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.
Nature as Theatre
By Patrick Estell, land stewardship and program intern at Camp Friedenswald. When one thinks of the stage, we gravitate to the bright lights of Broadway, Loop theatres, and the West…
Birds, Bugs, and Berries
As the summer comes to a close, we pause to reflect on the stories that shaped us. The second story comes from two-year returning summer staff Patrick Estell (College of…