Our generation isn't doing enough to help the planet — or at least we don't have a substantial outlet for global dicussion.

These are the opinions of UW senior Sean Walsh and his dad Greg, the creators of Flip the Planet, a new Internet television series.

The project's goal is to give people a place to learn about worldly topics and a space to share ideas, thoughts and information on different subjects.

According to its Web site, the project is meant to give people a place "to discuss the most crucial issues facing our generation in the 21st century and discover what we can do as individuals and collectively to make great things happen."

"This whole thing started with my dad telling me my generation wasn't doing enough to help the planet," Sean said. "I disagreed, however, my main argument being that young people today just don't have a strong outlet to share ideas and information about global issues in a way that gets their voice heard."

The Web site provides many ways for people to become involved and has many interactive attributes.

Currently it has five main video episodes, researched and written by Greg Walsh, from topics titled "Got Water?" to "Got Oil?" to "African Life."

Blogs and discussion boards on the site allow viewers to comment on episodes, the site in general or whatever they deem noteworthy.

The site features a link that helps people contact members of Congress to lobby for them to address certain issues.

Viewers can also submit their own videos into the Web site.

Submissions to the Viewer Viral Videos let people share similar events relating to episode topics or report on or review past topics.

"We will select three videos a week to feature on our Viewer Viral Video page," Greg Walsh said. "And provide the link to the videos on [our site]."

Flip the Planet was originally meant to focus on the younger population, but "the site is getting great reviews from people of all ages," Sean Walsh said.

"Some teachers at a high school in California have already said that they are going to require their students to visit the site and do assignments based on info given on the site," he said. "I think that really illustrates how a wide variety of age groups can appreciate the site."

The Web site is still in its first stage.

There's only one Viewer Viral Video being shown right now, and the Flip the Planet main blog is just starting to warm up to public discussions.

"Once enough information is shared and enough questions are asked, we can start moving forward in figuring out how to answer those questions," Sean said. "And get our planet moving in the right direction."

There are many ideas and updates planning for the site in the near future.

Some of the thoughts include having people directly post videos instead of having them screened, introducing a co-host to the newer episodes and having the videos attached to the blogger's posts.

"I don't know what kind of difference it will make, but I do know that [the] difference will be positive," said Cameron McCracken, a newer member of the project from the digital audio production program at Shoreline Community College. "We're not doing anything too complicated here, we're just getting people excited about talking about some really important stuff."

Reach reporter Jasmine Ines at news@thedaily.washington.edu.