Earth Week 2022 WSHU

Climate change is causing anxiety in young people around the world. In New England, youth activists respond with collective action around food sustainability.

As states weigh trash-to-energy facilities, neighborhoods in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York, have learned from each other to fight for environmental justice with solutions to a growing organic waste management problem. The strategy in New Haven, Connecticut, is reducing trash that ends up in landfills and incinerators.