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Converting Waste to Fuel for Families in Africa
Sunday, April 1 2012 | by jkay
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For 2011 Switzer Fellow Jeannette Laramee, it all started with designing a school in Zambia, Africa. That led to building systems that make biogas.
Lead-based paint enjoyed widespread use up until 1978. In her effort to save a species, Switzer fellow Myra Finkelstein uses the latest scientific tools to pinpoint crumbling paint as the source of painful diseases, crippling wing mutations, and early death in albatross chicks.
Diesel-powered vehicles are a significant source of pollution, impacting health and contributing to climate change. The Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative, a coalition of community, environmental advocacy and public health departments, is working together with the Pacific Institute to reduce the impact of this pollution on low-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Switzer Fellow Amanda Martinez is a journalist, an intern at NPR and a science writing masters student at MIT. When she was offered the chance to join a team of scientists in the Gulf of Mexico, she used some of her Switzer funding to test and expand her new skills. Amanda shares steps that scientists can take to help journalists successfully tell the story of their research.