Final Day of Classes and Only Two Days Until We Depart!

We wrapped up our pre-travel week and we're better for it, albeit exhausted and full. For five days we learned so much about so many challenging realities related to climate change, yet we also saw, again and again, inspiring examples of regular people doing awesome work to prevent and prepare for rising tempertatures and rising tides, and the consequences that will follow. We learned about teenagers in Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the U.S., to only name a few, who are devoting themselves to this urgent cause and are not only demanding change via protest, but being a part of the solution not only through personal behavior change, but more importantly, through organizing community-wide change, and in some cases global movements!. We learned that all of us can be and need to be "accelerators" in this important and urgent process of changing how we think about, invest in, develop policy around, and use energy, transportation, buildings, and agriculture.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities