About Our Task
Introductory video
Our Task is an international network of young adults aged 15-25 who, with help from adult Mentors, is developing a Youth Earth Plan for the 21st century. Click here for the latest OT Annual Report.
The Our Task members are concerned that young people everywhere will be adversely impacted by many of the decisions being made currently by their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. The Our Task members want to initiate a thoughtful, substantive intergenerational dialog on the changes they feel are needed urgently by young people everywhere.
Our Task, with input from many young people in many countries, has developed a vision of the Earth young people would like to inherit from their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. They have also been doing their homework studying twenty respected international outlook studies published by the UN agencies and World Bank and about fifty sustainable development strategies published by the world’s culture-shaping establishments—our governmental, spiritual, corporate, international, educational, media, scientific, and civic institutions. Summaries of the outlook and strategy reports are published on the OT Earth Wiki.
During school break in 2008, they wrote the first version of the Youth Earth Plan, their ideas for bringing young people, their children and Earth safely through the 21st century. We plan to have a second draft by October 2009.
People sometimes ask about our name. "Our" is everyone; all are invited and responsible. "Task" is a mutually enhancing relationship between humans and Earth. Our Task focus on the question: How are we humans to meet the legitimate needs of our growing human community without destroying the ability of Earth to support the whole community of life?
We would like to thank our supporters for all of their contributions.
