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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...

January 18, 2021 at 10:42 PM LIVINGSTON, NJ — In an effort to replace the trees being chopped down for paper use, the Livingston High School (LHS) Key Club recently adopted a tree-planting initiative in partnership with a 501©3 non-profit organization called “Tree-Plenish.” On Sunday, April 18, just four days before Earth Day 2021, the Key Club will host its first Tree-Plenish event “with the goal of offsetting Livingston High School's paper usage,” according to LHS Key Club President Priela Safran. Prior to the event, community members will be invited to purchase tree saplings to...