Yesterday we participated in a People’s climate “sister march” in Santa Elena. It was small compared with the march in Washington D.C., with about 100 people in attendance, but it was impressive that we mobilized a group all the way up here in the cloud forest to march in solidarity with others all over the world.

I played a small part in helping to organize the march, coordinating the donation of native trees from local reforestation nurseries, which were given away to people living, walking and driving along the route of our march. All 120 trees were carried on an electric golf-cart to keep the march free of fossil fuel vehicles. People were really excited to take trees home and plant them on their own land! It felt good to get engaged with local climate change advocacy efforts and play a role in getting trees to people that may not have otherwise had the opportunity to plant trees on their land.