Leading By Example

Our students are fighting for environmental justice

In September, students in our Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools joined in the global #ClimateStrike. Inspired in part by the advocacy of Greta Thunberg and supported by CFS staff, groups of interested students traveled to Chapel Hill and Raleigh to join others in voicing their concerns about the future of the environment and the need for climate justice reforms.

Upper School sophomore Laura McDow was able to meet Greta Thunberg in Charlotte, and wrote an editorial of her experience and the need for urgent action for the Raleigh News & Observer.

The Middle School’s Eco Chicos activist club, in consultation with the staff Sustainability Committee, also drafted a proposal to School administration to declare a “climate emergency” and commit budgetary and program resources to measures to reduce our carbon emissions.