I always knew that I wanted to try and be super involved in college. In high school, I only stuck to what I was comfortable with doing; I never really joined clubs or played sports that I was had no prior experience with. So, coming into college, I wanted to challenge myself. I wanted to experience something new. This is actually why I joined the Stockton Action Volunteers for the Environment club, or S.A.V.E for short. This club is centered around helping the environment, and is actually the first and oldest environmental organization on the Pine Lands Reserve. S.A.VE has also been an advocate for environmental awareness, environmental consciousness, and environmental action.

On October 11, 2017, I attended S.A.V.E’s Climate Change Rally, which was hosted in Stockton University’s coffee house. During the start of the event, we all created posters that had to do with the environment. I painted a poster to raise awareness about sea pollution. Across my poster read, “Save The Sea.” After we created a few posters, we listened to speakers while eating free pizza. The speakers spoke of different ways to get involved in protecting the environment and how climate change needs to be an everyday topic that is talked about, we can not continue to ignore the situation.

An important part of the event was that we all grouped together with our posters and marched around campus, chanting about climate change. I believe that this event was important to inform people of climate change and how it is a problem that will not just go away by itself; it is something that we need to act fast to resolve.