On April 16, 2025, at 4:00, ISU students, faculty, and staff, and members of the wider Terre Haute community will meet at the Vigo County Public Library for a march to the Vigo County Court House and Terre Haute City Hall to celebrate Earth Day and remind the Wabash Valley that the climate crisis is still a crisis. This is the 5th Annual EARTHlings’ Earth Day Climate March, an event sponsored by the local youth group, Environmental Activists for a Resilient Terre Haute. Originally founded in fall 2020 by Vigo County School Corporation students from area elementary, middle, and high schools, the group has been enormously successful in drawing attention to the climate crisis, including by sponsoring Terre Haute’s first Earth Day climate march in April 2021. The EARTHlings’ efforts also led to the passage of Terre Haute’s municipal Climate Change Resolution, approved by the City Council in August 2021. With this resolution Terre Haute became one of the handful of Indiana cities to publicly respond to the climate crisis. Among other things, the resolution committed the city to the creation of a Sustainability Commission, which published in late 2024, “Climate Ready Terre Haute,” a report based on significant public feedback that lays out our community’s vulnerability to climate change along with a wide array of mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency strategies.
All members of the Indiana State University community are invited to continue the Indiana State’s Earth Day celebrations with the march leaving at 4:15 pm from the Vigo County Public Library. After all, each of us is an Earthling! The festive walk will arrive at the Vigo County Courthouse at 4:40 pm, where a brief rally will feature speakers including Mayor Brandon Sakbun, ISU students, and youth members of EARTHlings. Please contact Dr. Brendan Corcoran with any questions about the event: brendan.corcoran@indstate.edu.