January 17, 2017
After Donald Trump's election, many students in the Seattle area walked out of classes in protest. But at a small public school in Redmond, they took a different approach. Students there have vowed instead to counter Trump’s threat to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. They say even if the U.S. doesn’t meet the carbon reduction goals in the accord, they will.
The idea for their Schools Under 2C° organization came from their environmental science and engineering teacher, Mike Town, also the volunteer chair of the new State Forests Committee of the Washington State Sierra Club.
(Photo of Mike Town by Parker Miles Blohm, KNKX)