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Sitting on an airplane as she was flying across the United States， Dr. Jane Goodall said she noticed a bleary-eyed woman sitting next to her. She asked the woman why she was so tired， and the woman said she was absolutely exhausted because she' d been up at two in the morning trying to turn off the water. Her young daughter was in an environmental group at school and her daughter' s passion had turned to making sure her family was eco-friendly. They were staying at the woman' s brother' s house the night before her trip， and in the middle of the night her daughter woke up to the sound of a dripping faucet. The daughter asked for help turning it off as the faucet handle was broken. The only way to stop the leak was to dig to the pipe in the front lawn to find the main valve to turn the water off， and her daughter wouldn' t go to sleep until the leak stopped. So at two in the morning everyone in the family was out in the yard helping to dig to turn off the water.
And that， Dr. Goodall related， is the power of youth. When children make a change in their lives， families are dragged along to become environmentally friendly too.
It' s not just families that are changed by youth either. Dr. Goodall tells another story about a young boy in New York who went to one of her talks and learned about the facial expressions of chimpanzees. When he saw a picture of a chimpanzee on a box of cereal and it looked like the chimpanzee was grinning，the boy realized from what he' d learned at Dr. Goodall' s talk that the chimpanzee' s look was actually one of fear. The boy wrote to the cereal-maker asking to take the chimpanzee' s picture off the box. Along with receiving a letter back from the company， he saw the picture of the chimpanzee disappear from the box within just a few months.I took action， the boy now relates，and the company changed. However it happened that the picture changed， the boy and his family believe it was his doing.