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IST 605: Sustainability for Young Adults & Adolescents

A guide for High School and College Students, and those who teach them, to find information about improving our environment through individual actions.

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Relevant Search Terms for this subject include: Recycle, compost, sustainable, climate, global warming, microplastic, trash, worm composting, vermicompost, reduce, reuse, repurpose, pollution, adolescent, teenage, youth, community gardening, environmental activism

For more complete results, try words like recycle as "recycl*" so you receive results for recycling, recycle, and recycled (although some databases, like Science Direct, do not support truncation.)

Search Engine Strategies: use words like teen, adolescent or youth rather than children or kids so you receive results more suited for high school & college students. 

All searches: Limit results to the last few years, possibly from 2020 on, as climate research is occurring continuously and the science and statistics may quickly become outdated.