This December, Earth Team was excited to welcome back sustainability consultant Rilynn Misa from Environmental Innovations for a returning workshop on green school certification and student-led environmental action. Building on last year’s visit, Rilynn led interns through an updated session that showcased her unique career path and emphasized school sustainability
For this week’s after-school meeting, Earth Team at Pinole Valley High switched it up and got outside to help Contra Costa Resource Conservation District (CCRCD) and Friends of Pinole Creek Watershed refresh the native plant garden at the Pinole library! Our site was the local native plant garden, right up
This past Saturday, interns from San Lorenzo High, Arroyo High, and Skyline High united forces to complete some bird surveys and restoration at Oyster Bay Regional Park in San Leandro. Interns arrived early in the morning, eager to begin walking around our site for the day. After everyone was present,
With schools on break this week for Thanksgiving, Earth Team is honoring the time off for interns as well. The week prior, however, was still booked and busy with environmental lessons and activities in after-school meetings. It also offered interns a moment to reflect on their first two months in
Earlier in the month on Saturday, November 8th, interns from Antioch High School and Pittsburg High School gathered at the Antioch Marina Harbor to conduct an on-land visual trash assessment (OVTA). They supplemented this litter survey with a cleanup, and then worked together to sort the litter into piles based
On Saturday, Earth Team interns from Arroyo, San Lorenzo, and Skyline high schools teamed up at Castro Valley Creek Trail for a creek cleanup event. Earth Teams have visited this section of the creek before, and it has been part of a larger restoration project led by the ACRCD. Recently,
Interns at Arroyo High School have been learning about an emerging air-quality issue: Tire and Road Wear Particles (TRWPs). These tiny fragments are created each time a vehicle’s tires grind against the pavement, releasing micro-particles, metals, and chemical additives into the environment. Earth Team has set out to collect real-world
On Veteran’s Day, San Lorenzo High School interns sampled their community for Tire and Road Wear Particles (TRWP). TRWPs form whenever tires rub against the road, producing microscopic rubber and chemical particles that can wash into storm drains, pollute waterways, or become airborne dust. Through a TRWP monitoring project, students
During a beautiful gap in the rain, Pinole Valley High students were able to get out in the sun for our November weekend event! This past Saturday the 15th, thanks to collaborations with the City of Pinole, interns were able to audit the contents of local trash capture devices. The
