Overconsumption and Pollution

Albany Climate Change Protest – 1/13/16

by Ciro

We heard about a climate change and oil pipeline rally in Albany and we of course wanted to go. We joined together with the environment group in the other class and we worked to set up a way for us to go. We ended up getting on a bus to Albany at 6:45 in the…

by Ciro

We met up with a GCC member, Micheal Wasserman, at a Brooklyn compost headquarters. We collected a garbage bag, a recycling bag, gardening tools and a cart to put it all in. We walked all together to a large avenue on which there are community gardening boxes. The problem was, however, that very few of…

by Ciro

We met at Idlewild Park with the park services and we also met Micheal Wassermann from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy group unintentionally. We had not talked to anyone in specific, we just happened across the Cleanup and decided that it would be great to participate. We learned a bit about just how much trash there…

by Michelle

On Friday, January 29th, my group and I took the ferry all the way to Governor’s Island. We met with the Billion Oyster Project (BOP). The Billion Oyster Project is an organization that works with bringing oysters back to NYC. You may wonder, what is the importance of saving oysters? Sure they are delicious,…

by Michelle

On MLK day, Ciro and I went on a clean up in a dedication of MLK day. It was quite frigid but definitely worth it. We met up with NYC Parks at Idlewild Park, Queens. This coastal park was packed with trash, ever since Hurricane Sandy. Our goal was to try our best to…

by Brianna

We took the ferry to the Harbor School on Governor’s Island to volunteer with the Billion Oyster Project. For clarity, the Billion Oyster Project is an ongoing effort to bring oysters back to the Hudson. The Hudson area used to be abundant in oysters, but due to over consumption slowly disappeared. Oysters also have an…

by Brianna

On a frigid Thursday, my groupmates and I met up with Michael Wasserman. We met another member, and then we set to work with grabbers, bags, gloves, compost with worms, and pruners. A lot of the plants we saw were withered or perhaps dead, or perennials. We cleaned out different planters, and I now think…

by Brianna

On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 we traveled for three hours via bus from the Port Authority Bus Station on 8th Avenue to attend a protest in Albany. The weather was cold and miserable, but a group of protesters stood out in the cold, holding signs to protest the pending Constitutional Pipeline. We made our way as close…

by Michelle

On January 14th, our group met up with Michael Wasserman (Gowanus Canal Conservancy). We did some gardening and cleaning up. These plants were in pretty bad conditions. Most of them were dead, piled with trash, and some were even frozen! We knew immediately we had to get down to work. It was awfully cold,…

by Michelle

Early Wednesday morning, our group and the Change Climate Change group took a bus all the way to Albany! We were on our way to a climate change walk. Although it was very cold, it was definitely worth it. We held signs and made noise to raise awareness of what NY State is doing to…

by Michelle

Our group watched a very moving documentary that covered various topics involving environmental issues. It covered overcomsumption, sustainability, pollution and global warming. This documentary was called, “Racing Extinction” on Discovery Channel. I learned several heartbreaking facts that made me look at the world and what we humans are doing to it differently. I learned that…

by Michelle

On December 4th, my group and I went on a fieldwork with Gowanus Canal Conservancy. We met Michael Wasserman. Altogether we held a clean up in a garden near a storage facility which was piled with trash. We found water bottles, candy wrappers and even coat hangers! Whilst cleaning up, we recycled plastics. We were very…

by Brianna

During the fieldwork, our contact was Michael Wasserman from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy. We went to the 3rd and 3rd garden in Brooklyn and got to work with grabber arms and bags. Our goal was to clean up the little forgotten garden as much as possible. As we arrived, we saw a common site in…

by Ciro

We watched a film called “Racing Extinction” about how humans are exterminating many animal species and that we are doing very little to stop it from happening. It talked about many different species but it mostly focused on Manta Rays. It explained how Manta Rays are hunted in many rural towns in Indonesia. The mantas are…

by Ciro

For this fieldwork, we met up with a man named Michael Wasserman who works with the Gowanus Conservancy against the pollution in Brooklyn. We took the subway to 4th avenue and walked a couple of blocks. We then proceeded to enter the Whole Foods building where we found out that we had made a mistake…

by Brianna

I happened to find this documentary quite unexpectedly, and quickly told my group members. I then proceeded to email my Humanities teacher, asking if we could count this as a fieldwork. At promptly 8:58 pm, EST, I tuned into the Discovery Channel, to watch the Racing Extinction documentary. I was appalled at what I saw.…

by Mark Silberberg

We care about our earth. There is just too much overconsumption on our planet, which leads to pollution and other ill affects on our natural world. We want to do something about it and are learning how to take responsibility for the waste we create. Click here to read more.