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trying to make it work Sometimes the hardest part of a project isn’t the idea. It’s figuring out how to make the idea exist in the real world. Over the past few months, I’ve been continuing to work on the digital Walkbook project for the Sheldrake trails. At first, most of the work felt straightforward:…
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Over the past few months, one of the most meaningful things I’ve been part of has been the Climate & Resilience Education Task Force (CRETF) Youth Steering Committee – or YSC. It’s one thing to care about climate education in theory, but it’s another to actually sit in conversations with scientists, educators, advocates, and other…
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It feels like things have been quietly building lately. Not in a dramatic way – more like steady momentum. The Walkbook, Reimagined I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the digital Walkbook for Sheldrake. What started as an idea has slowly turned into something much more concrete. Over the past few weeks, I’ve…
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The past few weeks have felt dense – not necessarily louder than before, just fuller. More conversations, more ideas taking shape, more reminders that sustainability work doesn’t only live in big projects or polished outcomes. A lot of it happens in meetings, in questions that linger, in noticing systems you didn’t see before. Energy You…
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It’s been a while since I’ve written here. The start of junior year arrived like a tidal wave – standardized test prep, harder classes, college talk starting to hum in the background – everything suddenly felt louder, faster, closer. I’ve been tired. I’ve been overwhelmed. I’ve been trying to find my footing in the middle…
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Last week, I walked into my first-ever meeting of my town’s Sustainability Collaborative. I’d been orbiting around this group for a while – back in the spring, I reached out to the chair of the collaborative and basically asked, “Hey, I want to be more involved in our town’s sustainability efforts. Where do I start?”…
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I’ve been playing the piano and cello for as long as I can remember – classical music mostly, though I’ve been trying to play some of the hit songs that I enjoy listening to recently. There’s something about those instruments that to me is like a conversation, like storytelling without words. Brahms, Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff,…
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As I mentioned in previous posts, I took Columbia Precollege Program’s Environmental Studies: Designing a Sustainable Future course this summer – a three-week deep dive that completely shifted my mindset. Our classroom wasn’t dark – but it was old. High ceilings, old, wooden lecture-style chairs, chalkboard walls. And the AC? Blasting like we were trying…
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Every summer leaves a few memories that really stick with me. Sometimes it’s a weird airport experience, sometimes a great sunset, sometimes making an unexpected friend, sometimes – apparently – it’s pulling population data to understand rainfall patterns in Maui. Last year, during my sophomore year, I joined the TOPS School Open Science Team, working…
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There’s something oddly satisfying about a good case study – digging into a problem, tracing the solution, realizing it’s kinda genius (or kinda flawed), and then sitting in a group and arguing about it in the most respectful academic way possible. That was a big part of my experience in the Columbia Precollege program taught…
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