C01, How “Neutrals” Can Help Change the World: Saving Our Planet Earth and Children – Alexia Georgakopoulos (Non CME)

There may be no greater threat to future generations than Climate Change and nothing more valuable to humanity than our children as they represent our future. Two current projects will illustrate how mediators and facilitators can help change the world. Project One: 2014 was the hottest year on record. The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. This is a time that climate change conditions are volatile and unprecedented in the history of the human race. It seems fitting that facilitators can assist in public policy discussions. What began in the White House is now a topic underway in our state with leadership from a House Representative. Dr. Georgakopoulos was invited as the lead facilitator. Project Two: Mediators and facilitators can make a difference in the lives of youth who can learn what the value of peace means as a verb.This READING PEACE PAL PROJECT joins everyday ordinary citizens in the community with local youth.