Thursday, October 2

Grassroots Environmental's "How Green Is My Town?"

Grassroots Environmental Education returned to Adelphi on October 2nd to promote their organization and their projects to both students and professors that shared an interest in environmental wellbeing and studies. Tiffany Tona, the Grassroots student coordinator started the presentation by introducing the purpose and idea behind the organization. Along with Tiffany were the directors/founders of Grassroots - Doug Wood and Patti Wood. Doug and Patti expanded on what Tiffany said about the organization by sharing the goals of Grassroots and the organization’s accomplishments.

The organization focuses on research of the leading environmental problems and finding alternative solutions to raise awareness of health and environmental hazards Grassroots prepared a project to rate how green towns are, allowing the public to see and work on plans that will benefit their community and public health. Grassroots began their work in Nassau County and announced that the rating will be completed by the end of the semester. As part of their presentation, Doug, Patti and Tiffany encouraged students to help with the project and spread the word about their work.  With the interest of many people at the event, Grassroots is currently holding classes at Adelphi to train students to become interns for their organization.     

Written by Roshini Givergis