Part of the Climate Preparedness Week Series: Erika Zekos - an Amherst-based artist/architect and UMass professor - and her family took on the challenge to live without plastic for a month, as posed by the Plastic Free July campaign. Erika will report on the successes and obstacles her family faced, and how they are moving forward to eliminate plastic in their lives. For more information on this challenge, check out www.plasticfreejuly.org. Plastic Free July is a campaign led by the Plastic Free Foundation. Each year, millions of people around the globe take the challenge and choose to refuse single-use plastics. Our vision is to see a world without plastic waste. Climate Preparedness Week is a series created by Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW). For more information and listing of other programs throughout the state, please visit www.climatecrew.org/prep_week

AT DEERFIELD TOWN HALL - NOT TILTON LIBRARY. Part of the Climate Preparedness Week Series: This group of highly motivated and concerned high school students – Sadie Ross, Isabel Marrapese, and Joe Thompson - which founded this initiative in 2017, will present how they formed as a club and what they have worked for in and outside of Frontier over the past few years. They will talk about lifestyle changes that they made, mostly pertaining to diet and going vegetarian/vegan for the environment. They are hoping it will show that if three teenagers can change their habits to benefit the environment, you can too. A variety of vegan cupcakes and recipes will be offered. Climate Preparedness Week is a series created by Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW). For more information and listing of other programs throughout the state, please visit www.climatecrew.org/prep_week