About Erin
Erin Schrode is a young ecoRenaissance woman. As the “face of the new green generation,” the co-founder of Teens Turning Green promotes global sustainability, youth leadership, environmental education, and conscious lifestyle choices. After working in disaster response in Haiti, she founded and launched The Schoolbag, a youth education project to provide tools for students, as well as initiate active citizenry and environmental stewardship. Erin has been featured in and tapped as an expert for the NY Times, Vanity Fair, SF Chronicle, NY Post, Seventeen Magazine, Teen Vogue, National Geographic, ABC, NBC, BBC, CNN, FOX, MTV, PBS, E!, AOL, and other multimedia outlets. She hosts digital programs, leads events, and writes for The Huffington Post, her own ecoRenaissance blog, Twitter, and others. An award-winning ecopreneur, Erin is US Ambassador to One Young World, spokeswoman for top organic and recycled brands, and as The White House said, “a dynamic, passionate and ambitious young woman committed to creating big change everywhere she goes.”
I am a huge proponent of organics! For as long as I can remember, organic food has been a staple of my life, and a cause I believe in and fight for passionately. Certified organic agriculture has an enormous positive impact on personal and public health, local communities, farm workers and their families (who bear the brunt of […]
This week’s blog post is from Erin Schrode, one of our dynamic advisory board members. Erin shares some information about her wonderful organization, Teens Turning Green. I believe in the power of education above all else. I endeavor to be a catalyst for critical thought. I see public and environmental health as paramount. […]