or climate activist Sage Lenier, 24, education is a tool for empowerment. Too often, she says, higher education focuses solely on the problems instead of exploring solutions to the world’s many pressing environmental challenges. The result can leave students feeling overwhelmed and depressed.
“I’m not going to sit around and wait for sweeping national legislation. So, what can you do at the city, state, or county level to push the needle?” she asks.Building on the program’s success at Berkeley, in the spring of 2021 a onetime virtual version of the course was made available online in partnership with the nonprofit Zero Waste USA.
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