Members of College of the Atlantic’s student delegation to the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change return energized to act at home.
Prominent environmental advocate His Excellency Anote Tong, who led the Micronesian island nation from 2003 to 2016, is the keynote speaker at College of the Atlantic’s 45th graduation.
THE QUESTION: If people struggling under great odds and danger could persist, what’s my excuse?
THE RESPONSE: A graphic biography of Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian climate justice activist.
As deputy chief of interpretation at Acadia National Park, Christie Denzel Anastasia ’92, seeks to ensure that every visitor intersecting with the park has the best experience possible. What this means is that Christie spends a lot of time behind a computer so that the seventy-odd rangers, volunteers, interns, and partnership program staff she oversees can be outside, doing their jobs.
Representatives of College of the Atlantic and numerous other international climate change groups gather with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York to mark the entry-into-force of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change.
Sierra, the national magazine of the Sierra Club, names College of the Atlantic the greenest college in the country in its 10th annual “Cool Schools” ranking. The school jumps 15 spots from last year’s ranking of 16 to occupy the #1 slot “by a landslide.”