By Scott Seckel | ASU Now via Pinal Central
Ready for some good news for a change?
We thought so.
The global pandemic shutdown has produced some positive environmental effects. The Himalayas can be seen for the first time in 30 years because air pollution has cratered in India. The Venetian canals are sparkling because no boats are churning up silt.
Here in the Valley, people are getting to know their neighbors, enjoying the natural world, making furry new friends, gardening and finding out life can be lived differently.
ASU Now asked Mick Dalrymple, director of University Sustainability Practices at Arizona State University, and his colleague Alana Levine, who directs the university’s Zero Waste and Grounds Services, what silver linings they’ve noticed since the beginning of the pandemic.