Saul Talk

In this episode of Saul Talk, the Class of 2021 Natural Resources Management students at W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences explore proposed Greenhouse Gas Emissions reform in Pennsylvania as it relates to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI, is the first mandatory market-based program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is a cooperative effort among the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia to cap and reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector. By participating in RGGI Pennsylvania will reduce climate pollution from carbon emissions by a massive 188 million tons by 2030.

In this episode of Saul Talk, the Class of 2021 Natural Resources Management students at W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences continue to debate and explores Philadelphia Water Department's water quality and debates whether Bottled Water is better to use versus the Tap water that comes to your home. This episode also includes a PSA produced by the class of 2021 encouraging viewers to drink tap by conducting tap vs bottled water taste test.

In this episode of Saul Talk, the Class of 2021 Natural Resources Management students at W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences explores Philadelphia Water Department's water quality and debates whether Bottled Water is better to use versus the Tap water that comes to your home. This episode also includes an in-depth conversation with the Philadelphia Water Department's Public Affairs  Community Outreach Specialist.

Class of 2021 Natural Resource Management student speak openly about their reaction to January 6, 2021, White House insurrection after watching in real time together in class.

The Class of 2021 Natural Resource Management students openly discusses their reactions to the impact of George Floyd's death, the Derek Chauvin verdict, and how social and news media, public protests, and the #blacklivesmatter movement has influenced their opinions and perceptions.

In this episode of Saul Talk, the Class of 2021 Natural Resources Management students at W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences continue their  Environmental Justice discussion by showcasing organizations in Philadelphia that are actively addressing, advocating, educating our community about how disproportionately communities of color and lower social-economic status are impacted by systemic environmental issues. This episode includes an in-depth conversation with the Policy and Program Coordinator of Environmental Justice for the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability.

On this Earth Day premiere episode of Saul Talk, the Class of 2021 Natural Resources Management students at W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences discuss how Environmental Issues disproportionality affect communities of color as a result of systemic racism. Students explore how decades of red-linning and the current COVID-19 epidemic further exposes the inequalities associated with environmental injustices in communities of lower social-economic status.

Saul Talk is a series of discussions featuring the thoughts and words of W.B. Saul High School’s Class of 2021 Natural Resource Management students. Saul Talk focuses on, addresses, and provides possible solutions to environmental issues as it relates to climate change, water quality, waste management, and environmental injustices to name a few. It is our goal at Saul Talk to educate our Philadelphia community about these topics in order to create change and improve the state of our city and planet at large. We at Saul Talk believe everyone can participate and contribute towards correcting our environmental wrongs and problems because every day is Earth Day.

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