Edmonds College hosts new climate change and community resilience exhibit

Published 1:30 am Friday, November 28, 2025

LYNNWOOD — Through Jan. 31, Edmonds College is hosting a traveling exhibit on climate change and community resilience. The exhibit, displayed in the college’s library, consists of posters and hands-on activities from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and artwork created by current students.

The exhibit examines climate change and its effects on a national scale, with the school adding supplemental research to connect viewers with local information. Each panel includes a QR code for visitors to scan, or you can access the resources online on the college’s website.

The college’s faculty Environmental Justice Committee initiated the effort to bring the exhibit to campus after Rachel Wade, a committee member and faculty member for the School of STEM, said she stumbled upon the exhibit last winter online and immediately believed it would be an impactful display for the college.

With funding from the college’s Kickstarter grants program and support from multiple departments and the student-led sustainability group Green Team, the school shipped the exhibit from Alaska to campus in Lynnwood and held an open house to celebrate on Nov. 21.

“We’ve been working really hard to make connections across campus,” Wade said. “What’s really exciting is how different folks are looking at making those connections.”

An art class has already added multimedia collages focusing on sustainability to the line of poster boards, and a biology faculty member plans to add life science research to complement the exhibit’s focus on physical sciences. To give the exhibit an even wider reach, the college hopes to give tours to nearby K-12 groups.

Climate change research is embedded throughout the exhibit, but the core message goes beyond data and experiments, said Denise Shafer, faculty for the School of Academic Foundations and Environmental Justice Committee member.

A large aspect of the poster that the school created points viewers toward local climate resilience work and ways for community members to get involved in an effort to inspire hope.

“That’s a big piece that we always want to bring,” Shafer said.

Abigail White, the outreach coordinator for Green Team, said the exhibit reminded her of the dedicated community surrounding her.

“The depressing climate that we’re in now, like with all the political things going on, things looking dire, knowing that there’s still people that actually really want to help save the planet, it’s nice knowing that there’s like-minded people,” she said.

To learn more about the exhibit and the library’s hours, visit https://www.edmonds.edu/campus-life/resilent-earth-reslient-communities/?utm_medium=print&utm_source=flyer_redir&utm_campaign=resilient_earth_resilient_communities.

If you are interested in coordinating a group tour for the exhibit, visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0QMLLKVhgy1q7Njn1q307TEnRBrU_JDBMmamBg5K7eBAlRg/viewform

Correction: Edmonds College is the institution’s full name.

Eliza Aronson: 425-339-3434; eliza.aronson@heraldnet.com; X: @ElizaAronson.

Eliza’s stories are supported by the Herald’s Environmental and Climate Reporting Fund.