We're still booking presentations with teachers across the Kingston Area for the Fall! 📚️ Reach out today & book your #ClimateSolutions presentation! ☀️ This is a house in New Brunswick with green roofs to cool the house & absorb heavy storms (pet-friendly), & it also has lots of biodiversity. Fun! 🌳

Wildfires, floods, heat domes--the world can be a scary place for youth. Change the conversation to Climate Solutions. YIF is now giving presentations at schools until Oct. 2nd, daily, in the greater Kingston region. There are a few spots left. Email us at youthimaginefuture@gmail.com. ☀️ 📚️ #YIF

Welcome back to School! We're inviting all teachers to email us for a #free presentation of inspiring #ClimateSolutions for their classes - perfect for #Geography, #Science, #EnvironmentalStudies, #English, #Art, #WorldIssues. Students may submit to our Art and #Solarpunk Story Festival! #YIF

This kind of development in #SustainableTechnology on the retail level is vital in making #SolarTechnology easier for the public to quickly and easily integrate it into their homes. #YIF #ClimateAction www.kqed.org/science/2001...

California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall | KQED

Legislation to make it easy for Californians to install plug-in solar panels is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

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@YouthImagineTheFuture is seeking reliable, hard-working people with eco-hearts & some experience to apply for a Festival Administrator & an Event Coordinator - 200 hours & 40 hours respectively. Short contracts, approx. Oct. 5-Dec. 5, 2026. Apply by Aug 27th.

@YouthImagineTheFuture is seeking reliable, hard-working people with eco-hearts & some experience to apply for Festival Administrator & an Event Coordinator - 200 hours & 40 hours respectively. Short contracts, approx. Oct. 5-Dec. 5, 2026. Apply by Aug 27th.

"A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada." #YIF #ClimateAction #Solarpunk www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The concept of the #Energyfish was born out of a desire to create a #RenewableEnergy source that operates in harmony with nature & addresses environmental concerns such as #EcologicalDisruption & #VisualPollution. www.waterpowermagazine.com/analysis/the... #YIF #Solarpunk

The Energyfish: pioneering sustainable micro-hydropower technology - International Water Power

Natalie Rojko from Energyminer gives more details about this new micro hydropower technology - the Energyfish

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Teachers, we hope you are able to take a breath this summer and rejuvenate. Notice those fires across Canada? When you start planning fall classes, consider a presentation on climate solutions as a gift to your students from Youth Imagine the Future. youthimaginethefuture.com/for-teachers #YIF

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Art & Stories: see Previous Festivals IG: @youthimaginethefuture FB: Youth ImagineFuture @youthimaginefuture.bsky.social

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www.streetfilms.org/featured/202... - This shows we can redesign our cities in Canada for less fossil fuel traffic but more bikes & pedestrians! Bioswales and “sponge parks” to turn old parking lots into lovely parks that cool the city & absorb severe storms to prevent flooding. #YIF #Solarpunk

Montreal Makes People Feel Welcome With Safe Streets, Happy Places & Green Spaces — Streetfilms

My standing piece of advice for those who live in North America who pine to see the best-practice streets of dozens of places in Europe or want to educate colleague/friends what’s possible: just go…

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Check out this interesting article in the Guardian about "How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets" - interesting insight on how a historical European city is still changing for the health of our planet. #YIF #ClimateChange #Paris #Biking www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

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Want to keep up with all things #YIF? Subscribe to our newsletter to learn about our monthly activities, future projects and initiatives! Read our June Newsletter at: youth-imagine-the-future.beehiiv.com/p/youth-imag... #YouthImagineTheFuture #Newsletter #YGK #ClimateAction #Solarpunk

📚🎨 Youth Imagine the Future has been featured in Canadian School Libraries! In an article by Shelley Woods, Education Librarian and Acting Head of the Queen's University Faculty of Education Library, YIF's library displays are highlighted: journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/youth-imagin... #YIF

📚🎨 A splash of colour has arrived in downtown Kingston! We're thrilled to see artwork from @YouthImagineTheFuture students on display in the front window of one of Kingston's beloved independent bookstores, #NovelIdeaBookstore! These incredible pieces showcase the creativity, imagination, & hope!

Thank you, Miigwech, to Adam Walker of the Community Foundation of Kingston & Area (@CFKingstonArea) for a grant to run the 2026 YIF Festival! This grant will enable YIF to continue providing a voice & platform for #KingstonArea youth artists to showcase their art & beliefs #thanksCFKA

🌎🌱 A hopeful future is one where both people and the planet thrive. At @YouthImaginetheFuture, we believe that building a sustainable future means embracing diverse voices, perspectives, cultures, and experiences. Artwork: Seedling of Hope by Rawan Khoshafa (Kingston Secondary School). 🌱🎨

As the 2025 school year winds down, we are looking ahead to classroom presentations for next year. If you’re a teacher or school interested in booking a presentation for the 2026 school year, we’d love to hear from you. Artwork: “Harmony” by Ciara Foster

🌎✨ What does a hopeful future look like through the eyes of youth? In 2025, Youth Imagine the Future connected with thousands of young people across our region through climate solution presentations, art, storytelling, and community action. Image credit: “Perfect Future” by Hannah Lea Scott.

We are wrapping up our coverage of the latest Youth Imagine the Future Festival with a shout-out to this year’s winner of the Teacher Excellence Award! Our 2025 awardees are Tiffany Cubitt (LaSalle; pictured) and Meaghan Gauthier-Marois (L’Acadie; not pictured). Thank you for your support of YIF! 💛

Last but not least, join us in celebrating our young writers who won Honorable Mention awards in the YIF Short Story category! Julia Stroud (Sustainable Kingston) presented awards to Zehad Hamdan (Calvin Park) for “A Breath of Change”, Micah Koziar (LCVI) for "The Beasts"...

We loved the Short Stories submitted by our YIF Finalists! Dan Hendry (LDSB) presented finalist awards to Erin Zhu (Calvin Park) for “The Colours in Tomorrow”, and to Jessie Paul (KSS) for “Just One”.

Join us in congratulating Fares Alsalehi and Kai Knutsen (Calvin Park) for winning 4th & 5th place in the Short Story category! Dan Hendry (LDSB) presented Fares with an award for “A Dream Come True”. Sonya Melim (Superintendent of Ed., ALCDSM) presented Kai with an award for “The Last Wild Place”.

We are honoring our 2nd & 3rd place Short Story winners! Scott Forster (CFKA) presented the 2nd place award to Divyesh Jeyaprathesha (Ernestown) for “The City that Breathes”. Dean Amy Burns (Queen’s Fac. of Education) gave the 3rd place award to Isla Oatway (Loughborough) for “It Left us the Light”.

The Kingston Frontenac Public Library's Central Branch is currently hosting a display of Youth Imagine the Future artwork. If you missed it during the Festival, this is your chance to discover local youth artists' vision for a more sustainable, eco-friendly, and just future! 🤩

Congratulations to Ipsa Khanal (Calvin Park), who won the #YIF Festival’s First Place award in the Short Story category! Jon Dessau (KCCU) presented the award. Flip to the next slide to see an excerpt from the winning story, “A Painted Promise”! 🎨

Join us in congratulating our Honorable Mentions in the Senior Art category in the 2025 #YIF Festival! Jenn Anderson (LDSB) presented awards to Nora Wagar (Sydenham High School) for “Sydenham HS in the Future”, and to Sophia Auriemma (Bayridge SS) for “The Environments of Fashion”.

Shout out to our Senior Art category Finalists at the 2025 YIF Festival! Adam Turcotte (Councillor for @southfrontenactwp.bsky.social) presented awards to Rawan Khoshafa (Kingston Secondary School) for “Seedling of Hope”, to Alexia Hotner (Sydenham High School) for “Designing for Tomorrow”...

Our Senior Art awardees blew us away at this year’s #YIF Festival! The 4th place award went to Isabella Laing (LCVI) for “Snapshot of the Future”. Sonya Melim (Superintendent of Education, ALCDSB) presented the 5th place award to Lana Wilson (Holy Cross) for “SPH[Y]RnA”. Congratulations! 📷🦈

A round of applause for our 2nd & 3rd place Senior Art winners at this year’s YIF Festival! The 2nd place award went to Caitlin Ball (Sydenham HS) for “Postscript”. Dean Amy Burns (Queen’s Faculty of Education) presented the 3rd place award to Charlie McGowan (LVCI & KSS) for “Hope”. 🌿🕊️

This week, we start highlighting #YIF awardees in the Senior Art category! Join us in congratulating our first-place winner, Ellora Outwater (Sydenham High School). Jon Dessau from the Kingston Community Credit Union presented Ellora with an award for “A Harmonious Existence”. Bravo! ✨🍓