Redesigning Our Future

Ready to Go at "Redesigning Our Future" - Environmental Summit 2015 Our national Environmental Summit for high school campers is off to a hot but fun start. There are forty-seven student campers this year with the bulk from North Carolina but students from as far away as Missouri (Kristina Inman) and Pennsylvania (Margaret Bowerman). The Summit is held at the Center for the Environment at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina. The award-winning center includes a 189-acre ecological preserve with hiking trails and lots of native plants, trees, and animals as well as a pond.  Environmental Summit Campers  Enjoy Time on the Pond in the Preserve

Robin Emmons, Founder and Executive Director of  Sow Much Good  By Payton Coleman & Alia Dahlan On the first day of the National Environmental Summit 2014 , Robin Emmons spoke to around 50 excited campers on Catawba College campus.  After an introduction from President Brien Lewis and Dr. John Wear, the founder and executive director of Sow Much Good spoke about the start and success of her non-profit organization.  Her journey began when she realized that the homeless condition of her brother was detrimental to his health and well-being. After he was arrested for having a schizophrenic episode in public, Emmons gained guardianship of him and enrolled him in a mental health institute. This organization did not have enough funding to provide healthy food for its patients, which gave Emmons' brother physical health problems.  Emmons decided to quit her job in the finance industry, telling her husband that she had a plan, although she did not at...

We had a lot of time to work, think, and talk about the environment at Redesigning Our Future: Environmental Summit (for high school students). But . . . To make a difference, we must take what we learned home, and we must get others to join in our crusade to protect the earth for now and forever. Many of our campers made public pledges. You can too. Just add a comment, and tell us what you will do to take care of and save our planet.