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Today’s the day! We will kick off the first annual Youth Climate Summit of the Lehigh Valley at 3:30 this afternoon with a very special keynote entitled “Our Place in the Universe, Is This Our Moment?” from Maurice Henderson of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. All youth are invited to attend. Maurice is a tremendously knowledgeable and engaging speaker, and we are lucky to have him join us at the Summit!
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Image Credit: NASA
Within a generation or two, plastic has gone from a new product to a pollutant found on nearly every corner of the planet. Plastic Free July encourages us to take responsibility for the plastic we use that future generations will have to deal with by reducing our consumption of single use plastics. Check out ideas for actions you can take at www.plasticfreejuly.org, and learn how you can join citizen science efforts to track plastic polution at earthchallenge2020.earthday.org/pages/plastics
Ready for our Youth Climate Summit this week? During the summit we will be featuring artists from around the globe who are creating works of art in response to our changing environment - here’s a preview:
Locally, Lauren Rosenthal McManus’s work invites us to contemplate our relationship with the river, thinking of it as a living, breathing, natural system that functions as an interconnected whole. Pictured is “Delaware River Anatomy,” a meticulously crafted paper map displayed at our center. By purposefully leaving out boundaries, names, and manmade structures, her work “gives priority to rivers” and to the important connections that exist in the landscape.
If you are a high school student interested in art and artists who work to educate, innovate, and express issues of climate change in a hope to inspire others, join us at our Youth Climate Summit this Wednesday and Thursday!
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3, 2, 1, blast off! Join Jeff as he launches model rockets and discusses how rockets work, focused on the Saturn V rocket that got man to the moon.
At-Home Paper Straw Rockets: tinyurl.com/strawpaperrocketactivity
Join us at 7pm to talk about Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior! In this novel, "as environmental, economic, and political issues converge, the residents of Feathertown, Tennessee, are forced to come to terms with their changing place in the larger world."
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You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (872) 240-3311
Access Code: 697-253-933