Tag Archives: summer

5 Jokes: Shared Histories

Posted on August 10, 2014 by sophiesokolov

Posted on behalf of Sophie Sokolov, Social Media Coordinator for Team North Shore Team North Shore only has five jokes. That’s one of them- saying that we only have five jokes. We repeat jokes that aren’t particularly funny over and … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014, Team Massachusetts, Team North Shore | Tagged #jokes, #relationships, bonding, Climate, Climate Change, climate summer, connection, culture, efficiency, freinds, friends, fun, humor, language, laughter, Movement Building, new friends, summer, urgency | Leave a comment

Lessons from Canvassing

Posted on July 15, 2014 by sophiesokolov

Posted on behalf of Kelly Chen, Media Coordinator for the North Shore Team This summer is a summer of firsts – firsts in tabling at farmer’s markets, biking tens of miles, sleeping in churches, and now, canvassing, in the name … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014, Team Massachusetts, Team North Shore | Tagged Canvassing, Climate Change, climate summer, community, conversation, flyers, growing up, learning opportunity, marblehead, massachusetts, Movement Building, north shore, perspective, Salem, summer | Leave a comment

Lawn Games, Bees: Pain and Beauty

Posted on June 30, 2014 by sophiesokolov

by Abbie Goldberg, Video Coordinator for the North Shore Team When we arrived at the Pawtucket Congregational Church, after a long day of around 40 miles of biking, we set up a hose where we could shampoo our hair and … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014, Team North Shore | Tagged #climatesummer, Anti-Oppression, bonding, chip, community, environmental justice, friends, friendship, knife in the chest, movement, Movement Building, new friends, Oppression, play, singing, summer, wen stephensen | Leave a comment

Loons, Early Mornings and Shifting Assumptions

Posted on June 29, 2014 by sophiesokolov

by Kelly Chen, Media Coordinator for the North Shore Team I can picture how my summer would have been filled if I weren’t here at Camp Wilmot. It would most likely have been some combination of old and new habits: … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014, Team North Shore | Tagged assumptions, Camp Wilmot, changes, Climate, Climate Change, friends, habits, kelly chen, loons, new friends, north shore, perspective, summer, topics, training | Leave a comment

A Revolution We Can Dance To

Posted on July 22, 2013 by brendanrooneyyall

Written by B. Rooney Video Coordinator, Team VT/NH Last weekend, I spent 4 days volunteering at an event called “Solarfest,” America’s largest solar-powered festival. There was music, there was dancing, there were self-composting toilets. But above all, there were amazing … Continue reading →

Posted in 2013, Team Vermont/New Hampshire, Video | Tagged climate summer, July 2013, music, Solarfest, summer | Leave a comment

August 4th is Not a Test

Posted on August 1, 2012 by riconn2012

Written by Alivia Ashenfarb, New Media Coordinator, Team RICONN Something in the air has changed. And I’m not talking about the pollution. Or my team’s dirty laundry. No, I’m talking about the wave, the flow of excitement and purpose that … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012, Team RiConn | Tagged 2012, better future project, change, climate summer, movement, Movement Building, RiConn, summer, transition | Leave a comment

The Spirit of Intrepidity

Posted on July 30, 2012 by bfpaaron

Written by Becky Palermo, Media Coordinator, Team Massachusetts My generation has grown up with Google Maps and iPhones and GPS units on pretty much anything. So to get from town to town, our team has barely cracked open the program’s … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012, Team Massachusetts | Tagged biking, Climate, CO2, community garden, Grow food northampton, mountain, nature, Northampton, quabbin reservoir, scary, summer, travel | Leave a comment

A Tale of Biblical Proportions

Posted on July 26, 2012 by bfpaaron

Written by Becky Palermo, Media Coordinator, Team Massachusetts The Massachusetts team recently had our first taste of real climate change: the basement of the church we were staying at (you know, where we’re sleeping on the floor) was flooded after … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012, Team Massachusetts | Tagged 350, 350.org, change, Climate, CO2, community, farm, flood, MA, Mass, Medford, summer, Waltham | Leave a comment

Ride Hard and Earn The Downhill

Posted on July 24, 2012 by riconn2012

Written by Ana Ahmeti, Team Program Coordinator, Team RICONN Before pulling into Camp Wilmot in southern New Hampshire for Climate Summer Training 2012, I had started the process of mentally preparing myself. I was ready to dive headfirst into an … Continue reading →

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The Way of the World

Posted on July 16, 2012 by bfpaaron

Written by Andrew Nguyen, Video Coordinator, Team Massachusetts I want to write this down before I forget it. Like a baby playing at the park, refusing to go home, I want to cherish and nurture this feeling. I was sitting … Continue reading →