Our Mission

The Minerva Action Group (MAG) clearly recognizes that the younger members of our society are critical for shaping realistic responses to address the potentially dire consequences of climate change. Today’s young will endure the future effects of climate change, which originate largely from the emission of “greenhouse gases,” such as carbon dioxide. Unless there are realistic and sustained commitments to reducing greenhouse gases on a worldwide basis, the youth of today will face accelerating consequences, including rising sea levels, devastating forest fires, persistent droughts, and severe storms.

The mission of the Minerva Action Group is to develop and make available to schools and other interested parties hands-on teaching exercises that explore and illustrate fundamental processes involved in, or resulting from, climate change, (for example, carbon sequestration by trees, solar cells and electric vehicles, and the presence of micro-particles in sources of drinking water) to better understand some of the key public policy issues.

"Adults keep saying ‘we owe it to young people to give them hope.’

I don’t want your hope.

I WANT YOU TO ACT.

I WANT YOU TO ACT AS IF THE HOUSE WAS ON FIRE ... BECAUSE IT IS.”

— GRETA THUNBERG, 19-year old Climate Activist

Thus, a central focus of the MAG is to assist students to become personally and directly knowledgeable about climate change issues through hands-on experiments and field exercises that yield understanding of and insights into specific technical areas, such as the storage of carbon in trees. The initial MAG exercises can easily be conducted in schools as part of science classes, or even individually in remote learning settings. Our small group is composed of creative, well-informed, and dedicated individuals with an array of backgrounds in science, engineering, public policy, and business having combined backgrounds and experience totaling over 200 years. We are completely independent of any business, government, academic, political, or other affiliation, and able to support our efforts through our own resources