity and shared purpose.
• Evidence-Based Design: Development informed by extensive interviews, user testing, and a systematic literature review to ensure effectiveness.
• Focus on Inner Development: Activities and exercises that promote emotional resilience, sustainable habits, and personal growth.

Download app on Apple Store here and on Google Play here

Earth Hero is a free mobile app designed by a global team of volunteers committed to climate action. The app focuses on individual empowerment through personalized action plans rooted in science-based recommendations from the IPCC. Users can set climate pollution reduction targets, track their progress, and adopt new habits to reduce their carbon footprints.

The app promotes both individual and collective action. By connecting users to a global network of change makers, Earth Hero encourages collaboration and systemic impact. The platform also supports inclusivity and transparency, ensuring all users feel represented and respected, with their privacy safeguarded. By integrating technology and community, Earth Hero transforms the often-overwhelming challenge of climate change into actionable steps, fostering hope and determination among its users.

This comprehensive handbook explores the power and potential of grassroots movements in addressing the climate crisis. It offers a global perspective on how local communities and citizen-led initiatives are mobilizing for climate justice, highlighting strategies, challenges, and successes from diverse contexts. The book delves into innovative activism methods, from direct action to community-based approaches, while providing insights into the dynamics of grassroots organizing and its role in shaping systemic change. Ideal for youth leaders and activists, this handbook serves as both an inspiration and a guide for building impactful, community-driven climate movements.

This book offers invaluable insights into creating meaningful and impactful gatherings, whether they are meetings, workshops, or community events. Priya Parker emphasizes the importance of intentional design and purpose-driven facilitation to foster connection, collaboration, and trust among participants. For a young leader using this toolkit, the book provides practical strategies for organizing inclusive and engaging gatherings, essential for mobilizing others around climate action. By understanding how to bring people together effectively, young leaders can create spaces that inspire collective action and drive positive change.

This book introduces a transformative approach to communication that emphasizes empathy, understanding, and connection. It offers practical tools to navigate conflicts, build trust, and create collaborative dialogue in diverse group settings.
These skills are essential for fostering inclusivity, resolving differences, and inspiring shared purpose, enabling effective collaboration in tackling complex global challenges like climate action.

A Japanese manga series that tells the story of Nausicaä, a princess of a small kingdom on a post apocalyptic Earth with a toxic ecosystem. She soon becomes involved in a war between kingdoms while an environmental disaster threatens humankind. The series is translated in English and there’s also a 1984 film adaptation.

A graphic memoir that chronicles the author’s time working in Canada’s oil sands to pay off student debt. Through raw, evocative illustrations, Beaton explores themes of isolation, environmental impact, and the harsh realities of life in a male-dominated industrial workplace.

Being the Change explores the connections between our individual daily actions and our collective predicament. It merges science, spirituality, and practical action to empower you to move away from a consumerist lifestyle and create a just and carbon free future.

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.

If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie weaves mythology, eco-feminism, and personal narrative to explore the deep connections between women, the land, and the natural world. Blackie invites readers on a transformative journey to rediscover a sense of belonging and authenticity through the wisdom of Celtic stories and the landscapes they evoke. The book serves as a powerful call to action, inspiring readers to reconnect with their environment, heritage, and inner selves, fostering a profound sense of connectedness essential for nurturing a harmonious relationship with the earth.

Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?

This ancient Chinese text offers profound lessons on balance and harmony. Its teachings inspire mindful decision-making, humility, and aligned actions. In the context of climate action, the Tao Te Ching reminds us to work with nature, not against it, integrating sustainable practices into collective efforts.

Narrated by David Attenborough, this series focuses on the wildlife and natural wonders of eight different ecosystems and the devastating impact of climate change.
It fosters empathy by showing the beauty of life on Earth, encouraging all of us to reflect on their responsibility to protect it.

“Taking Root” tells the inspiring story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who founded the Green Belt Movement, empowering women to plant trees as a solution to deforestation, poverty, and malnutrition.

This video highlights how artists and innovators contribute to environmental protection and inspire climate action through their creative endeavors.

A movie with no words, no narrative or voice-over. Yet a documentary that feels like a journey around the world in 96 minutes. It combines breathtaking footage of nature, people, and cultures. Watching it feels like opening your eyes to the beauty and complexity of the planet and asking yourself how we fit into this incredible tapestry of life.

Bigger than Us is an inspiring documentary that follows the journey of young changemakers from around the world who are tackling some of the most pressing global challenges, including climate a ction, social justice, and human rights.
Through the eyes of Melati Wijsen, a 19-year-old activist from Bali, the film explores the power of youth-led initiatives and the resilience needed to drive meaningful change. It serves as a powerful reminder that collective action, fueled by courage and determination, can lead to transformative impact. Watching this film will motivate you to reflect on your own potential to make a difference and connect you to the global movement for a sustainable and equitable future.

“If you are like most people, there is a gap between the person you are and the person you wish to be. There are little things you think you should do and big things you ought to achieve.” Watch this video to learn how to start new habits and gradually change your life.

A playlist by the famous youtube channel that presents climate change in an explanatory and hopeful way. They explain most aspects of climate change and their purpose is to deliver the message that “humanity is not doomed.”

In this short film, spoken word artist Prince Ea makes a powerful case for protecting the planet and challenges the human race to create a sustainable future.

Ubuntu is an African philosophy that emphasizes communal relationships and mutual care, encapsulated in the phrase “I am because we are.” This worldview fosters a sense of shared responsibility and interconnectedness, which is vital for collective climate action. By embracing Ubuntu, individuals recognize that their well- being is tied to the well-being of others and the environment, promoting sustainable practices that benefit the entire community.

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? “Like a doughnut”, says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole – where people are falling short on life’s essentials – and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet’s ecological limits.

An Instagram account that explores decolonization, current events, healing and nature.

An Instagram account and an education platform that supports people to disrupt their racism and bias.
https://www.theconsciouskid.org/

An impact driven media platform producing content to transform climate, culture, and consciousness.

Good news for the planet you may not have heard

A British writer, activist and organizer, Mikaela uses her accounts to help people organize and build a powerful climate justice movement.

A NASA scientist and climate campaigner in a mission to stop the expansion of fossil fuel projects worldwide. You may have seen Peter’s many viral posts and tweets, he was the most-followed climate scientist on X before people rapidly left the platform.

A Filipina anti-imperialist climate justice activist frequently posting on the intersectionality of climate change.

US Pakistani human rights lawyer and land defender. With viral speeches at the UN Climate Change Negotiations, she connects climate change with land issues, migration and human rights abuses. Watch her reading a powerful poem she wrote at COP27 back in 2022.

An indigenous rights advocate and environmental rights activists that speaks about water rights across the world.

NASA is on a mission to make climate science popular and accessible to all. Their site offers a vast source of resources in order for you to understand climate change.
THE place to start.

The United Nations organization tasked with addressing the #ClimateCrisis

By now, you should have realized that climate change is not only about the environment. This space highlights the stories of the people and communities most impacted by climate change. It also offers a platform of organizations and movements across the globe fighting for environmental and climate justice.

Mostly US based, a movement of young people organising to “put everyday people back in charge and build a world that works for all of us, now and for generations to come.” If you’re not from US, you can follow them to understand how they are building up their organisation power.

A coalition of grassroots radical youth organisations from across the world is now building up. ANGRY is a representative body for grassroots youth organisers who are attending or engaging with the climate change negotiations (UNFCCC process). Add your name and join the list of Angry Youth across the world!

Follow them on social media channels @angryalliance

A network of children and youth organisations, groups, and individuals who identify themselves as children or youth below the age of 35 years. YOUNGO is by youth, with youth, for youth and is the official youth constituency of the UNFCCC. Everyone up to the age of 35 and interested or engaged in climate action and advocacy is welcome to become a YOUNGO member. Just fill this form.

An educational social media platform run by volunteers that is producing content to move people towards demanding a fossil fuel free and just future. People can volunteer to help them run the platform and/or take action.
@undeniable.network

The Learning Planet Festival is a global event that celebrates learning as a way to inspire collective action for a better future. It brings together youth, educators, and organisations to share innovative ideas and solutions addressing the world’s most pressing challenges, including climate action.

Zero Hour is a youth-led movement that centers on addressing climate change and environmental justice with a strong focus on frontline communities. Founded by young activists, the campaign emphasizes the urgency of climate action, raising awareness about the intersection of social and environmental issues. Through advocacy, education, and public mobilization, Zero Hour empowers youth to take leadership roles in demanding systemic changes that address climate crises and their disproportionate impacts on marginalized communities.

Visit thisiszerohour.org to explore their initiatives and find ways to join the movement.

We, Youth for Climate Justice (WY4CJ) is a global initiative that empowers youth to advocate for climate justice by amplifying their voices in international legal and policy spaces. WY4CJ works to hold governments and corporations accountable for their climate commitments, focusing on the rights of future generations and the protection of vulnerable communities. By mobilising youth globally, WY4CJ fosters leadership, legal literacy, and collective action to combat the climate crisis.

Explore wy4cj.org to discover how you can join their movement, access resources, and contribute to impactful climate justice advocacy.

A global campaign demanding the removal of fossil fuel companies and their lobbyists from international climate negotiations. These corporations, whose profits rely on driving climate change, undermine meaningful climate action and prioritize their interests over the planet’s future. By exposing their influence and calling for policies free from corporate interference, the campaign seeks to empower governments to act in the best interest of people and the environment.

Visit kickbigpollutersout.org to join the campaign.

Fridays for Future is a global youth-led movement inspired by Greta Thunberg’s school strike for climate action. It encourages young people worldwide to take a stand against climate inaction by organizing strikes, protests, and awareness campaigns. The movement amplifies the voices of youth demanding urgent climate policies to limit global warming and ensure a sustainable future. Through grassroots mobilisation, Fridays for Future fosters community-driven action, inspires collective responsibility, and challenges political and corporate leaders to prioritize climate justice. Its decentralized, inclusive approach empowers young activists to advocate for change at local, national, and international levels.

Visit fridaysforfuture.org to find out more and join.