Sustainability Through Student Voices

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Save this post to join the conscious consumer movement! ♻️👖👕

Did you know that 92 million tons of textiles are discarded every year? So before you buy a new item of clothing, level up your shopping game by asking yourself these questions.

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Happy Tuesday Earthlings!

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Friends don’t let friends have Carbon Tunnel Vision

Credit: diagram by Jan Konietzko, adapted by for

Way to go Town School 5th graders!! We can’t wait to see all the Smart Compost bins in the UES!

UES Gets 22 Smart Composting Bins, Admiration From Neighbors "THIS IS THE BEST NEWS," wrote one neighbor on social media.

♻️🌍💚Happy Earth Day💚🌍♻️

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Today, the Council’s “Skip the Stuff” legislation sponsored by , which will decrease the amount of plastic in our city’s waste stream and reduce expenses for food service establishments, was signed into law.

Learn more: https://council.nyc.gov/press/2023/01/19/2342/

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And that's why CO2 emissions drop like a stone if you follow a vegetarian or a vegan diet.

We need a massive shift towards more plant-based diets, especially in rich meat-eating countries.

🎨 Carbon emissions of comon proteins, based on media CO2 equivalents for 100mg of protein derived from each source. Source: Bon Appétit (Poore and Nemecek, 2018) via

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You can be vegan or you can just eat less meat. Try it !!!

Swapping just 1/5 of our beef consumption for vegan proteins could dramatically slow the pace of future deforestation.

Credit: “Projected environmental benefits of replacing beef with microbial protein” published in Nature, via Matt Reynolds for ; design by for

Happy New Year! Don’t forget to bring your tree to a nearby New York City park to have it mulched. You can take home a bag of mulch next weekend. Please REMOVE all lights, ornaments, and any other decorations before bringing your tree to a drop off site.

Gift cards are great but they shouldn’t be around forever!

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HOLIDAY ALERT! 🎁Gift cards are a convenient and popular giving choice that are big business (roughly $173 billion dollars’ worth of gift cards were sold in the US in 2021.)

💳Unfortunately, many big brand companies are choosing to make their gift cards from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic.

☠️Vinyl chloride, the building block of PVC, is a human carcinogen and creating PVC requires the use of cancer-causing chemicals with a history of sickening workers☣️ and causing fires that are harmful to nearby communities.🔥

😮Not only is PVC plastic not accepted by curbside recycling programs, it is also one of the most hazardous types of plastic, sickening workers and resulting in waste that the EPA is considering regulating as "hazardous".

😊The good news is that safe, non-toxic and fully recyclable alternatives exist! ♻️

👉Join us in calling on and - the four largest sellers of gift cards in the US to switch from polluting PVC cards to either paper or digital gift cards ASAP. You can contact their senior leadership at https://bit.ly/pvc-cards or scan the QR code.

Thanks in advance for sharing.

A huge thank you to Rebecca B Weston of Climate Psychology Alliance North America for sharing her insights with us at our first event of the year “Sustainable Climate, Sustainable Selves”