Hrafnhildur Haraldsdóttir, Iceland
How we can promote old traditions and heritage is through educating our younger generations. They are our future and we need to educate them, especially about their heritage and how we survived back in the day.
Being from Iceland, where we have really harsh winters, we had to learn how to use our limited resources in a respectful way, and we are so proud of that. So we need to teach our younger generations how we did that.
Jessica Lane, Australia
I myself am currently studying a double major of journalism, creative writing, and publishing to use modern technology to share environmental sustainability and promote passion.
In Australia, our heritage relates to Dreamtime Stories, and they use storytelling to promote this environmental sustainability and teach how to care for the land. I believe that we can use modern technology such as our journalism, such as our social media, such as news and broadcast, to share and inspire one another to be more sustainable in daily actions.
Niva Antezana, Peru
My Peruvian ancestors have traditions very deeply rooted and connected with Mother Earth. I would love to use social media. It is true that social media can be used in both ways, but I would use social media to promote all traditions so we can teach the new generation.
Bea Millan-Windorski, USA
Earlier, I mentioned that I’m from a nation of immigrants. However, the first people of my country, indigenous people, said, we don’t inherit the world from our ancestors.
Rather, we borrow it from our children. And I think if we return to natural modes of production, understand the value of nature rather than trying to continuously push forward with technology, we would understand that features like peatlands actually conserve 33% of the world’s carbon.
Our planet and its ecosystems are the most effective way to save our planet from global warming.
