Monday, July 18, five future leaders in the climate change field will arrive in town via bicycle. These are the young men and women of New England Climate Summer (http://www.climatesummer.net/), a leadership program training 31 college students this summer in climate science, community organizing, messaging and media, as well as bike maintenance and safety. Teams of students from Climate Summer will visit 42 communities in five New England states, moving around solely with the power of their own legs.
The team coming to Arlington will meet with local leaders and engage our community in thinking about climate change solutions. The students record their efforts throughout the summer on video and blogs. Sponsored by the Better Future Project, Climate Summer works to help the public envision and build a better future free from the burning of fossil fuels. Carrie Watkins, a student at Brandeis University and the team leader, wanted to do something this summer about the injustice of climate change. "Climate Change is very much about people. We are extremely reliant on the stability of the natural world,” says Watkins.
While in Arlington the team will be hosted by the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, at which they will perform a community service project and speak to the congregation at Sunday services on July 24, 10am. All are welcome to attend, according to First Parish Green Sanctuary Committee member David Landskov.
