Articles About Redesigning Our Future

11/12/11 by Kathy Chaffin

Summit Participant: “My generation must fix the problems of the world”

Claudia Meyer left the Redesigning Our Future National Environmental Summit for High School Students this summer with a sense of urgency about the planet that she didn't have before.

09/29/11 by Kathy Chaffin

Mark Seifel: ‘Center Opens our Eyes to How We Impact Environment’

It started with a vision to redesign our future. Dr. John Wear, executive director of the Center for the Environment, wanted to hold an environmental summit introducing high school students from all over the nation to new ways of thinking that would help them address environmental issues with innovative solutions.

09/29/11 by Kathy Chaffin

Deb Stephens: Volunteer Extraordinaire

Debbie Stephens, who goes by "Deb," has had a lifelong love for the environment -- a passion passed down early by her parents. Her mother, a lover of birds, read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – a bestseller exposing the detrimental effects of pesticides, and widely credited as launching the environmental movement – and talked to her about it when she was growing up. "And my dad was a farmer who saw farming as a way of living on the earth and tried to avoid the use of pesticides and herbicides when most of the neighbors were using them," she says.

07/31/11 by Kathy Chaffin

National Environmental Summit Students at Catawba Learn about Whole System Thinking

SALISBURY – High school students attending the "Redesigning Our Future" National Environmental Summit at the Center for the Environment on the Catawba College campus had the opportunity to learn from representatives of one of the country's leading authorities on energy solutions.

07/31/11 by Kathy Chaffin

National Environmental Summit Students Approach Environment through Other Fields of Interest

SALISBURY, N.C. – Kenneth Dunn of Durham didn't realize the extent of the world's environmental problems before participating in the "Redesigning Our Future" National Environmental Summit for High School Students. Sponsored by the Center for the Environment at Catawba College in partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, it was held July 20-24 on the Catawba campus.

07/31/11 by Kathy Chaffin

Hiking at Night on the Preserve; Observing Saturn and its Rings

Even high school students eager to take on the world's environmental problems admitted to being scared when it came to the night hikes along the pristine preserve behind the Center for the Environment on the Catawba College campus.

07/31/11 by Kathy Chaffin

Sponsors Make National Environmental Summit Possible; Help Students Make a Difference

A couple of years ago, Dr. John Wear, executive director of the Center for the Environment at Catawba College, said he received a phone call from Robert Pruehsner of Salisbury.

07/25/11 by Kathy Chaffin

Speaker at Catawba Tells Students about Idea that Changed Him from Ordinary Man to CNN Hero

SALISBURY -- It was in December of 2003 when Doc Hendley -- named one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2009 -- heard the phrase, "Wine to Water," repeating itself over and over in his head.

07/08/11 by Guest Writer

Q&A with Doc Hendley: CNN Hero Provides Clean Drinking Water for Third World Countries

Doc Hendley, one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2009, will speak at the National Environmental Summit for High School Students July 20 at Catawba College. Hendley, 32, is the founder of an organization that has provided clean water to more than 50,000 people in 11 Third World countries since 2004. The five-day summit, “Redesigning Our Future,” will bring students from across the country to the Catawba campus for a multi-disciplinary program that will help the participants use their talents to help create innovative solutions to environmental challenges.

07/05/11 by Kathy Chaffin

Work with National Environmental Summit Gives Catawba Student Opportunity to Help Create a Better World

For Catawba student Sarah Moore, helping with the National Environmental Summit for High School Students at the Center for the Environment at Catawba College gives her experience planning a large event and the opportunity to ultimately help create a better world.