ALL TURTLES ON THE LOG And the persuasive voices that will keep them there

Darci Webber '20

All On The Log

And the persuasive voices that will keep them there

By Rachel Heston-Davis

“Bring all turtles onto the log!”

At first, the speaker’s charge to attendees at the 2020 Sustainability Summit at Merry Lea amused Darci Webber ’20, an environmental biology major at GU. Then it resonated with her. Environmental scientists can’t achieve sustainability alone; it takes a whole society, “all turtles,” to create change. Educating the public will eventually fall to up-and-coming environmental scientists like Darci.

But unlike reptiles, human beings possess different personalities and experiences. Getting “all humans” onto the log of sustainability requires advocates to connect with people from different disciplines and points of view. Darci and the classmates she attended the conference with, Sandrine Umuhoza ’20 and Gabe Carter ’22, must prepare for this reality.