Firsthand Learning

🌍 Enroll into free 6-Week Soil Stewards WNY Course

Join this free 6-week e-learning Soil Stewards course with lessons and activities about soil health, pollution prevention, and organic waste management. Topics include: food waste prevention strategies, landfill diversion practices, and community action. The program includes two hands-on in-person sessions on weekends, and four virtual live trainings on weekday evenings. Participants 18 and older from Erie County (NY) & the City of Buffalo are welcome to apply. Applications close March 25, 2025.

Funding provided by the NYS Pollution Prevention Institute through a grant from the Environmental Protection Fund as administered by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. Any opinions, findings, and/or interpretations of data contained herein are the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the opinions, interpretations or policy of Rochester Institute of Technology and/or its NYS Pollution Prevention Institute, or the State.

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“Thank you so very much for our laboratory materials. We completed the Surface Features Laboratory Topic 5 session. The students were so excited and engaged. They worked for the whole period, thank you so much! I know you were very conscientious in making sure we received the supplies on time.”
- Ms. Nieves, Buffalo Public Schools 🦬

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