robert kuttner, robert murphy, jurors and our star witness and freedomfest attendees, thank you very much, court is now adjourned. god bless america and may you always ride on let eagle of freedom, good night. >> booktv isn't miranda facebook, we want to hear from you. twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our face book page, facebook.com/booktv. chelsea clinton is next on booktv, her book "it's your world: get informed, get inspired, and get going!" talks about what she sees as the world's biggest challenges, is young people making an impact in

their own community. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, welcome to bind and noble at union square. thank you for taking time to join us celebrating the release of chelsea clinton's at 18. chelsea clinton has always expressed an interest in improving the world. 50 simple thing as to save the earth. today she served as vice chair of the clinton foundation where childhood obesity, climate change and increasing

opportunities for women and girls around a globe. chelsea's latest accomplishment is "it's your world: get informed, get inspired, and get going!" a book which explores some of the biggest challenges young people shares stories about the future generation making a difference around the world. joining her on change devastates tonight is rookie magazine founder and co editor in chief, actress and singer tavi gevinson. just last year, the most influential teens by time magazine. leaders and gentlemen, join me in welcoming chelsea clinton and tavi gevinson. [applause]

[applause] >> i. thank you all coming, this is very exciting. thank you for agreeing to do this with me this evening. >> i am honored to be here and excited to talk with you. i also have questions, high am professional. we will just get into it. >> this happens every time. i really love this book and we

were talking back there, it felt, this is the kind of thing in your first to be educated about. to actually do something about it. this is sort of a catalyst for you or one of them. and i wonder what other sorts of influences or will models or experiences where i openers for you? >> as you heard in the introduction that i write about in "it's your world: get informed, get inspired, and get going!" i read 50 simple things you to do to save the earth when i was 10 or 11 and it had a profound impact on me because it treated me seriously as someone who deserve to know what was happening with climate change and pollution and it gave me practical things i could do as a

kid in arkansas with issue is i really cared about. so i wrote "it's your world: get informed, get inspired, and get going!" in hopes of having a similar impact on one girl or boy somewhere in our country or around the world. when you asked about things that influenced me certainly my parents were major influence on me. partly because they really expected me to have an opinion and expected me to make an argument to support that opinion about whatever it was i was most passionate about most concerned about and what i wanted to do to make a difference and that was a tremendous gift they gave me that i don't think i really understood when i was growing up but i am really aware of now as of mom and how my husband mark and i think about developing the same awareness but also the same

sense of responsibility to engage in the world around us and to make a difference wherever and whenever we can. >> if an adult is not a parent or teacher or more constantly in contact with young people how could they still be supportive in that way? >> great question. we were talking about how surprised i have been by the skepticism and cynicism of adults when i was talking about this project, so dismissive, kids don't care, kids are engaged, nothing from my experience could be further from the truth. when i talk to kids they are so curious about the world around us, so attentive to what is happening, they are engaged in thinking about what is happening and helen affect them and what they can do to make a difference. when people say how can i engage kids, start by asking what they care about and they will tell you what they care about, kids

will tell you what upsets him, what inspires them. and it is our responsibility, as adults, people who have platforms to help them figure out how they can make a difference in ways that will be meaningful to them and have the type of impact they aspire to have. >> that has been my experience because it is four teenagers and i get so confused whenever i read about these concerns millennials are disaffected or don't care about things or apathetic or narcissistic because of selfys and that is just not my experience at all with the girls that i meet. >> it is not how you are leading by example and it is not only true for millennials who

volunteer at higher rates than in generation ever, but also true for kids. one of the reasons i wrote this book was to highlight the work of remarkable kids engaged in making a difference on issues they care about whether it is fighting hungry in their communities like william who is the first person i saw on social media who had taken a picture of himself, the food drive kid raising money and food for the food joel in north carolina where he is from and has literally raised tens of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of pounds of food, people who are working to bring clean water to communities on the other side of the world but feel that connection and feel like there is a fundamental vital right to water. i wrote this book not only because kids were so curious when i would talk to them about

what was happening but i wanted to share the stories of remarkable kids on the front lines making a difference. >> it reminded me when i was a kid, i am kind of a kid, i in school -- >> we talked earlier about high school as if that were in or far distant memory. >> back in my day, there were magazines for kids, elementary age kids that were really cool like nickelodeon magazine and they would have the occasional feature on something like that or in school we would sometimes learn about kids who started charities or huge projects to raise money for causes they cared about. and one thing rookie readers are always asking me, i know what i

care about but i don't really know what to do about it. i feel like there is a whole process of your beliefs are constantly changing of course but you are figuring out what you care about and what strikes a chord in you and it is really intimidating to figure out concrete ways to do it and one thing i love about the boat is there are these lists at the end of the chapters that have actual actions you don't take. >> things people can do individually, and standing up for what you think is right, some are about educating other people why you think and issue is important, some are about raising money or food, i hope the lists give a spectrum of options, can engage in whatever way feels right, and what else is important is okay if kids

care about different things. and what involves and changes. one thing, talking to kids, and feel guilty they haven't known about something before. and they want to do something about it in optimism. >> i want to ask about this part we talk about your first attempt to be vocal, talk about issues i