Students on the San Francisco Peninsula are taking advantage of a program that teaches lessons on climate change and building projects that mitigate its effects on the community.
At Oceana High School in Pacifica at the base of Milagra Ridge, a popular student-led community garden is growing and expanding, thanks to lessons learned about their changing environment.'We're building more garden beds, we're growing plants, we have chickens. We're going to move that shed over there to make room for rabbits,' explained Roman Doyle, one of the members of the school's Garden Club.
'With our last cohort, we received over 130 applications, and we only selected 50 students so it's a pretty competitive program,' said Jess Dominick, a sustainability specialist with the county's Sustainability Department. She also runs the Youth Climate Education Program.'We teach students about climate change but more importantly, we help them take action in their local communities,' added Karen Wang, a spokesperson for the Sustainability Department.
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