In Net Zero Show UN Young Leader for the SDGs Discusses Competencies Learned from a Life in Climate Activism

Youth social entrepreneur Udit Singhal reflects on non-traditional education gained from a life dedicated to climate justice. 

Young social entrepreneurs continue to be torchbearers for the climate movement. In Net Zero Speaks with Udit Singhal, Climate Activist Priyanka Prakash interviews sustainability champion Udit Singhal. Singhal is the founder of Glass2Sand, an environmentally-friendly "carbon-negative" initiative and "no glass to landfills" movement that he established in 2018 at age 16. He was recognized for his contributions and selected as a UN Young Leader for the SDGs 2020-22 at 17. Pedagogical experts have continued to argue that social entrepreneurship provides learners with critical competences to flourish in a 21st century world. Singhal reflects in Net Zero on the valuable knowledge and skills he gained from his journey so far.

Grassy Narrows requests environmental assessment of logging plan

 Elder Bill Fobister of Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation (Grassy Narrows) speaking at a protest at Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Clearcutting will elevate mercury poison in fish

Grassy Narrows – Grassy Narrows First Nation is calling for a thorough environmental assessment of the newly approved plan for clearcut logging on their Territory – an important test of Ontario’s environmental laws.  Grassy Narrows is concerned that the planned logging could harm the health of their families by raising mercury poison levels in local fish.  The logging plan makes no mention of mercury, even though Grassy Narrows Territory is the site of Canada’s most infamous case of mercury poisoning arising from 9,000 kg of mercury that was dumped into a local river by a paper mill upstream in the 1960’s.  Scientific studies indicate that clearcut logging in the boreal forest can raise mercury in fish to unsafe levels.