Leaders in Environmental Advocacy at Pratt (LEAP)

04/23/2019

Happy Earth Day everyone!
These are some great pictures from last Saturday’s Sure We Can Earth Celebration Event.
It was super fun! Lots of people came and learned more about plastic pollution and the upcoming plastic bag bans!
Thank you Sure We Can for inviting us to bring the sculpture for the event! Thank you Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment and Pratt SGA for supporting this collaboration and making sure that Pratt’s Blue Wave would make it there!

04/22/2019

Happy Earth Day!
This should be a global holiday!

This Earth Day, learn about the work of Leaders in Environmental Advocacy at Pratt (LEAP) students and their construction of “Blue Wave” featured in this year’s Green Week: http://bit.ly/2UPCH11

04/19/2019

It’s Earth Week!
LEAP’s Blue Wave is participating of Sure We Can Earth Celebration Day this year!!! It’s tomorrow, April 20th, 2 PM, at 219 McKibben St, Brooklyn, New York 11206.
Come celebrate our beautiful Earth with us and Sure We Can! Join us, we’ll eat and talk and honor what the earth has given us.
Featuring original artwork by Alberto Riera and LEAP.

04/12/2019

If you haven’t seen the Blue Wave hurry up! It will only be there until next Thursday!! The sculpture will travel to a few locations in NYC including Sure We Can and schools! We are actually very excited about its tour!

Sustainable design and environmentally-conscious work are happening year-round at Pratt Institute, and the 14th annual Green Week was an opportunity to showcase that leadership on both the Brooklyn and Manhattan campuses. Organized by the Sustainability Coalition with the Center for Sustainable Desi...

04/05/2019

From a Sir David Attenborough Netflix series to a food waste documentary produced by the late Anthony Bourdain, these five environmental doc

04/02/2019

Single-use plastic items will be banned in the European Union by 2021.

03/27/2019

As some rumours swirl around the internet that there will be more plastic than fish by 2050, there are also some great stories about local recycling, like this one about…

03/25/2019

BLUE WAVE GIVE AWAY!!! 🤩

Have you seen Pratt's Blue Wave? It is going to be displayed in our Brooklyn Campus throughout Green Week! Check it out! We are going to give away a super nice reusable water bottle for the person who gets the most likes on their picture with our plastic wave!
Tag us .prattinstitute and use the hashtags:

Also, don't forget to pledge to be PLASTIC FREE for this 14th Annual 2019 Green Week!
To sign up for our Pratt Plastic Pledge, go to: http://bit.ly/2Ulx7zf

03/23/2019

We are excited to start this conversation with our students and communities in at our Institute!
Join us in this discussion tomorrow at 3:45 PM in the auditorium of the Engineering Building. To check the schedule for the 9th Annual Sustainability Crash Course, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-crash-course-2019-tickets-58105081864.


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03/20/2019