Arjun Desai is a high school senior from Shreveport, Louisiana. This is his fourth year on Project Green Schools’ National Youth Council, having served as Vice President and News Editor over the past two years. At the local level, Arjun serves as the president of his school’s environmental advocacy club, or Greens Club. As president of the club, Arjun has been involved in diverse projects. He’s been knee-deep in water cleaning trash from the local river, planted gardens in the shape of a butterfly to help with monarch migration, even assisted with fundraisers to raise one million dollars to buy a local nature trail that is slated for urban development, and collected thousands of beads in a Mardi Gras bead drive for reuse and recycling which would have otherwise filled Louisiana landfills. Additionally, multiple times each week for the past four years, he has collected paper, plastic bottles, bottle caps, and cardboard for recycling and composting, diverting thousands of pounds of recyclable materials from landfills to more sustainable means. Arjun has also received hundreds of dollars in grants for his indigenous plant project and established native gardens and pollinator patches. As President of the National Youth Council, Arjun hopes to expand his current project with indigenous plants and further efforts to curb climate change.