“The more I learned about climate change, the more shocked I was and I began wondering what are we doing to fix this?” After hearing about the Carton 2 Garden contest, Alexi led her high school environmental club, projectclimatehhs, to grow native oak trees to help replenish forests destroyed by the recent California wildfires. Project Climate began collecting milk cartons and jugs to serve as planting containers for foraged acorns. The group also used CAD software to design a planter box with a water collection system that could be used for holding all the seedlings. For over a year the club tended the saplings until this past January when they finally received the go ahead to plant at California State University’s East Bay campus as part of the school’s ongoing carbon sequestration efforts. “Seeing all the trees in the ground with the little flags sticking up and knowing that a year ago they were acorns and knowing that in future years they’ll be trees—that’s amazing!” Read mor...