This past week we had an exciting development at Lakeview Lodge — the installation of 46 solar panels! The panels should produce nearly 100% of the electricity needs for the lodge in the coming years. While these changes are worth celebrating, a look back at improvements to Lakeview Lodge tells a larger story of energy conservation and progress over the last 10 years.
A Climate Action Plan for Camp Friedenswald
At Camp Friedenswald, we have been working on environmental, social, and financial resilience and sustainability for a number of years. In 2023, to help focus our goals and be explicitly part of the collective effort to limit climate change, we began writing our “Camp Friedenswald Climate Action Plan”. The summary of this plan follows.
Shaped Like Earth: Clay!
With our theme, “Shaped Like Earth”, incorporating work with clay seemed almost essential for the summer – and we were excited to use clay harvested from the soils of Camp Friedenswald.
Benefits of Spending Time in the Great Outdoors
We live in a very small world, thanks to the internet! It was fun recently to make the acquaintance of James Black, Scottish economist and wilderness lover. Stuck inside during…