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FXB Climate Advocate: Reflection on December 6, 2019 Youth Climate Strike

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FXB Climate Advocate: Reflection on December 6, 2019 Youth Climate Strike

By FXB USADecember 11, 2019No Comments

By: Benjamin Portnoy As I arrived on the scene, I was greeted by a crowd of angry teenagers, yelling at the top of their lungs, megaphones and signs and cameras in hand. There were media crews everywhere, you would expect a celebrity to be in our midst....

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FXB Climate Advocate: Richard Chen

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FXB Climate Advocate: Richard Chen

By FXB USANovember 25, 2019No Comments

Money, comfort, happiness, harmony, success, peace. These are all values or materials that people from the modern society value or desire. I, too, value many of these values and materials alike. When I was still a third-grade student in China, the sky...

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FXB Climate Advocate: Nicholas Von Perfall

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FXB Climate Advocate: Nicholas Von Perfall

By FXB USANovember 25, 2019No Comments

My name is Nicholas Von Perfall, and I am junior at the Grace Church School in NYC. I am happy to be a founding member of the FXB Climate Advocates- a group dedicated to continuing to educate the public and helping raise awareness of the global threat...

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FXB International joins The Lancet in calling for climate action to support children’s health

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FXB International joins The Lancet in calling for climate action to support children’s health

By FXB USANovember 20, 2019No Comments

FXB International applauds The Lancet for sounding the alarm of climate change’s impact on children’s health—threatening to undo important gains in the well-being of young people in recent decades. The organization adds an urgent call to action...

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Monday Program – Week in Review #16

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Monday Program – Week in Review #16

By FXB USAOctober 21, 2019No Comments

During the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies assured the public that patients wouldn’t become addicted to the opioid pain relievers that they were being prescribed. Before long, widespread misuse of these opioids leads to the beginning of an epidemic...

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Monday Program – Week in Review #15

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Monday Program – Week in Review #15

By FXB USAOctober 14, 2019No Comments

Recent reports published by the International Monetary Fund have stated that if the price of carbon was increased, there would most likely be a decline in global warming and overall air pollution. Although talks of taxing fossil fuel corporations have...

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Monday Program – Week in Review #14

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Monday Program – Week in Review #14

By FXB USAOctober 07, 2019No Comments

Obesity in the United States has been a known issue for many years, but as 2019 marks an all-time high in regards to obesity rates, many are asking why the problem is growing despite the common knowledge of the associated health dangers. Across the globe,...

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Monday Program – Week in Review #13

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Monday Program – Week in Review #13

By FXB USASeptember 30, 2019No Comments

A recent data report done by the Annie E. Casey Foundation has shown that in the United States, poverty has worsened in areas where it is already concentrated despite the apparent economic expansion in the last decade. The foundation’s goal is to “develop...

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Monday Program – Week in Review #12

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Monday Program – Week in Review #12

By FXB USASeptember 23, 2019No Comments

Today the UN is holding its Climate Action Summit at its headquarters in New York City. As time has gone on, increased attention has been given to the climate issues happening to our planet, and many believe that this summit will be a sizable step in...

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Monday Program – Week in Review #11

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Monday Program – Week in Review #11

By FXB USASeptember 16, 2019No Comments

News sources from all over the world constantly tell people about the worsening climate situation, explaining how detrimental it may be to our future if immediate changes aren’t made. For good reason, this is a worrying situation for many people. Luckily,...

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