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Youth-led ⚪️ Mentorship-Driven ⚪️ Engineering Capstone Projects
An initiative by IEEE SSIT Sustainability / Intergenerational Cooperation Network
Today's youth face unprecedented climate distress, feeling overwhelmed by the scale of environmental challenges while lacking clear pathways to meaningful action. Traditional approaches are problem-focused, informing students on the litany of disasters and degradation across the world. Students come away knowing more, but have no agency to act directly on the problems, often leading them to even more anxiety and despair.
The Community Climate Clubs (CCC) initiative is fundamentally different. It focuses on systems, not problems. There are six planetary projects already underway to build the new systems of community, energy, and production that underlie a sustainable world. We invite students to join this great work through hands-on capstone projects and transform climate anxiety into climate agency.
Projects address challenges that have meaningful impact on climate change at scale.
Experienced professionals guide students through complex engineering challenges.
Projects emphasize practical, technical solutions to climate challenges.
Each project builds upon previous work, creating a growing body of climate solutions.
To change systems we must push at all levels at once. Each level is as important as the others from a choice of what to buy to the highest levels of a nation. All this work, no matter the scale is essential because we are changing systems. We must build around the interlocking World Projects:
| Reweaving The Web | Reconnecting and restoring the communities, both human and more-than-human, integrating them into a single whole. |
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| Spreading the Prosperity | Expanding the systems that bring a high quality of life to all of humanity. |
| Making the Home Place | Creating the systems and structures for safe and resilient home for all of life. |
| Completing the Circle | Closing the loop so the end of life products become the raw materials for new production. |
| Building the Energy Mesh | Building the technologies that can capture the ambient energy, and channel it to where it is needed. |
| The Drawdown | Removing the historical carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that have built up in the atmosphere. |
