Teenage Eco Warriors: Keep Austin Beautiful Event

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Keep Austin Beautiful Event

posted by emily

We are The Angsty Teenage Eco Warriors and we say go Austin Green Art!

A few months ago, the Angsty Teenage Eco Warriors, along with several other plastic bag crafters, volunteered at the spectacular Austin Green Art booth for the Keep Austin Beautiful Festival. The Austin Green Art booth is made out of plastic bags woven through cyclone fence panels

Check out this booth! We are all trying to fit into the slice of shade.

Veggie burger for volunteers YaY!

The crowd checking out the many plastic bag creations

Zarina! Future angsty warrior we hope!

Under the sweltering sun, we proudly showed off our plastic bag creations, provided information about our organization and Austin Green Art. We talked with the festival goers about plastic bag pollution and performed endless craft demos for hundreds of curious folks. We quelled our grumbling tummies with piles of veggie burgers generously provided to all volunteers for free.

Here are some pictures from when we nearly succumbed to the unforgiving Texas heat!

Sadie succumbing to the heat while donning her trademark fish hat

Katie on the left, me on the right- melting and the reusable bag give away behind us

Other highlights of this festival were the reusable bag give away by our local grocer and the A riel Dance Theater contemporary bag dance complete with incredible bag dress costumes- it was totes a fun time!- emily

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Here's a new feature- Emily's poetry corner!

A Poem

(or heat stroke you decide)

The radiance in my heart flared up like an explosion of plastic bags

that

Magically showered upon my welcoming and grateful hands

and

The joy was just too much to contain

My eyes sparkled in sudden realization

of the wonder

of the world

of bags

and

Their crinkly goodness.

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Their Mission

Displaying their typical cheekiness, sense of fun and zeal, these high school students friends since childhood, christened themselves The Teenage Eco Warriors and committed themselves to using their superpowers for good. They also committed to coerce their friends, by any means possible, to join them.

The concerns of The Teenage Eco Warriors are concerned about humanitarian and environmental issues worldwide. Their twofold mission is to identify critical environmental and humanitarian situations and to take action with engaging, effective volunteerism. Secondly, they seek to invoke power of the internet by blogging about their Teen activism. The TEW blog is a teen-written chronicle of their ideas, actions and outcomes that will serve as an interactive template to guide and inspire other small groups of like-minded teens to take action. They believe that their combined efforts will make a difference in the world.
This blog will chronicle all TEW projects as well as the efforts of other teens that have been inspired by their example, creating a forum for the exchange and innovation of teen activism ideas. Additionally the blog contains informative how-to’s and comedic craft tutorial videos.

It is their ambition to be continually inspired by their world to make a difference, and to inspire the world through their own teen brand of humanitarian and ecological activism while encouraging others to do the same.

The Teenage Eco Warrior founders are high school students in Austin, TX at LASA, The Liberal Arts and Science Academy, an urban public magnet school that educates socially responsible leaders, problem solvers, and thinkers through a nationally recognized, rigorous, innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum.