A collaboration between Kneyzus Energy and EcoVybz Environmental Creatives — a two-day, hands-on, climate-themed workshop for 30 young people (ages 16–20) in Trinidad and Tobago, and soon across the wider Caribbean.
Overall aim: to empower young people to become ocean stewards and climate leaders by connecting them directly to the coast, building practical skills, and supporting them to design and lead innovative solutions.
Caribbean youth grow up surrounded by climate disruption — sargassum on the shoreline, rising bills, reefs bleaching in real time — but most never receive the language, frameworks, or peer network to engage with it as anything other than background noise. GGI is the entry point: a structured program that turns "the world is on fire" into "here's a specific thing I can do this week."
It's intentionally upstream of everything else Kneyzus does. The participants who move through GGI are the ones who later show up at Tides of Innovation workshops, the ones who'll work the wet lab at the Eco-Residence, the ones a future Caribbean climate sector will actually need.
Demystifying the science. What sargassum is, why it's blooming, what 1.5°C means in the Caribbean specifically, what the difference between mitigation and adaptation actually looks like.
Hands-on engagement with the systems that already work — mangroves, coral, seagrass, dune restoration. Beach cleanups doubled as observation labs for ecological impact.
Moving from "this is a problem" to "here's a thing I'd build." Structured idea-to-prototype sessions designed for teenagers who've never been asked to engineer anything.
One-to-one and small-group pairings with working Caribbean climate professionals — the bridge between "I'm interested" and "I have a path." The piece most youth programs skip.
Beach cleanups as classrooms. Cleanups aren't just civic feel-good moments — every session pairs collection with environmental impact assessment, sample documentation, and a debrief that draws the line between what they picked up and what's eating the reef offshore.
Workshops with real stakes. Each cohort produces something — a poster, a prototype, a proposal — that's reviewed by a working climate practitioner. Not graded. Reviewed. The shift in posture matters.
Pipeline into the rest of Kneyzus. Top participants move directly into the Tides of Innovation cohort, the Altus Polymers research strand, or the Eco-Residence visiting researcher track. GGI graduates aren't an audience — they're future colleagues.
GGI is structured to scale across islands rather than deepen in one place. The 2026 expansion brings the four-pillar curriculum to additional Caribbean territories through partnerships with secondary schools and community organizations — keeping the same pipeline-into-Kneyzus design so participants in every territory have a real path to keep going.