Through this assignment you will gain familiarity with work being done by an environmental activist and consider the long-term impacts of his or her work.

Tasks:

Identify an environmental activist that is working domestically or internationally to create change.

Research your selected environmental activist.

You need to include the activist’s information, including the following.

• Picture
• Name
• Birth date (and death date, if applicable)
• Town(s)/country
• Education/employment
• Biography, which shows why he or she is considered an activist for environment (a paragraph including information on the following)
  • How did they get started?
  • What kinds of visions do they have for environmental change?
  • What motivates them to continue in the face of adversity?
  • What do they get out of doing this?
  • Critical review of activist and their activism
  • Identify a contemporary environmental movement or success related to the work of this activist.
  • What actions seem to be most effective? Why?
  • What barriers did the activist run into? Why? Any recommendations to overcome these barriers?
  • How did this activist alter the course of the environmental movement?
  • What contemporary environmental struggles continue the legacy of this activist?
  • Quotes (at least two)

Every item needs to be supported by research. Use at least two scholarly sources and provide APA citation information.

Assignment:

To share the information you find, you have to create an audio-video PowerPoint presentation. Your PowerPoint should be no more than 10 slides (one of which is a list of references in APA style) and should include APA style citations in the body of the presentation.