Getting Started

I sent out several emails to set up meetings or get preliminary information from people involved in the green initiative at Brookline High School. My first instinct was of course to shoot Mr. Grande an email, him being the leader of the SAJE organization. As I looked deeper and talked to a couple of my friends, I was notified that another group had branched off from SAJE's Climate Action Committee. The Environmental Action Committee, founded and run by Rachel Sandalow-Ash and Sophie Lazaar has been equally involved in the fight against global warming, particularly recently. I was also interested in talking to the Environmental Sciences teacher at Brookline High School, Ms. Brown, to whom I had been directed by several of my friends, students in her class. She should be a good source for a background of the issues, but most likely less about the actual action being taken to lower carbon emissions at Brookline High School.

In my email to Mr. Grande, I explained the project I was doing and asked him if he was interested in giving me an overview of the issues and what Students for Action and Justice in Education (SAJE) and their Climate Action Committee had actually done regarding these issues (preferably besides simply raising awareness about the problems). To Rachel Sandalow-Ash and Sophie Lazaar, I posed similar questions in addition to questions  regarding the reasons for their separation from the SAJE group and an explanation of how the two groups worked together. For Ms. Brown I, aside from the typical questions, I asked whether or not this was a big aspect of her class and how well she thought students at Brookline High School understood the challenges and what they could do to help. I wanted her to evaluate the attitude of Brookline High students towards this green initiative. I also asked her for a list of people I could try to talk to in order to go further in depth. We'll see where this takes me from here.