Join the Climate Action Collaborative this Saturday, January 26th for our kick-off event, Keep Winter Chill, to celebrate our current and future successes in climate action and the parts of life that make it worth sustaining. This event creatively coincides with the Winter Chill campus event at the same time and is also a response to the international day of action by Extinction Rebellion.
We will parade through town, gather for a community potluck, and celebrate with live music, art, and festivities. See more details here.
Show up to show off all the energy behind the climate action movement that will propel us onward towards bringing the university to climate neutrality by 2025 and transforming our institutions and communities for a just and sustainable future. All of this is possible with the collective power of people coming together!
Here's a schedule of events. Come to what you can! And be sure to dress warmly if you are parading.
4:00 PM - Connect & Energize - Plemmons Student Union, room 169 (parking available on campus) - distribute signs and banners
4:15 PM - Parade around Town
4:45-5:30 - Demonstrate/celebrate at 321/421/105 intersection
6:00 PM - Community Gathering and Potluck - PSU 169
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM - “Keep Winter Chill” Celebration & Festivities - PSU 169
The tone of this event is explicitly celebratory. While these times of climate crisis permit all types of emotion- outrage, despair, grief, anger, etc. - we are choosing now to come together to celebrate. We celebrate being at a university that is committed to sustainability and so surely must support our goals for climate neutrality and climate action. We celebrate the momentum around this work that will bring about transformation. We celebrate good community, connection, creativity, and all that makes us worth sustaining.
(And we ask that all signs or messaging that we present at this event align with this tone, refraining from accusatory or demeaning messages.)
Please share this widely, and we look forward to seeing everybody there. Statistics say that there only needs to be 3.5% of a population actively engaged in order to elicit system transformation? So that’s just around 800 people to transform App State. This is do-able and it's necessary. If not now, when? If not us, who?
Please reach out if you have any questions or want to get involved further by contacting climate.action.collaborative@gmail.com.
Links for more information:
news coverage in Watauga Democrat
our event Facebook page
our website
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