It's good we have teenagers thinking about climate change and
taking steps to be more efficient and less wasteful - taking
responsibility for what they use and don't use. Their
generation, far more than that of their parents and
grandparents, is responding to this global threat with action.
The fourth annual Adirondack Youth Climate Summit had its share
of fun and games, like any gathering of teens, but the
practicality and initiative these young men and women
demonstrate is impressive, even awe-inspiring. If you haven't
read reporter Jessica Collier's articles on the two-day summit
this week, go back and do so - especially Friday's article with
the list of local school groups' projects and goals. Over the
last three years, students who attended this summit at Tupper
Lake's Wild Center museum have devised plans to make their
schools and communities more energy-efficient and resource-
aware, implemented many of those things - such as improved
recycling, composting, gardening, local food and information
campaign