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Buried Underground: Silicon Valley’s Polluted History
How “green” do you think Santa Clara Valley is? We may have excellent recycling and composting programs, but Santa Clara County also has the most contaminated sites of any county in the nation! In this course you will learn all about Silicon’s Valley’s history of pollution from the 1950s to the present.
Locations: Los Gatos, In-Home, Online
Cost: $110/hr
Recommended hours: 6
Goals:
- Explore the history of tech manufacturing and associated pollution in Silicon Valley
- Understand the basics of how to read scientific papers
- Discuss the role of activists in environmental causes