If you know me, you know I am a junkie for three things: interacting with young people, the many aspects of sustainability, and my job. From my work in the Peace Corps in Chad working with youth on school gardens, to the other side of the world in San Francisco working with Literacy for Environmental Justice on projects including Youth Promoting Green Energy (YPG&E) and the Eco Center at Heron's Head Park, I just live to bring these things together in synergy.

That is why I am so excited about the DrupalConSF session proposal I just submitted on behalf of the youth staff at EPA.net. The three things have come together for me in CivicActions' work with EPA.net.

EPA.net is all about exposing kids from under-served communities to possible careers in technology *other than* computer repair. You heard it. These kids don't want to fix your machine. They want to be engineers, project managers, information architects, bloggers, and website designers. They are being supported by the Zero Divide Foundation to take it to the next level.

The session will be an opportunity for the youth to share their progress as they take on their first client: themselves (and their EPA Creative website). They will have spent the last several months being trained in completing the site architecture for their enterprise website, doing visual design, blog editorial management, and Drupal configuration.

Please support the youth by voting for their session on the DrupalConSF website today: Open Source Opens Doors for Youth: A Professional/Foundation/Nonprofit Collaboration Builds a Youth Enterprise.