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Thursday, January 24th 2008
Get Outside Week
Middlebury
Posted By: Bonnie Frye Hemphill in Climate Action
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Students are waking up in the Tent City on the quad. Professors are leading ecology hikes at the Otter Creek Gorge. Community members are sharing their work with the Middlebury Area Global Warming Action Group (MAGWAC) & the Addison County Re-Localization Network (ACoRN). Folks are lining up to hear panels on climate-change policy "Beyond the Polar Bear." And we're playing flashlight tag under the full moon.
It's Get Outside Week here at Middlebury College, the annual competition for hours logged outdoors. But beyond the fun and shenanegans of campfires and hikes in celebration on winter, Get Outside Week carries the deeper, and two-fold, message of the climate movement. First off, it's about enjoying winter while we have it, and creating a space to grieve for the impending loss of that way of life. But Get Outside Week is also a forum for hope, a time when folks from all walks of campus and town life gather to synergize ideas on climate-change mitigation.
It's Get Outside Week here at Middlebury College, the annual competition for hours logged outdoors. But beyond the fun and shenanegans of campfires and hikes in celebration on winter, Get Outside Week carries the deeper, and two-fold, message of the climate movement. First off, it's about enjoying winter while we have it, and creating a space to grieve for the impending loss of that way of life. But Get Outside Week is also a forum for hope, a time when folks from all walks of campus and town life gather to synergize ideas on climate-change mitigation.