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Sierra Club SF honors North Oakland youth for helping their community Go Green
Local youth are leading their neighbors, church community and schools to be environmentally aware and go green at home.
Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter recently celebrated Youth Going Green’s youth-led work to foster environmental awareness, food scrap composting and recycling behaviors throughout the North Oakland community, especially among other young people.
Created and managed by the young members of Memorial Tabernacle Church, and supported in part by StopWaste’s community outreach grants, Youth Going Green has educated hundreds of people on what and how to keep recyclables and food scraps out of the landfill. Youth leaders like Nuvia and Patrice (pictured above) work with elementary, middle and high schools, as well as their own church community, to ensure their neighbors have the tools and know-how to reduce waste in their homes, schools and work places.
Nuvia and other members of Memorial Tabernacle Church also partnered with StopWaste’s Ready Set Recycle program to create its new video showing how to use old newspapers to make a pouch for food scraps and food-soiled paper to keep your home green pail clean.
