Let Us
Lettuce was started as a Girl Scout Silver Award project by a teen who wanted a place to speak up. Lettuce was started for everyone who wants to have a chance to speak up. Lettuce focuses on small ideas that create big solutions. Climate change is an issue that needs many small ideas, and we believe that some of the best ideas come from the unheard, from the youth, and from people without bias who know what simple solutions are.
We strive to help teens and kids connect with people who can help them bring their ideas to life and turn small ideas into big solutions. We have a focus on climate change and other similar environmental issues, but we aren’t limited to showcasing only those ideas.
We also hope to be a place where people feel like their ideas are valid and can be used productively. This is also intended to be a space where everyone’s ideas can be shared and developed in a supportive environment.
Every idea is important, and that’s what Lettuce is: it’s a place where every small idea is as important as the big ones, where every idea is given the same value and opportunities. Every idea will be showcased the same because that’s how change happens, it happens through many ideas combining and changing to create a better idea than ever before.
Why is this important?
We provide a space where new and innovative ideas can be shown and worked on, we also try to inspire new solutions for general issues. There is a serious lack of available resources for kids, teens, and young adults to share their ideas in a supportive environment.
With the current state of the environment and the world as a whole it’s important to have all ideas shared, without them innovative solutions are few and far between, but with collaboration and inspiration from many sources we create a new world, a better world, with more solutions for all issues, including environmental ones.
This site is supposed to be a place for everyone. No matter how small your idea may be it’s absolutely welcome here, because improvement starts with a small idea that snowballs into something bigger. Something that actually presents solutions on a bigger scale. Something that lets you improve the world around you with small actions over a long period of time, or even something that helps for a short amount of time. A solution is a combination of ideas, rather than just a single idea, that’s why this is important. This is the way to share solutions, this is how we unite to help the environment be the best it can, and the perspectives we’re seeking out let a new vision come to light, a new generation of solutions. To let us work together.