Category: Special Features— a page dedicated to showcasing Environmental Science research projects
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Rain Gardens and Their Impacts
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Rain gardens are a nature-based climate solution that improves water quality and manages stormwater runoff. A shallow depression planted with plants and grasses, designed to capture runoff from roofs, roads, and parking lots, allows water to slowly infiltrate into the soil rather than flow directly into storm drains(Ground Water Foundation, 2026). It acts like a…
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Be moral, Choose Natural: Living Shorelines over artificial Bulkheads
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In recent years, a technology has been developed and invested in, and it could shatter a near-multi-billion-dollar industry: bulkhead and shoreline protection getting replaced by natural solutions and living shorelines. Bulkheads are something that many see possibly daily and don’t think twice, as they are just deemed the norm now and thought to not affect…
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Electric Buses Shaping our Environment
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In today’s world, I believe that electric buses are a great climate solution because they are replacing standard-issue gas-powered buses, which release harmful pollutants into the air, which affects greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution. When digging through peer-reviewed research that was conducted about the benefits of switching to electric-powered school buses, it showed…
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Power on Water: The Future of Floating Solar Panels
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In today’s world, when people talk about bettering water quality and helping the environment, they substantially regard artifacts such as Green Infrastructure, Natural Filters, and Modern Wastewater Treatment Plants; but one thing that is thoroughly undermined and should be paid more attention to is the benefits of Floating Solar Panels. Being established in 2007, Floating…
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Lawrenceville’s Commitment to Sustainability and Resilience of Nature-Based Solutions Today
What Lawrenceville is already doing The effects of climate change are getting worse day by day, encouraging communities, schools, and institutions to help stop the severity of the effects climate change has caused. One of the primary ways to fight climate change is through the implementation of nature-based interventions. At The Lawrenceville School, projects have…
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LEEDing an Electric Life
PSA: Don’t show your parents this article! Imagine if they had an app that showed how much electricity you used and when you used it? That is all possible through electrification. Electrification of buildings is a relatively new and unknown idea for the general public that shows great promise for the future. As more and…
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Geo-Exchange: Optimizing Energy Efficiency and Reducing Natural Gas
Geo-exchange heating and cooling uses the Earth’s stable underground temperatures to efficiently regulate indoor climates. In a nutshell, the system extracts heat from the ground and transfers it indoors in the colder months and removes heat from the building and releases it into the ground in warmer months. This process relies on underground piping…
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Turning a Leaf: A Case for Where Lawrenceville Sources Food and Agriculture Practices
Did you know redesigning agriculture can reduce carbon, and methane emissions without harming the overall economy or the farmlands output? (En-Roads, 2025) Some regenerative agriculture techniques, such as crop rotation prevent soil deterioration and thus increase outputs compared to less sustainable techniques (Skinner, 2022). If agriculture is managed properly it can even combat climate change…
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Decrease oil, increase EVs/EV infrastructure and vehicles.
Stance: Decrease oil, increase EVs/EV infrastructure and vehicles. contact option: Mr. Josh Hahn, Assistant Head of Hotchkiss School (formerly worked at Lville) on EV infrastructure. Article: According to the EV Charging Summit, “the cost of batteries for electric vehicles has dropped more than 80% since 2012” (EV Charging Summit, 2023). This cost reduction has helped…
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The Future Of EV Transportation: How The Hotchkiss School is Charging Forward
Gas vehicles account for a major part of CO2 emissions and have proven to have a negative effect on the environment by contributing to global warming. Electric vehicles (EVs) are a simple solution that countries such as China are quickly shifting towards, making sales of gas vehicles prohibited in certain areas. One common reason for…
