Spongebob Goes Green: How To Help The Environment

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Introduction and Background: One of the most important aspect of youth studies is to find ways not only to educate young people about their career and to “keep them off the streets” but the field also helps to educate them about their environment and surroundings. There are after school programs that educate young people in several ways about the environment and have them engage in wanting to learn more, as well as have some sort of awareness about their environment. Some programs are about fun and educational and solar renewable energy, a cleaner and greener environment so forth. There also program that is for young people that are willing to fight for the right and bettering the environment. Youth does play a significant role in the environment …show more content…

Other medium that can contribute to the future of the environment would be the cartoons and the children's television channels with the message behind the awareness of the environment. For instance, within the children's section of the Barnes and Noble offers books from Nickelodeon’s Big Green Help Series, with the headlines like SpongeBob Goes Green! and Save the Tree! And the Two-year-old-and-up set, there’s Choose to Reuse! (The Future of Climate Change: How to Teach Children to Conserve, 2009). Its intriguing to see that even the media is taking up the responsibility to help the environment in ways that their message reach out to persons no matter their age, but especially for the younger generation. From the messages they can take it into consideration the message might reach them right away, but one way or another they will for sure receive the message. To have an overall understanding of this collaboration with Youth Studies and with Renewable Energy and Environment they all came in hand together. Though Youth Studies might seem to be a hard way to connect to the environment, but one thing to remember is that no matter what we as a society is doing, we are always contributing to the environment no matter if it’s for a good cause or

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