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59 YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS The GUIDE to YELLOW SPRINGS 2019 – 20 4 Private cabin secluded on 66 acres, which includes woods, miles of interconnected rolling trails and a stocked pond. 4 Accommodations for two or up to six people. 4 Open year round, just 11 miles from Yellow Springs. 8606 Selma Rd., South Charleston (937) 360-4082 www.GreenPlainsCabin.com Green Plains Cabin Bed & Breakfast WILDFLOWER S A L O N WildflowerSalonYS.com Across from US Bank at 253 Xenia Ave. Call or text Emily: 937.508.8734 Meghan: 937.673.2718 SUBMITTED PHOTO On Saturday night, Sept. 20, 2014, a group of villagers and Antioch College students took an overnight bus to New York City, where they arrived on Sunday to participate in the People’s Climate March. Among the hundreds of thousands who marched in New York City to affect public policy on climate change were, from left, Katherina Seidl, Libby Rudolf, Dan Rudolf and Alice Robrish. PHOTO BY AUDREY HACKETT About 50 Yellow Springs High School students walked out of class to join in the worldwide Climate Strike, a series of youth-led rallies in advance of the UN Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, 2019. Local students, some holding hand- made signs, marched onto the front lawn with chants of “What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now!” and “Whose future? Our future!” Organized by seniors Chanel Phillips, Romel Phillips and Evelyn Potter, pictured at the far left, the local protest will continue on upcoming Fridays after school, giving all students a chance to participate. Other students pictured include, from the fourth on the left, Sophia Gisslen, Joe Freeman, Saelah Gisslen, Greenlee Cordell, Daphne Trillana and Eliza Minde-Berman. This article was originally published in 2014. By MEGAN BACHMAN T his week in climate change news, record rains pounded the desert southwest, a new study reported that half of the birds of North America could go extinct by the end of the century and a new documentary exposed the corporate interests and citizen apathy hampering efforts to address climate change, asking: “When it comes to climate change, why do VI LLAGERS WALK FOR THE WEATHER— People’s Climate Change March YSHS walkout for climate awareness we do so little when we know so much?” Concerned Yellow Springs residents and Antioch College students are asking themselves the same question. And soon a group of them will take to the streets of New York City to demand the U.S. and world take action to forestall dangerous climate change. About 60 locals (including 30 Antioch students) will be among the several hun- dred thousand people participating in what organizers are billing as the largest climate change march in history — the People’s Climate Change March on Sept. 21. Yellow Springs is one of three Ohio locations chartering a bus to take protestors to the historic march. Locals believe that marching en masse will show world leaders that “the people are not apathetic and are beginning to push back,” according to Eric Miller, an annual fund officer at Antioch. “We want to push a legislative agenda,” Miller said. “I’m not about yelling and screaming to make myself feel good — I want tangible progress.” March organizer Eric Johnson, a local video editor, hopes to use the rally as a way to embarrass Ohio politicians who voted to gut Ohio’s renewable energy port- folio standards earlier this year, he said. “Ohio is the only state that has gone backwards in support of renewable energy, which is horrifying,” Johnson said. Johnson said the movement needs to reframe the climate change issue as a fossil fuels issue, since fossil fuels are responsible for the vast majority of the global co2 increase since the industrial revolution. “Whether it’s mountaintop removal, fracking, destroying water, streams, creat- ing earthquakes or the deepwater horizon oil spill, we just need to look at the fact that fossil fuels are destroying the envi- ronment,” Johnson said. Antioch College is part of a coalition of more than 1,000 organizations working together to put on the march.  ♦