Students, educators and Mass Audubon staff hold their Youth Climate Summit online next week. The event is open to Island students in 5th-12th grade.
Martha's Vineyard students, educators and Mass Audubon staff hold their Youth Climate Summit online next Wednesday and Thursday. The student-organized event, open to Islanders in fifth grade through high school, is one in a series taking place at Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries across Massachusetts, according to an announcement from Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown.
"To me, discussing climate change is no longer about raising awareness, it’s about figuring out ways to take action," Martha's Vineyard Regional High School senior Owen Favreau, a member of the climate leadership team, said in a statement. "I am participating in these climate summits to work towards real solutions regarding climate change."
The first day of the virtual summit, May 27, is scheduled to include a keynote address from Tatiana Schlossberg, author of Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, as well as breakout sessions on transportation, food, lifestyle, and other climate topics of the students' choosing.
Students will then gather online May 28 to construct climate action plans for their own communities and beyond, according to the announcement. To learn more, visit massaudubon.org/climate.
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What a great idea to get the
Diana Conway Vineyard Haven MA and Montgomery County MDWhat a great idea to get the creative thinkers among us to address what we adults have only exacerbated!
I hope this will include consideration of the 250 tons of mixed toxic plastic waste in the school budget, the synthetic turf field. It's a toxic plastic with lead, PFAS, biocides & more, a heat island, a micro-plastic disaster, and a source of toxic-laden super-heated runoff. Synturf will also suck needed funds from (somebody's!) budget. costing well over $1M just to build (+ maintenance + shock-pad, + disposal @ yr 6-9, + replacement. Repeat @ yr. 6-9). Where will that 250 tons GO every 6-9 years? And at what cost? Please do the "Vineyard thing" and say no to this field!
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