ACPUSH EcoChallenge!- York High School

Just put in a raised garden bed and planted tomatoes, beans, zucchini, squash, basil and cilantro, which I will grow organically.

After hearing the founder of SCARCE, Kay McKeen, give a talk at York, I have heard her words that categorize all waste as resources and try to use this premise to guide my efforts at letting the 5 R's be my focus on decreasing waste disposal.

This is a more difficult task in the time of COVID 19.  I try not to use plastic at home or to purchase foods that come to plastic in the grocery store where I shop with my reusable tote and produce bags.  However, due to fear of contamination, I am more hesitant to buy unpackaged produce, to place produce in reusable produce bags, and even to...

Meat has historically always been something the wealthy could afford.  It takes a great deal of resources to grow one cow or pig.  In addition, they give off methane gas as a byproduct.  Also, instead of growing corn and soybeans for human consumption, much of what we grow is for feed for these animals. So it would be very advantageous to...

As a high school Social Studies teacher, a Climate Reality Leader, and one fortunate to have a driven student who organized a team for the Youth Climate Ecochallenge, I am hoping we can make a difference in impacting lives for a greener future.