Earth Day: How local kids are teaching other kids how to save the planet

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Natalie Decker’s love for the environment is a family affair. Her mom drilled it in her head since she was a little girl but it didn’t always stick.

“I kind of rejected the sustainable lifestyle for a really long time because I grew up right next to it. My mom was constantly shoving things down my throat and as a teenager I wanted to completely be opposite of what she did so I didn’t really like it until I figured it out on my own,” says Decker.

She’s all in now and for a second year in a row she’s the president of Beaches Go Green at Ponte Vedra High School.