Sanju Patel

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Internship with GreenPlaces

Business for Good and Operating a Sustainable Company In the fall, Durham Academy partnered with Green Places, a Raleigh-based company, to measure our carbon footprint. Paul Wang, CJ Nwafor, Owen Brent-Levenstein, and I decided to continue working with them as summer interns. We started in the middle of July, meeting with Green Places’ head of …

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How Far We Went: On the Roads and in the Classroom

DA Minibus

Durham Academy is measuring its carbon footprint with the help of Green Places, a Raleigh-based carbon monitoring company. This partnership is supported by the SustainABLE DA Innovation Grant that began July 1.  The commitment by the Administrative Team inspired us, the students working on sustainability.  We knew we needed all hands on deck to get …

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Summer Camp Goes Green

child's drawing

By Sanju Patel ’23 and Miller Roessler ’24 This summer, Miller Roessler and I have partnered with the Evergreen Summer Camp, DA’s all day summer camp for kids ages 4 through 13. Our goal was to develop curriculum about sustainability for the campers, as well as running the compost program at summer camp. Miller and …

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