Students encourage Richmond Common Council to act now on climate issues
RICHMOND, Ind. Richmond Common Council members applauded for students supporting a climate-related resolution Monday night.
Youth Climate Action Team members, however, hope councilors provide even more affirmation by passing the six-point resolution with overall goals of reducing carbon emissions, increasing energy efficiency, boosting renewable energy use and creating a climate change resilient city. They were awesome so confident, so poised and they knew what they wanted, said Alison Zajdel, who has worked with the students. They did a great job. I m really, really proud of them.
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Earlham College students began the resolution project 18 months ago, then the younger students began in February meeting weekly with Zajdel, who is a resiliency coordinator for Earth Charter Indiana and a member of the Richmond Environmental Commission. They analyzed and refined the Earlham students work, spoke ind