Luke

I am an 8th Grader in LREI, Little Red School House. I am in the water pollution group with some of my friends and we are trying to create awareness to this topic and do volunteer work to help the ocean and waters around us. I choose this topic because I love the water, I am a scuba diver, fisherman, and I love water sports.

Jaqueline Wu Interview, River Project, 1/10/17

Jaqueline Wu works for the River Project based here in lower Manhattan. The River Project is a hands on river clean up organization. There propose is to be the one that is actually on the water cleaning the water and raising awareness about the water. They have a thing called a wet lab where there…

Interview with Edward Stern 1/10/17

On Tuesday the 17th of January me and my group interviewed Edward Stern. He is on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund which is an organization which believes that politics, business and money can solve the environmental problems all around the world. This is one of the biggest environmental organizations in the world. Edward,…

Gowanus Canal Conservancy Tour 1/3/17 Water pollution group

On Tuesday, January 3, Me and my group went to the Gowanus Canal conservancy center in Brooklyn. This organization focuses on the contaminations in the canal, mainly historical ones. The volunteer coordinator gave us a walking tour around the canal and the neighborhood around it. He told us about all of the problems in the canal…