Petrichor is defined in the dictionary as a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. Often associated with themes of hope and redemption, the term was actually coined to describe the oil exuded by plants to safeguard their seeds.
Such was the warmth that weighed on the shoulders of five college students. After a course on Environmental Science, their eyes were opened to the reality of humanity's role in the destruction of our planet, most evidently seen in modern-day Philippines. The waste we generate is doing more damage than it is helping, and something needs to be done about it.
Everything that we do leaves waste. With everything that we do, we leave a trace of what we have done previously because of what we leave behind. And these things that we leave behind, tend to be left behind for hundreds or millions of years, without us even knowing it.
In Environmental Science, we have learned that this is wrong. Waste is neither worthless, defective nor of no use at all. We have seen this in different advancements in technology, such as those of the textile industry using used cotton, or the sculptures recently made by some of our classmates that have turned waste into art.
The Petrichor Project is an advocacy that believes in something bigger than ourselves. More than just consumers, we all exist to steward the only home we will ever have.
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