- Kat West, Sterling Planet Director of Regional Outreach

Everyone: Don’t let their quiet modesty fool you. If you’re looking for a fabulous story of climate victory, Bowdoin’s got it:

From an amazing sustainability coordinator (Keisha!) to a supportive administrator (Katie!) to a student campaign that put the pressure on at exactly the right moment, in exactly the right style, and brought home the ask in record time (mere weeks after they launched the campaign)… all while they also looked beyond campus to organize a summit unprecented in the history of state summits, helped grow and sustain a state network that includes young’uns and “grownup groups” alike, took to the streets of Montreal, and even left plenty of time for, um, “booty shaking.” These folks never lost their senses of humor. And all that in less than an academic year. While they were also going to school. And pursuing multitudinous other interests.

So if you’re lookin’ for some campaign wisdom from the self-taught, on-the-ground visionary vanguard of the student climate movement, don’t hesitate to give Katherine and Holly and the Bowdoin folk an email (excuse my taking the liberty of volunteering those services…).

Bowdoin-biased though I may be, I can guarantee you’ll end up as absolutely infatuated and inspired by them as I am.

So here’s to the Bowdoinites and likewise, their counterparts on campuses across our country. continent. and global community! Keep on shaking up the system–and speaking out about climate change ; )