On Friday September 16th, I stopped at the visitor centre in L’Anse-au-Clair, Labrador to find some information that I needed. The lady there urged me to stop at a school just own the road in Forteau Bay.

I arrived at Mountain Feild Academy, and no sooner had I parked and I was surrounded - completely.

The tallest guy around was a fellow named Andy Normore. He really wanted to sit in the car…

One of the teachers, Miss Della Mitchelmore, wanted to have her class ask some questions about climate change and the car. So, when lunch ended and everyone else went inside (which took some prodding by the principal BTW), Miss Mitchelmore’s grade 11 & 12 Environmental Science class came out.

We spent 10 minutes going over how the burning of enormous amounts of fossil fuels is leading to abrupt climate change. I explained how every litre of gasoline we burn creates 2.4 kgs of CO2. (Diesel creates 2.7 kgs.) I left some One-Tonne Challenge shirts and brochures, and carried on…