UNEP Tunza North America Youth Network

My Name is Charles Grieve but I usually go by Chase. I am the liaison between our network and the United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office of North America. I live in California, specifically just outside of San Francisco. This Fall, I will be attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas, studying International Business and/or International Development. At my school, I have been a member of the Environmental Club for several years. I am passionate about the environment and volunteer for several organizations including the Meridian Foundation, The Baum Foundation, and the City of San Rafael Volunteer Program.

Some past projects that I have been a part of include: World Environment Day 2005 in San Francisco, World Environment Day 2007 in Oslo, Norway, The Healthy Ways Green Days Program, and various environmental cleanup projects. Locally, I am organizing a tree planting project in honor of COP 15 and the Billion Tree Campaign. Fifteen hundred dollars has been raised from the Save The Redwoods Organization to fund the greening of a school in Marin County, California, USA. I look forward to working with you all to educate and inspire other youth in North American to act on behalf of the environment. 

Hope is from central New Jersey and now lives in New York, NY.  She got her BS in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 2009, and is now pursuing her master’s in environmental engineering at Columbia University.  She has always been interested in environmental and sustainability issues, alternative energy, and resource conservation.

My name is Erica Christensen and I am from Nashville, TN, but I currently live in Memphis, TN.  During my tenure at the University of Memphis, I was extremely involved in the Environmental Action Club (EAC), which ran a successful campaign to get students to voluntarily raise their fees in order to establish a green fee. While with the EAC, I worked to help educate students about various environmental issues such as renewable energy, recycling, environmental justice, food awareness, resource conservation and sustainability.

In 2008, I interned with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, which focuses on renewable energy advocacy and education on college campuses. In 2009, I interned with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Air Policy Office, where I did research related to air and climate change policy. I plan to attend graduate school in 2011 to study environmental policy, but for now I simply enjoy riding my bicycle to work and tending to my organic fruit and vegetable garden.

By participating in the Tunzana Youth Network, I hope to be able to gain a better understanding of how an international youth movement works and how it can create real, concrete change in communities worldwide. I want to learn as much as possible from the other members and share my own experiences with them so that we can collectively build a sustainable organization that will help educate the youth and make environmental change possible. 

Eden Full is a Youth Advisor for Tunzana. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she founded Roseicollis Technologies, an embryonic social enterprise to take her solar panel tracking invention called the SunSaluter to developing communities and established markets that need them through local innovation, awareness and engagement. Eden’s belief in sustainability stems from her adventures to the Canadian Arctic, India, Kenya and the Netherlands.

Youth Climate Report