Junior Walk – Resistance and Youth Leadership in Coal Country

Bioneers Youth Video

Junior Walk, a Brower Youth Award Winner, discusses his involvement with the Appalachian resistance to the coal mining industry and mountain-top removal. This speech was given at the 2015 Bioneers Annual Conference.

Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

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