The Environment and its Activists

By: Landon, Jaden, Marina, and Sage

"The clock is ticking in terms of the amount of time we have to deal with the major issues like clean air, clean water and global warming."
-- Sharon Smith, Brower New Leaders program director.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Erica Fernandez....................................................................................3

Chapter 2: Alex Lin...................................................................................................7

Chapter 3: Environmental Issues...........................................................................

Chapter 4: Environmental Solutions......................................................................16

Glossary.....................................................................................................................

Chapter 1

Landon Case

Erica Fernandez

Many people are trying to help the Earth because of how much it's polluted. Erica Fernandez is one of these people fighting for the environment; she is a young activist telling people how they can help, by posting it on the internet doing everything she can.

While at a conference at Harvard University, she was able to speak out to the students and get some of them to help. This is the quote she presented to them coming from her role model Cesar Chavez in the article," Young Activist Erica Fernandez speaks out for the Environment", "Once social change begins, it cannot be reserved. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the person who is not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours." This quote shows that we can control or help what the future will be, so we can make the Earth a non-polluted place. Back home she was able to rally people together to help the Earth, and many others opened up to helping too.

Erica Fernandez

Erica was able to meet with President Barack Obama and tell him about an idea she had. It was a 36 inch liquefied gas pipeline. Her idea was good, but a couple years later people moved on. To Erica, this was the start of the end of the Earth. Other people don't care about the Earth and can't get it in their head that the Earth is falling apart; most just want to make money off its resources. It is up to us to help the world's environment.

Chapter 2

By: Jaden Cushing

Imagine trash in the oceans, the air polluted-can't you see what people are doing to our earth? We are destroying our planet. It takes a second to realize how much green space is still here for the animals. Now look at how quickly it is disappearing. People need to stop pollution by finding better ways to help our environment. They can: reduce, reuse, and recycle. In addition, people can find other ways to stop pollution such as disposing of e-waste like Alex Lin did with Team WIN.

Alex Lin

Alex Lin is a 16-year-old teen activist. He helps the environment by recycling old computers. In the article "Alex Lin, teen activist" the author states that is from Westerly, Rhode Island. He read an article about e-waste (electronic waste) that inspired him to start a group with his friends, and they have been recycling e-waste since the 5th grade.This shocking fact reveals that almost all electronics devices contain hazardous chemicals. Secondly,heavy metals such as lead,mercury and cadmium are the most deadly to are human body (5). Additionally, Alex Lin started to help the environment after reading the Wall Street Journal. Then he named his group team WIN (westerly Innovations Network). Electronic waste makes up 70% of over all toxic waste.Alex has overseen 300,000 pounds of e-waste. According to the article it states,"We worked with Metech Internaional to hold an e-waste recycling drive that collected over 21,000 pounds of electronics" (5). This quote highlights that it is important to recycle old electronics so harsh chemicals can't hurt us.