We stand with #FridaysForFuture

Last week the 23rd Annual Webby Awards was honored to honor 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg with the Webby for Social Movement of the Year. Using #FridaysForFuture, Greta has publicized her weekly strikes from school to demand action on the climate crisis -- and students all over the world are following her lead.
This Friday (May 24) marks the Global Climate Strike: a youth-led movement in 110 countries and counting. We can’t think of a better reason to walk out of our classrooms and workplaces than to stand with children who are begging for their right to have a future on this planet.
Want to get involved? Find a march near you, donate to student organizers, and get inspired by some of this year’s Webby Winners doing amazing work to fight for the climate, below.

Watch our full moment honoring Greta Thunberg. Presented by David Wallace-Wells (author, The Uninhabitable Earth), the moment featured a video about Greta’s work; and was followed by remarks from NYC-based student climate justice activists Alexandria Villaseñor and Spencer Berg.

Here’s a statistic that should scare you: Each year 9 million tons of plastic ends up in our oceans. Webby Winner National Geographic’s Planet or Plastic pledges to prevent that number from reaching 1 billion by 2020, and it educates readers on how they can make a change.

Ever wonder what’s at the bottom of the floor? Us too. Dive (literally) into OceanX’s Webby-winning project on their 2,000 meter excursion to Antarctica to uncover what life is teeming down under.

Video games are perfect vessels for social good. Just ask 215 McCann, whose Webby-winning project Minecraft Coral Crafters called on Minecraft creators to turn community-built, in-game designs into bio-rock sculptures for a Mexican community. So cool!