An Essex Student Wants to Offset School's Paper Usage by Planting 270 Trees
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...
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