World Environment Day
Celebrate World Environment Day with expert Derek Lowstuter's book Fiddler on the Roof of Africa which addresses environmental conservation.
"The planet doesn’t argue. It doesn’t negotiate. It sends signals—rising seas, raging wildfires, heatwaves, melting glaciers.
We said 1.5°C was the limit. We are crossing it.
For decades, the world has heard the climate story—warnings, targets, distant deadlines. Too often, the response has been clouded by noise: delay, distraction, denial.
But listen closer now. Beneath the noise, another signal is rising. Solar panels stretch across rooftops. Wind turbines line the horizon. Cities are being redesigned for people. Forests are being replanted. Climate solutions are taking root in every corner of the planet.
#WorldEnvironmentDay 2026 focuses on climate change—on the urgent signals the Earth is sending and the signals we choose to send back. UNEP’s global campaign calls on all of us to step in #NowForClimate, and steer a world already in motion. See how you can get involved."
Fiddler on the Roof of Africa: How to Fail Successfully as a Peace Corps Volunteer is a mix of academic study and personal observations—equal parts literature review, introspection, scholarly analysis, confabulation, with a pinch of classic ethnocentrism. The goal of this book is to address international development issues such as food aid, environmental conservation, cultural traditionalism, and development theory. Each chapter grounds these topics in first-hand experiences to make them more engaging and accessible.
Derek Lowstuter graduated with a B.S. degree in Natural Resource Management, with minors in Horticulture, Forestry, and History. He obtained his M.S. degree in Forest Sciences in collaboration with the Peace Corps Masters International Program. He is currently a doctoral student in Organizational Learning, Performance, and Change at Colorado State University. Derek works as an Agricultural and Food Systems Specialist at Colorado State University Extension. He has directed agricultural and natural resource management projects on four continents, but now calls Colorado Springs, CO, home with his wife Claire, their daughter, and a menagerie of animals and houseplants.
