Environmental science students continue Blackland Prairie restoration in Coppell
Ashley Attanucci Web Manager This year, AP and IB Environmental Science teacher Holly Anderson and her students began a new project to help restore the diminishing Blackland Prairie eco-region in Coppell’s own Coppell Nature Park. After an idle winter season, Anderson and her classes are transitioning from their planning stages and moving on to physical restoration. Students are planning to re-visit the recently mowed site to disperese seed balls -clusters of seeds of natural native species of plants- in hopes to recreate biodiversity at the field. Though faced with a current setback of seeds not having arrived on schedule for a field trip planned for Wed. March 23, the seed dispersal is being rescheduled for either…
eCoppell hopes to rid city of plastic bags
by Ashley Attanucci Web Manager It was the hot summer of 2008. Junior Shorjoe Battacharya was touring with his family the country he now visits every other year. He marveled at the mountainous landscape, beaches, temples, cities and the Taj Mahal, making memories that would last a lifetime. To his surprise, what intrigued him the most was not any of the great world wonders before his eyes. “We were out near a lake and we just saw how polluted some of the rivers and lakes were in India because people were just dumping plastic and trash,” Bhattacharya, eCoppell founder and president, said. “The lake was just full of plastic. I was in surprise and in…
Bhattacharya strives for world without plastic bags
by Ashley Attanuci Web Manager It was the hot summer of 2008. Junior Shorjoe Battacharya was touring with his family the country he now visits every other year. He marveled at the mountainous landscape, beaches, temples, cities and the Taj Mahal, making memories that would last a lifetime. To his surprise, what intrigued him the most was not any of the great world wonders before his eyes. “We were out near a lake and we just saw how polluted some of the rivers and lakes were in India because people were just dumping plastic and trash,” Bhattacharya, eCoppell founder and president, said. “The lake was just full of plastic. I was in surprise and in…
Enviromental Change
By Michael Pankonien They were the children of Greatest Generation and the bridge builders to a new era. Growing up in the 60′s and 70′s, it is thanks to the children of these era’s that we owe the progress of the Green Movement. However, this progress did not come unhindered. One must remember that this was an era of great turmoil for our nation; the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the dephs of the Cold War. While the creators of the Green Movement were the heralds of a new generation of preservation in our country, they were also stooped in this turmoil as well. Now as the up and coming children of our generation…
Happy 40th birthday Earth Day!
By Gaby Moran Staff Writer Once a year, Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 to, obviously, appreciate what the Earth has given us, but also to make people aware of the problems humans have caused to the planet and how to fix it. “This is a great day to get more people aware of how they are hurting the environment and how we need to start fixing what we’ve done,” senior Shaeylen Macedonio said. Earth Day was founded 40 years ago by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. Nelson started talking about how America needed a nationwide teach-in day about the environment and after one year, he was able to have the first Earth…
Global Poverty or Environmental Protection?
The November topic for public forum debate: Resolved- When in conflict, the United Nations should prioritize global poverty over environmental protection. While all topics are undoubtedly controversial and leave room for more than enough clash for a judge to evaluate after the round, this topic has definitely got judges holding their head by the time the round is over. The topic stages a question about humanity. Do we rescue simply the people living in poverty or all of civilization being diminished by threatening environmental situations such as global warming? In most cases, a judge will lean towards solving for global poverty due to the emotional aspects of the case, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that…