Davidson College Combats Climate Change With Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
![Sup (4'x9'; Acrylic paint and acrylic paint pen on canvas) by Chloe Pitkoff ’21](/sites/default/files/styles/small_16x9/public/2021-09/Sup.jpeg.jpg?itok=2IuZC0he)
Sup (4'x9'; Acrylic paint and acrylic paint pen on canvas) by Chloe Pitkoff ’21
From January through March of 2020, Pitkoff was a member of the Sustainability Co-op, a group of 10 students who live together in a house on Main Street in Davidson with a commitment to sustainable living. Pitkoff’s painting was inspired by the house’s inhabitants, who engage in a series of rituals meant to foster community, including weekly house dinners.
Hurricane Ida upended lives from Louisiana and the Gulf Coast to the northeast. Violent Ida’s high winds, tornados and merciless rains toppled houses, trees and power lines, and flooded roads, homes and the New York City subway system. The death toll grows. Meanwhile, wildfires rage in California.