Q'orianka Kilcher wins Top Green Award

Eco-celebrity and beloved friend Q'orianka Kilcher is making headlines again, the positive kind.  Just a few years ago, she was singing songs on Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade. Then she was chosen to play Pocahontas in the major motion picture The New World. Yesterday it was announced that Q'orianka has won the top environmental honor for young people in North America, the Brower Youth Award from Earth Island.

Congratulations Q on your award!

Q'orianka won for her courageous work in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest exposing the deleterious impact Occidental Petroleum is having on the local people, animals, and environment.  Her steps included red carpet events to garner international media attention, documentary footage, tours of the areas (we are talking swamps of oil spills in the rainforest, not for the faint of heart), communication with oil company representatives, and inspiration to the local people. Q'orianka is like a ray of light everywhere she goes, shining hope and conviction for the planet.

The Awards Ceremony will take place on Wednesday October 24 in San Francisco at the Herbst Theatre. Q’orianka and the five other winners aged 13 to 22 will receive their awards amidst a glamorous and uplifting show featuring videos, music, an opening reception, a post party, and the words of the winners themselves.

Here's how to attend the Awards Ceremony and see these green stars in action.

Green Note: Young eco-superstar Billy Parish won this award in 2004 and has gone on to lead the Energy Action Coalition, the Campus Climate Challenge, 1,000s of screenings of An Inconvenient Truth on college campuses, and now the upcoming Power Shift conference on November 2 in Washington DC, the first national youth summit on solving the climate crisis. Young people are taking positive green action for their futures, will the nearby adults in DC follow?

Comments

[KAP]

This is so cool. So happy for Q'orianka. For about 4 years my wife and I lived on 2nd street in Santa Monica and used to see her signing and dancing on the Promenade every week.

We knew she was going to be "found" sooner rather than later. She has such a free spirit, great voice and a smile that can't be matched.

So happy that she is now being recognized for her environmental work. Way to go Q'orianka! Congrats.

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