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Now is the time for us to summon our can-do spirit and face this crisis, confident that we have strength and the resources to overcome another new challenge.

For those of you who have already given, your generosity is much appreciated!

Nicole Rom, Executive Director

National Geographic opens an impressive flagship store this month in London. Both the 2007 Baffin Island Expedition and the 2008 Ellesmere Island Expedition are featured throughout the store on large video walls in the Explorers Wall section of the main lobby, as well as the Explorers Zone on the lower level.

Take a video tour of the store.

Heiress To The Arctic:
Ellesmere Island Expedition team member, Sarah McNair-Landry is featured in an interview in National Geographic Traveler.

Read the interview here.

Sierra Club's, Adventure Edge Radio hosted by Jimmy Buff recently interviewed Will for their podcast.

Listen to the interview here.

Will recently submitted an op-ed piece to the Red Wing Republican Eagle titled, “Creating Green Jobs Can Boost the Economy.”

Read the full letter here.

Students on the YEA! MN (Young Environmental Activists! Minnesota) steering committee hosted a fabulous anniversary party at Como High School in St Paul, Saturday December 13th, with over 25 students present from eight Twin Cities high schools. The event featured speaker Karen Monahan from Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota (EJAM), who gave a presentation on the growing green jobs movement and encouraged students to reach out to disadvantaged communities and engage more students of color. The event ended on a high note with a great deal of pride in what YEA! MN has accomplished over the course of the year. Visit YEA! MN on facebook, YouTube and at www.yeamn.org.

WSF hosts Midwest Students at REAMP Annual Meeting

Will Steger Foundation Education Program Manager, Abby Fenton, has been hard at work supporting the development of a Midwest youth climate coalition. This December, in partnership with the Sierra Student Coalition, WSF helped host 15 college students who are active across the Midwest join the RE-AMP Annual Meeting (www.reamp.org) in Ames, IA, December 9-10.  The meeting provided an opportunity for young climate leaders to bridge generations and build valuable partnerships with the network of non-profit organizations and foundations that RE-AMP supports.  It also provided an opportunity for further community building within the coalition.  Represented in the coalition are students from six Midwestern states, and staff from the Sierra Student Coalition, Global Exchange, the Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition, and the Student Environmental Action Coalition.

Tell President-elect Obama to make clean energy a top priority by signing the Repower, Refuel, Rebuild America pledge:

With a new president on the horizon, we have a renewed opportunity to take our country's energy economy in a bold new direction that will confront the climate challenge with the clean energy technologies and jobs that will also protect and restore the natural world we leave to our children.

Please sign the petition to President-elect Obama, urging him to take the decisive action needed during his first 100 days in office to usher in America's clean energy economy at NRDC’s action center.

Will Steger Foundation Strategic Planning in Ely, MN board members and staff.