Lucy Eig

Lucy is an eighth grade student at LREI. She was born in New York City in 2008 and she spends most of her time at school, hanging out with her friends, or playing volleyball. She cares about water pollution and how it affects climate change because she understands that it is a major problem in the world and wants to help take a step in resolving it.

Interview With Jennifer Bombardier From The LES Ecology Center

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We had an interview with Jennifer Bombardier. Jennifer is the educational manager at the Lower East Side Ecology Center. She told us a lot about the organization and what they do. We learned about the major effects and sources of water pollution and she gave us a list of organizations that we could either schedule and interview with or find an oppurtunity to do fieldwork. I think that this was a very successful interview and now we have other people that we could meet with to learn even more about our topic.

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Interview with Sofia Zuberbuhler-Yafar

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We had an interview with Sofia Zuberbuhler-Yafar from Green Infrastructure and Sustainable/Resilient Infra Program. We talked with Sofia about the dangers of water pollution and the effects that it has. We learned a lot about storm water and what is being done to ensure that we have clean water that we can drink. This was a very successful interview and I feel like our group learned a lot of helpful information.

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Interview With Linda Escalante

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We had an interview with Linda Escalante from the NRDC and although the interview got cut short, we learned a lot of about where water comes from, how it is used, and what pollutes it the most. Linda told us about what she does at the NRDC and how the NRDC takes action in helping decontaminate the water around us.

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Water Pollution and Climate Change 101

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Last week, on Friday the 21st of January, my group presented the basics and gave an introduction to our topic. I was not there, but I helped make the presentation and if I was there, I would have talked about the organizations we are planning on meeting with and the specific people from those organizations. One of the organizations we are hoping to meet with is the NRDC (National Resources Defense Council).

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