seem a long way off, but Iris Hsiang already has a plan for planting. The Essex High School junior is selling trees to offset the paper used by the school. For the 2018-19 academic year, that amounted to an estimated 2.7
million sheets, she said. That s just a crazy amount to be going through for paper alone, Hsiang said. And it s a crazy carbon footprint.
“Fired Up” is a semi-regular series exploring Vermont’s climate-related challenges and what residents are trying at a local level to mitigate the planet’s heating trend noting what’s catching on and what isn’t. We’ll also look at ways to become more resilient in the face of changes that may be inevitable.