Rodrigo De La Rocha and Sebastian Ng are organizing this fundraiser to benefit Well Done Foundation Inc.

Hi, we are the Youth Climate Initiative, high school kids from North Carolina that found an easy, affordable way to have big climate impact. Our story was recently covered in the NYT.

In May of 2024, we completed our first project: Stopping the emissions from an abandoned 'Super Emitter' gas well. This stopped tens of thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions from spewing into the atmosphere and further warming the planet.

We've proven that even kids can have massive, measurable climate impact!!

It took us a while to figure it out and now that we have proven that it works, we are ready to share the news and start our next project. Please join us!!

Backstory:
Like many young people we realize that Climate Change is a huge challenge that we will have to deal with in our lifetime. So we wanted to do something about it. But, how could we? Most kids aren't old enough to drive a hybrid/electric vehicle or install solar panels on a home, even many adults can't afford these options.

There had to be a way that was affordable, accessible and more impactful than these options, and it turns out there is!

A bit of science:
Greenhouse gasses, like Carbon Dioxide and Methane, are among the main drivers of global warming. But, it turns out that Methane causes over 80 times more global warming than Carbon Dioxide does. This makes Methane an incredibly powerful source of environmental damage, and it also presents a great opportunity to address this problem.

One of Methane’s main sources are abandoned/orphaned gas wells that are strewn across the US. These wells were drilled for oil or gas many decades ago, but eventually they fell into disrepair and no one maintains them anymore.. Today, all these orphaned wells spew millions of tons of Methane gas. This not only threatens nearby land, water, humans, animals, and plants, but it also enters the atmosphere and causes a massive amount of warming for all of us.

Some of these wells are considered 'Super Emitters' because of the massive amount of Methane they spew every second (actual video below of the well we helped adopt and plug).

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https://www.gofundme.com/f/youth-climate-initiative-stop-super-emitters?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZKPWpXDLepGH1QjRLI9bS_KNuZUDAIzkjd9gGd1GWWpWOL461Xl7cXNf4_aem_AdbFkksYQDqwu7GtIWke94QUxTTohl8rs3YuXQ10Swjx7YAjes5_BCbiuiAOvgEL9p_kUW07vZnh3AtwC5ZoCUBy


From the NYT...

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