Arrowhead High School student Allie Farris interviews Patty Dreier about her book, Empowered: One Planet at a Time. Listen here on Spotify. Allie was inspired by the content of Empowered to start the Earth UP podcast to help raise awareness about “all things Earth.” Together with other students in the school’s Earth Club, they create biweekly podcast content which is also posted on the school’s website. Teachers Jim Albers and Dennis Mechenich advise the Earth Club with about 80 members. Arrowhead Union High School is located in Hartland, Wisconsin. In the podcast, Patty “challenges today’s youth to get involved in helping to address the challenges we face.”
Arrowhead High School Earth Club Gets Empowered
Empowered: One Planet at a Time Gets Legs in Europe Today
Today, Dr. Bernd M. Schmitt (on right in photo below) delivered an autographed copy of Empowered: One Planet at a Time by Patty Dreier to the staff of the Umweltstation Wuerzburg in Wuerzburg, Germany. The Umweltstation Wuerzburg is part of a network of 60 learning stations located across Europe where many thousands of citizens of many nations come together to participate in programs that reinforce a message about sharing a single planet. This was the first day of opening after pandemic closure. The book launch which had been scheduled for June 5, 2020, at the Umweltstation Wuerzburg with the Lord Mayor of Wuerzburg, the author, and other German collaborators on the book had been cancelled due to COVID-19.
“Bernd, one of the co-authors of the Afterword of the book, gave my book legs in Europe today,” said author Patty Dreier. “Of course, the E-book is available, but this ceremonial step of hand-delivering a copy I had sent to him helps us begin to energize the movement in Europe. The time has never been greater to equip young adults to become change makers on social and environmental issues affecting their future.” See @EmpoweredOnePlanet on Facebook for the full story.
