Hustle: How One High Schooler Turned Sustainability into a Side Hustle [Environmental Activism]

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– We found a lot of items of clothing. Like we’ll find swim trunks and jeans and tank tops. And like, where did they go without their clothes? We’re at Beach 17 right now. I’m in my room right now. We’re in BK Rot. I do beach clean-ups, library presentations, I rake leaves and put them in bags, plant daffodils, I speak in front of centers, I speak in front of council people. Repaint the park fences and the benches.

I set high goals for myself. Not a lot of teenagers my age really care like, they’ll like throw whatever they’re drinking on the floor and not really think twice about it. Like if you’re gonna give them a lecture, they’re probably gonna go on their phones and not listen to you.

So I’ll find the way to relate environmentalism to something that I have to do. So if one of my friends likes the beach, then I’ll be like, “Hey, we can be environmentalists together!” If you’re not educated you’re not gonna know what to do. If I’m curious about the environment,

Or if I’m curious about something else then I will probably go.. and ask questions. Why do you compost? So it’s kind of like an aging process? Why are they in rows? I can teach other people and I can do it myself. – A really big balloon. It has ice and water. – I don’t think anyone will wear it but it’s a nice hat. Hope will get you very far, I’ve learned that. Because if you have hope, then that will kind of give you a push. I guess to do what you need to do.

We once had a plastic bag, it was like a big bag, like with garbage bag, and it took five of us to pull it out. I know we should be thinking our future, but our present determines our future. Focusing on the present is gonna carry on behavior,

And it’s gonna carry on how we, I guess.. act toward the environment. And that’s how I hustle.