Tag: activism

WE ACT Executive Director Visits Miami

March 9, 2020

By: Alex Knutte On Thursday March 5, Miami University welcomed Peggy Shepard, the co-founder and executive director of  WE ACT for Environmental Justice, to campus. Shepard was this year’s speaker for the annual Dr. Gene and Carol Willeke Frontiers in Environmental Science Distinguished Lecture put on by Miami’s Institute for the Environment and Sustainability. Students, … More WE ACT Executive Director Visits Miami

UN Climate Report: A “Glaring- and Growing- Gap”

October 16, 2019

By: Samuel Halulko Meeting in New York just weeks ago on Sept. 23, diplomats of the United Nations Climate Change Summit discussed topics including the imminent threat presented by climate change and the emission of greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere. This conference is the sixth of its kind. The first, held in 2014, was … More UN Climate Report: A “Glaring- and Growing- Gap”