Climate Stewards Winter Workshop in Albany February 23 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm What do you value most about your community? How is climate change impacting what you value most? How can you join with fellow students and neighbors to implement local solutions? Join us for a special convening on local climate change impacts and solutions, featuring the stories and solutions of youth in your
Events
UMD Winter Workshop: What happens to waste?
By Laurentian staff member Sam Horner What happens to our garbage when it is thrown away? Is it really gone or is it just out of our minds for the time being? This YES! Winter Workshop took place at the University of Minnesota Duluth for the Duluth East YES! team. Every topic revolved around waste and what happens when garbage is thrown away. There were four different speakers and each gave a
How to Grow a Green Thumb
By YES! Coordinator Kory Klebe On Jan. 27th the Greenhouse Winter Workshop took place in Spicer, MN. This was a small workshop that the New London-Spicer (NLS) YES! team hosted for the Lac qui Parle Valley YES! team. The two teams both have greenhouses at their schools. The day started with harvesting lettuce greens together for their opening ice breaker. While harvesting, there where short
Teams Gather in Glencoe to Learn About Supermileage
25 students and teachers from YES! teams at Glencoe-Silver Lake High School (coached by Mike Sundblad) and Minnesota New Country School (coached by David Rice) participated in the recent Exploring the Biofuels Industry and Automotive Design Practices Winter Workshop at Glencoe-Silver Lake High School on December 4, 2015. This workshop provided a variety of energy-related experiences, allowing
Climb for a Cause
Below is an excerpt from an article that will appear in the next edition of the Warbler (the newsletter of Prairie Woods ELC) written by Steve Friedlein, Challenge Course Coordinator at PWELC. The winter of 2015-2016 marks the end of the first full season of the Prairie Woods Pinnacle (a 26.5 ft portable rock climbing wall). It has been a huge success! Thousands of climbers of all ages have had
Glencoe-Silver Lake Team Impresses at Climate Generation Convening
The Glencoe-Silver Lake YES! Team along with Coach Mike Sundblad attended Climate Generation’s West Metro Convening on November 12, 2015. As an added treat, they brought last year’s supermileage car to showcase and use as a visual educational tool for the crowd during the convening’s resource fair. Many attendees initially thought the team was in college and were impressed to learn that the