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Denim Redone: Making sustainable fashion choices at home
Maggie Liddell

Planet Forward Correspondent | SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

Denim Redone: Making sustainable fashion choices at home
Re-Rebs: A new campus clothing recycling program
Mia McKey & Ross Cohen

University of Mississippi

Boxed and Better: Private sector solutions to the water crisis
Samyudha Rajesh

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

Boxed and Better: Private sector solutions to the water crisis
Namé Recycling: Combining revenue, jobs, and sustainability
Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow | Notre Dame University

D-I-Why you should think sustainably this Halloween
Aleena Fayaz

George Washington University

A Cameroonian artist transforms trash into treasure
Akem Olives Nkwain

University of Bamenda

A Cameroonian artist transforms trash into treasure
Informal waste picking: How one woman in Cameroon is providing food for her family while empowering others
Patu Ndango Fen

Mandela Washington Fellowship Reciprocal Exchange

Informal waste picking: How one woman in Cameroon is providing food for her family while empowering others
From water scarcity to security: How Cap Cameroun islanders are solving their problems with plastic bottles
Gladys Asu Ngouana

Mandela Washington Fellowship Reciprocal Exchange

From water scarcity to security: How Cap Cameroun islanders are solving their problems with plastic bottles

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Ayeah Leonette is a singer and single mother saving the planet, one car tire at a time
Giyo Ndzi

Mandela Washington Fellowship Reciprocal Exchange

Campus sustainability and circularity: George Washington University’s Green Move-Out Program
Daria Nastasia

Planet Forward Video Production Assistant | George Washington University

Essay | Water conservation in the Potomac River
Emma Smith

Unity College

Plastic waste gives life to water & classroom infrastructure in Mbalmayo, Cameroon
Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow | Notre Dame University

Essay | Can thrifting combat fast fashion?
Madison Paulus

George Washington University

Cleanup Club Chicago tackles pollution after COVID pandemic increases single-use plastics litter
Astry Rodriguez

Planet Forward Correspondent | Northwestern University

Systems of dignity: How recyclers are making cents of the bottle bill
Eva Kotobuki Sideris

Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

From the landfill to the wardrobe: Wasted textiles find a new home
Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow | Notre Dame University

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