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The Environmental Action Club(EAC) at Skidmore College has always been a hotbed for activism and change at the school, a gathering place for the most committed students. For the past 2 years students involved with the Environmental Action Club have tried to shrink Skidmore’s carbon footprint. Several efforts were made to get the President of the College to sign a Campus Climate Commitment that would do just that, reduce the schools carbon footprint.

In the struggle to reverse catastrophic global climate change it is the most vulnerable people who often don’t have a voice in the fight. I’ve been in Sri Lanka studying abroad for 3 months and this is my attempt to speak for them. While not even intending to analyze the shock a warming world would have on this beautiful, crowded island, the future and present effects are so apparently disastrous that I can’t go anywhere without thinking of how much trouble this island, the people and environment, face.

As the semester winds down and students are starting to dream about what amazing things lie in store for them when the long awaited-most mystical season of summer finally arrives I hope that Mountain Justice Summer Camp is your first item of (non)business. I know I'll be there.

Register Today http://www.mountainjustice.org/

LETS GO Chicago members have been quite busy throughout the late winter and early spring and we are excited to tell you why. As Chicago thaws, the Rogers Park solutionaries are revving up for their fourth season of gardening, community building, youth empowerment and more. We have been preparing for our spring garden since early March by planting seedlings in our new greenhouse in West Rogers Park. Through a new partnership with the Westwood Manor Nursing Home, we are breathing life into the 18 by 32 foot space with the help of nursing home residents. The greenhouse is allowing us to select a wider range of crop varieties while providing a valuable learning experience for all involved.

The greenhouse at Westwood Manor