Atticus

I am an 8th grader at lrei. for my social justice project I am working on environmental issues, specifically water pollution. I look in on how we throw away thing into the ocean and how our waste gets into the ocean. I am bringing awareness to how we effect our water. I chose this topic because water in 96.5% of the world and we need to take care of it. water is our home and if we pollute it it will effect all of us.

Fieldwork 5: Flow Love of Water

For my last fieldwork, I watched the movie flow. I watched this on my own because the rest of my team has gotten all of their fieldworks done. Flow is a movie that talks about all aspects of water pollution. It talks about what it is, how it is affecting us and how we are…

Fieldwork 4: River Project interview

For this interview, we had an interview with an employee that works for the organization river project. This organization helps clean up polluted waters around the city and help fight water pollution. The employee talked about the organization like what they do, how it helps and how we can help. This organization has partnered with…

Fieldwork 3 interview with Edward Stern 1/10/17

For my third fieldwork, my group had an interview with Edward Stern the founder and owner of EDF (Environmental Defence Fund) which funds social justice originations and helps find problems that people have an idea how to fix it. Some of these organizations help with water pollution. He mostly focuses on the economic issues with…

Fieldwork 2: Billion Oyster Project 12/5/16

For our second fieldwork, my group went back to Governors Island to partner up with the Billion Oyster Project again. We went with the other water pollution group as well. On their blogs, they probably will have a lot more things that we learned but since we already went and learned a lot, we didn’t…

Fieldwork 1: Billion Oyster Project 11/10/16

My group went to The Billion Oyster project on Thursday November 10th. This is an organization that helps preserve more oysters for the Hudson river. I didn’t know why at first but later on I learned that oysters actually help filter the water cleaning it more. We had to take a ferry to governors Island…