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Xiuhtezcatl successfully campaigns with Earth Guardians to ban chemical pesticides in Boulder's public parks and schools.
Xiuhtezcatl begins to spend afterschool and weekends speaking out about the harmful effects of fossil fuel infrastructure, like coal-fired plants in Boulder. He organizes a climate march in Denver, helping to recruit over 20,000 people.
Xiuhtezcatl helps launch a campaign to advocate against the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Boulder county-owned land and starts to raise awareness of the dangers of fracking in Colorado.
Xiuhtezcatl is named Youth Director of Earth Guardians and travels to Brazil to serve as the youngest speaker at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Río.
He also joins NASA scientist James Hansen and journalist Bill McKibben in Washington, DC, to push President Obama to adopt a Climate Recovery Plan.
Xiuhtezcatl becomes the target of a right-wing smear campaign after giving presentations at local middle schools about the impacts of fracking. That same year, he stages his first nonviolent direct action, disrupting a Boulder County Commissioner meeting to protest the continued use of harmful pesticides in the city's public parks and schools.