Kids from schools across Detroit gathered together last month at the Lincoln Street Art Park to discuss how climate change affects their communities.
“Climate change definitely affects us, especially now,” says Kierra Pleasant, a senior at Cass Tech in Detroit.
That morning, these students went door-to-door in Detroit’s Grixdale neighborhood to get residents involved in a recycling program aimed at reducing waste. On that day alone, the kids were able to get nearly 40 households involved in the city’s recycling program. This is something the organization, Green Living Science, is passionate about.
“It’s all about protecting the environment, being climate stewards and focusing from the core of it all with the three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) and making it a big community thing,” says Curtis Schabath, director of education at Green Living Science…