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Tweet Patrick KingPhoto: Steven Romero of Music City Creative When you think about climate activists, who comes to mind? Greta Thunberg? Al Gore? A recent study by Yale University’s Climate Change Communication program found that Latino and Black Americans are more likely to be alarmed or concerned about climate change than whites.   “The environmental sector suffers from an alarming amount of whiteness,” says Patrick King, the sustainability education manager of local nonprofit Urban Green Lab. “There’s a perception that it’s a space only for affluent white folks, when i...

Tweet Recycling sorting at River Hills Recycling CenterPhoto: Eric England A sound not unlike rain patters incessantly at the back of the open-air building where trucks dump material at Nashville’s River Hills Recycling Center. This is the largest recycling facility in Nashville, and that sound is a thunderstorm of sorts. It’s a steady stream of pill bottles, drink cans, cardboard boxes and other materials hurtling through a large machine called a drum feeder, which sends the items down a conveyor belt to be sorted. Although operations manager Dilan Vince says the drum feeder can ...

By: Sarah Pittman Megan Scallorn Channel Tres performs atDeep Tropics in 2019. That year the boutique festival's sustainability efforts included collecting 700 pounds of compost material and sending 300 pounds of non-recyclable plastics and waste to Terra Cycle to be reused to make into other plastic products. festivalReturning in 2021 to safely put on an event would be a lofty enough goal for most festival organizers. But the organizers of Deep Tropics Music Art & Style Festival are determined to take their greening efforts to the next level to b...