Environment and climate change and global warming and combating impending doom with hydroponic gardening
Xavier Brown, an environmental liaison for a partnership between the University of the District of Columbia and Anacostia High School, inspects student-grown lettuce. and Anacostia High School in Southeast Washington, he was ecstatic. The title may sound too bureaucratic to be work worth doing, but Brown saw an opportunity to enlist a new generation in the battle against the ever-growing threat of climate catastrophe.
Anacostia High is in a part of the city that suffers from the highest poverty and violent crime. Trauma is common, maybe epidemic. More meditative gardening will certainly help. But there is still far more heartbreak than healing east of the Anacostia River these days.Enter gardener Brown, seeding young minds at Anacostia High for a harvest of academic excellence and, hopefully, a timely bounty of love for the earth..
Jeremiah Wright, a 17-year-old senior, began the summer as a soft-spoken, almost shy youngster. But as the program unfolded, he began to speak up, joining in discussions about environmental problems and sharing his ideas about how to solve them. Before hearing Richardson’s presentation, Nekaaeyla wanted to study criminology, hoping to become a defense attorney. After learning about the overheated people who become victims of the “urban heat island effect” — too much sun, too much concrete, too few trees — she now wants to become an environmental justice lawyer, like the ones she met when the interns visited the Environmental Protection Agency.
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