Shrika Kulkarni
Schools have a big influence on people because it is a big part of their childhood and life. Children learn from the things around them, and since they spend a lot of time on the school campus, they learn a lot from how things are done on campus. For example, if your school promotes recycling, they will learn about recycling. Schools, therefore, have a big responsibility to set a good example and have the advantage of influencing a child’s future positively with their campus. Some schools do have speakers come over and talk to their students about composting and similar concepts, however, if schools themselves became eco-friendly, students would be more profoundly impacted.
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Niharika Sapre
From sending the first human up into space, to landing on the moon, 1960 was the decade of major advancements beyond the planet Earth. These successful missions have been enabled by spaceships, enormously powerful and wonderful, yet limited in resources. This constraint requires cyclic arrangements. Lisa Dyson and Dr. John Reed, like NASA researchers then, became intrigued by the potential of various self-sustaining systems.
Ifran Mohamed
Soil, an abundant resource in our planet, serves as the bedrock that supports ecosystems and habitats worldwide while also subsidizing the fluctuation of natural vegetation. However, as our global population exponentially increases at a worrisome rate, the necessity for food is aggravating like never before, requiring that more land be allotted for farming. As a result, our means of agriculture have transitioned from natural growth to artificial growth, where fertilizers and other chemicals are being used to speed up the process of production. Furthermore, human practices such as deforestation, overgrazing of pastures, and the use of agrochemicals are commonly used to quench the paramounting threat of food shortage. As beneficial these actions may be, they are fueling yet another problem: soil erosion and its negative effects.
Aditi Chinta and Samaira Mehta
In 2000, Pleasanton devised a climate action plan to help reduce our impact on the environment. Twenty years later, our City Council is revisiting that plan to make it more efficient and equip us with a better plan to tackle climate change. The first meeting, on October 7th, was focused on looking back on the original plan, and deciding where revisions were needed. |
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