What Possible Difference Could It Make, Vol.5: Recycling
I know what you are going to say. We’ve known for decades “what difference recycling can make,” so why is it still so darn hard? Yes, we know, recycling is good for the planet, and yes, it also is good for the economy. In a single year, according to the Recycling Economic Information (REI) Report,
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PIPs for School Scholar: Lutfia C.
Lutfia C. is working toward her PhD in public health at the University at Buffalo. She was born in Bangladesh but now lives in Buffalo with her mom and brother. She wants to pursue a career as an environmental health educator. That may explain why, as a PIPs for School Scholar, she found refilling one’s
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What Possible Difference Could It Make, Vol. 4: Reusable Water Bottles
Yuck is all I can say. According to our friends at Beyond Plastic, “We are all ingesting roughly a credit card worth (5 grams) of plastics each week.” A recent study found microplastics, which research has shown “act as endocrine-disrupting chemicals,” are contained in a stunning 93% of the globally-sourced bottled waters they tested, at twice the levels
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PIPs for School Scholar: Daneyda G.
Daneyda (Danny) is passionate about school, her mom, and helping others. “Mostly it’s my mother,” she explains. “Because thanks to her I have this great opportunity to be in this place right now and to be studying,” something she acknowledges her mother wasn’t able to do in her home country. Danny talked recently with Tamera
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