Local Heroes
Inconvenient Youth: Teens Taking On Global Warming September 29th, 2008
Photo courtesy of Inconvenient Youth The Inconvenient Youth are taking the nation by storm. And no, they’re not an eyeliner wearing rock band (though they’ve got one of those in tow) or a Warriors-esque street...more
Justin Rudd Keeps Long Beach Trash-Free September 25th, 2008
30-Minute Beach Cleanups Prove Effective, Fun
For the past nine years, Justin Rudd has organized a monthly beach cleanup of the beach around Granada Avenue in Long Beach, California. On the third Saturday of every month, volunteers show up at 10...more
Charity: Water Aims to Stop Water Pollution at its Source September 22nd, 2008
Sustainable Non-Profit Brings Clean Water to the Developing World
Before founding Charity: Water in 2006, Scott Harrison was a successful club and event promoter in New York City, coordinating events for some of the biggest names in media, fashion and entertainment. Despite his success,...more
12-Year Old Boy Will Save the World! His Solar Cell Absorbs 500 Times the Light of Existing Cells September 18th, 2008
photo: Ricardo Wang I don’t really have much on this one yet from the technological side so perhaps the save the world part is premature, but William Yuan, a 12-year old boy from Beaverton, Oregon,...more
Middle School Student Invents Ingenious Water Saving Device August 20th, 2008
When By Kids For Kids (BKFK) and The Weather Channel launched the Going Green Challenge to inspire kids to come up with neat inventions to help make an eco-difference there’s little doubt that the field...more
“Buycott For Change” Recognizes Responsible Business, Promotes Merrymaking August 8th, 2008
When Brooklyn resident and Northwestern University graduate Josh Sherman founded Buycott For Change earlier this year, he had one goal in mind: to change the world. The objective of Sherman’s fledgling non-profit is to recognize...more
Teen discovers how to make plastic rot June 18th, 2008
An eleventh grader in Waterloo has figured out what makes plastic decompose and how to speed up that process—to three months. The trick was figuring out which bacteria are responsible for breaking down plastic over...more
Environmental Science Teacher Finds Teachable Moment Amid Classroom Noise June 5th, 2008
It’s not every day you find a classes focusing on the issue of noise pollution and how it affects wildlife, but Tommy Hayes, a rookie environmental science teacher in Boston has done just that; turning...more
Ontario School Gives Students a Lesson in Clean Energy June 4th, 2008
Green Education: Learning by Installing Solar Panels and a Wind Turbine Elliot Lake, Ontario, is a small mining town of about 12,000. The town's secondary school has about 500 students and they have been given...more
Beloved NYC Science Teacher to Be Honored with Rooftop Eco-Center May 27th, 2008
When beloved 34-year-old science teacher Eric Dutt died suddenly last June because of an enlarged heart there was little that could be done to stem the feeling of loss at school. The kind of teacher...more
