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title: From Gustavus, Alaska, USA
date: 2009-12-18T10:16:58Z
modified: 2009-12-18T12:06:03Z
permalink: "https://350.org/gustavus-alaska-usa/"
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status: publish
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wpid: 15926
author: Bill McKibben
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![](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/4044091904_6a01f62b98_o.jpg)
This just arrived, and it’s a great contrast to the craziness here in Copenhagen. These kids gathered secondhand t-shirts and made them into shopping bags–350 of them, or one for every citizen of Gustavus, with a few left over! We couldn’t be prouder to have them as colleagues!