Redesigning Our Future

Doc Hendley at Redesigning Our Future: Summit for High School Students 2012 Our keynote speaker at the Environmental Summit was Doc Hendley - founder of Wine to Water - a program to bring clean sustainable water to children across the globe. Be sure to check out the  Doc Hendley interview conducted by Austin Fisher immediately following the presentation.

Help Us Redesign the Future on Twitter High school students from across the nation are Redesigning the Future this summer at the National Environmental Summit. Join us on Twitter to hear about all the things we are learning this week or use #redesign2012 to tweet up with campers, counselors, staff, and faculty from July 9-14, 2012. Oh yes, I'm tweeting that for sure. We know how to use out technological gear, and we are going to use it to make a difference. You can too.

Dr. John Wear meets with counselors, staff, and faculty to prepare for Redesigning Our Future - a summer environmental summit for high school students across the United States. It's an early morning at the Center for the Environment as everyone goes over last minute details while enjoying coffee, cake, and fruit. Counselor Jenn is a recent graduate in Environmental Science. She likes the coffee cake and is looking forward to meeting the summit students. Counselor Eli is a sophomore in Environmental Science, and Counselor David is an alumnus who teaches classes at RCCC. Counselor Ka'Shara will be working with the "Environmental education through Theatre" focus group and Professor Linda Kesler will be coordinating the "What We Have Learned" festival on the final day of the summit. Staff members help get everyone outfitted in summit t-shirts.The soft gray shirts feature the "Redesigning Our Future" logo and the event spons...

Photo by Eli Wittum (auto) Summit Counselors Our Environmental Summit counselors have arrived on campus. From left to right, we have Eli, David, Lexi, Sarah, Erin, Ka'Shara, Jessica, Jennifer, and Christian.

Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, one of the partner organizations of Redesigning Our Future, proposes his plan for a sustainable energy future.

Center for the Environment - Ecological Preserve By Cierra  Hunter Come and join us on our journey as we Redesign the Future at the 2nd annual Environmental Summit for Have you ever been hiking? Have you ever noticed how beautiful it is when you find yourself in the middle of nature? Well, I have, and let me tell you it’s amazing! I love to hike with anyone I can, especially those who are close to me. When I go hiking it might be in the depths of the Colorado Mountains or here in North Carolina but, it doesn’t matter where I (or you) go, it’s the experience in nature and realizing what is here on earth in another perspective. Recently I hiked some of the Catawba College Preserve trails while attending the Summit hosted here. If you have ever visited the campus of Catawba College (Salisbury, NC)   then you know it isn’t the largest outback area ever; however, it is extremely beautiful. On this campus you can visit the Fred Stanbeck Ecologic...