On January 18th my Social Justice group watched a documentary called FLOW For Love of Water, which was about the world water crisis. I learned many interesting things about this huge problem, for example, many Americans only buy bottled water, which pushes the bottled water industry into low-income communities, it may cost double but they…
On January 9th, after eating lunch and quickly discussing a plan, Cole, Jack, Willem, Susannah and I bundled up in 3+ layers, opened the doors and flinched at the freezing weather. Our goal was to go to a rally to say no to Donald Trump’s appointments to his cabinet. We arrived at 48th and were…
On January 9th, Cole, Willem, Jack and I called Jaqueline Patterson who is the head of the NAACP. We interviewed her asking questions, ranging from more philosophical questions like if you could change one thing about how we treat the environment and more specific questions like what are some examples of superfund sights. In specific,…
On December 16th, 2016 Me, Cole, Jack A. and Willem called and interviewed Mr. David Chang, who works at WEACT for Environmental Justice, he specializes on indoor environmental justice. We talked to him about, examples of Environmental Injustice, the Flint Water Crisis and Environmental Injustice in the future. One thing I learned about are superfund…
On Saturday 11/12 Cole, Jack and I went to a conference at Columbia University called Urban Communities for Environmental Resilience run by We Act for Environmental Justice (WEACT). We Act is an organization of scientist and lawyers to help make all communities clean and safe. We helped David Chang, the environmental health coordinator at…
