Category Archives: Overconsumption and Pollution
Albany Climate Change Protest – 1/13/16
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 gr [...]
Gowanus Canal Conservancy – Compost and Gardening
We met up with a GCC member, Micheal Wasserman, at a Brooklyn compost headquarters. We collected a garbage bag, a recycling bag, gardening t [...]
Share: Social Justice 2016
As a result of my experience as a change maker, I learned that children can do most of whatever they put their minds to, and that the smalle [...]
Idlewild Park Wetland Cleanup
We met at Idlewild Park with the park services and we also met Micheal Wassermann from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy group unintentionally. [...]
Billion Oyster Project @ Governor’s Island 1/29
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 [...]
MLK Idlewild Park Clean Up 1/18
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 [...]
Billion Oyster Project Fieldwork on Governor’s Island, 1/29/16
We took the ferry to the Harbor School on Governor’s Island to volunteer with the Billion Oyster Project. For clarity, the Billion Oys [...]
Refilling Planters With Gowanus Canal Conservancy 1/14/16
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, [...]
Albany Protest With The Seneca Lake Defenders, 1/13/16
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 [...]
Making Compost and Gardening with Gowanus 1/14
On January 14th, our group met up with Michael Wasserman (Gowanus Canal Conservancy). We did some gardening and cleaning up. These pl [...]
Albany Climate Change Walk 1/13
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 cha [...]
Racing Extinction Film 12/2
Our group watched a very moving documentary that covered various topics involving environmental issues. It covered overcomsumption, sustaina [...]
3rd Gowanus Canal Conservancy Clean Up 12/4
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 [...]
3rd and 3rd Garden Cleanup With Michael Wasserman, Dec. 4, 2015
During the fieldwork, our contact was Michael Wasserman from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy. We went to the 3rd and 3rd garden in Brooklyn an [...]
“Racing Extinction” – Ciro
We watched a film called “Racing Extinction” about how humans are exterminating many animal species and that we are doing very [...]
Gowanus Conservancy 3rd & 3rd Garden Cleanup – Ciro
For this fieldwork, we met up with a man named Michael Wasserman who works with the Gowanus Conservancy against the pollution in Brooklyn. W [...]
Racing Extinction December 2nd, 2015
I happened to find this documentary quite unexpectedly, and quickly told my group members. I then proceeded to email my Humanities teacher, [...]
Don’t Waste the Waste
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 [...]
