Will Steger comes to UMD

Meet Will Steger and other climate movement leaders this Wednesday at UMD!
This free event will feature famed polar explorer Will Steger, who will highlight the youth climate movement and bring evidence and eyewitness accounts of climate change from polar expeditions. This Duluth venue will be Will's last stop on his Midwest 'Longest Summer Tour'. Also featured will be Duluth City Council President Roger Reinert, student leaders, UMD's new Sustainability Coordinator Mindy Granley, and Commissioner Moore of the MN Pollution Control Agency.

Who: Will Steger, a polar explorer for more than 45 years who is best known for crossing Antarctica and reaching the North Pole via dogsled, and is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from National Geographic and The Explorer’s Club.

Why: The Longest Summer Tour highlights and elevates the great resources and efforts underway throughout the upper Midwest to slow climate change and transition to a new clean energy economy. The Tour offers a cross-generational perspective of the strategies and policies already in place at regional, state, and local levels to to support this transition to a more sustainable future.

When: Wednesday, October 22 4:30pm-6:30pm

Where: University of Minnesota at Duluth: Room Chem. 200

Contact: Leah Nelson, University of Minnesota - Duluth, Office of Civic Engagement at 218.726.8482