Despite the effect of the tropical storm on the Northeast, UNH students and seacoast community members joined together at the University of New Hampshire to listen to local activists and professors speak up and take climate action. Student organizations and candidate groups shared information about their local and political environmental action. Attendees took part in a community collage and healing blanket making. Organizer, Erin Thesing began the event, introducing the university's president, Mark Huddleston, who welcomed the crowd, congratulating the university’s leadership in sustainability! Natural Resources professor Bill Mautz sought to express both his excitement with student involvement, and the need to recognize the climate crisis as the issue of our time. Local climate activist, Tobias Marquette exhibited the same sentiment, encouraging activists to take more action than they already were, reminding them that this would be the generation's issue to be fighting "for the rest of [their] lives." Sam Witherbee, from the Carbon Coalition, stressed the importance of the nonpartisan attitude events like this can foster. Inspired by the speakers, the crowd stepped it up together for the photo petition.