This year, Earth Day fell on Saturday, April 22. For most students, it is a holiday that is mostly ignored, since it doesn’t provide a day off from school. But for Liberty, Earth Day is about to mean something a lot more.

Instead of spending Earth Day on the couch, many Liberty students have risen to the challenge of helping the Earth, one step at a time. One group is Green Team, led by junior Nimra Sajeel.

“Green Team is planning a lot of stuff for Earth Day. We’re hoping to do several collaborations to encourage Liberty students to become more sustainable,” Sajeel said. 

Among these collaborations includes prospective post-AP exam competitions between the grades, as well as working with Liberty administration to implement new strategies in encouraging students to properly dispose of waste.

“I feel like Liberty students aren’t taking into account that supplies are limited. Putting entire rolls of toilet paper into the toilet isn’t funny, it’s disgusting and is only contributing to the problem of needless waste,” Sajeel said. 

Another student working to make Liberty greener is sophomore Seth Orton, who recently completed his Eagle Scouts project on the garden plots with the LRC class. If you would like to learn more about this project specifically, please refer below (or above, depending on page layout). 

“One of my motives for doing the project was that it was going to be beneficial to the students and to the area, since it was in need of some sprucing,” Orton said. “I hope that this is the start to even larger projects to make the surroundings look a lot nicer.”

However, both Orton and Sajeel agreed that more could be done at Liberty to help the planet.

“Most of all, I want to ask Liberty students to participate in fundraisers and petitions for climate change. Making a difference is in our hands now, so we have to get more involved,” Sajeel said.

As a final note, Green Team has one final request for Liberty students.

“Please pick up any trash you see around campus, so we can have a beautiful campus in the future. You need to clean up the trash yourself and be the bigger person,” Sajeel said.