Honors Seminar: Climate Change
In the Spring of 2015, my freshman year, I took the honors seminar: Climate Change, think globally act locally. As an avid environmentalist, this course intrigued me as a way to connect my extracurricular activities to the classroom. In the course we first learned about climate change, the facts, and the dangers those facts pose to the world politically, economically, and socially. Then in the later half of the course we were put into groups of four where we had to find a local non-profit organization that was mitigating climate change. My group fought for Granny's Garden School and won the competition for $2,000 after presenting to a panel of judges.What I believe to be the most valuable information I learned from the class were the series of talks given by prominent Cincinnatians (to name a few: Brewster Rhoads, Roxanne Qualls, and Terry Grundy) highlighting what they and Cincinnati are doing to mitigate climate change. For example Brewster Rhoads created Green Umbrella and has local companies big and small meet monthly to discuss what they can do to promote greener policies.
This experience was meaningful because it allowed me to learn more about climate change and the environment (the political issue closest to my heart). It also allowed me to meet students from different colleges and facilitated a conversation on climate change between future economists, political scientists, engineers, doctors, and journalists. Today (and in my future) I will be sure to lead not only a green life, but do what I can to promote green living and climate change mitigation locally and globally.
The presentation my group created to exemplify the actions of Granny's Garden School is linked below:
https://prezi.com/mr2wtufbcsef/copy-of-the-story-of-grannys/
This experience was meaningful because it allowed me to learn more about climate change and the environment (the political issue closest to my heart). It also allowed me to meet students from different colleges and facilitated a conversation on climate change between future economists, political scientists, engineers, doctors, and journalists. Today (and in my future) I will be sure to lead not only a green life, but do what I can to promote green living and climate change mitigation locally and globally.
The presentation my group created to exemplify the actions of Granny's Garden School is linked below:
https://prezi.com/mr2wtufbcsef/copy-of-the-story-of-grannys/