Leave it Better focuses on improving environmental sustainability and awareness by telling the stories of people who are making positive impacts on the environment. They believe that often when people hear about the environment, they hear about the massive problems- oil spills, contaminated air, toxic runoff in waters. While these types of stories are important because they bring about awareness of vital problems, Leave it Better believes that if people only hear about large problems, over time, they will become apathetic and despondent. People cannot stop believing that they, as humans, can have a positive impact.
Leave It Better focuses on the solutions. Stories about local, ecological agriculture, collectives that recycle and repair broken electronics, students building gardens and growing food, fashion designers opting to reuse fabrics, community members cleaning up neglected land, farmers selling food directly to their community, non-profit organizations that champion clean air and water, young people choosing a life rooted in healthy work outside.
Leave it Better wants to showcase that there are a lot inspiring people doing a lot of direct actions to heal our environment. Humans are able to play a positive role in the planet’s ecology. Everyone can do something to have a positive impact, and everyone influences far more than they realize. Leave It Better’s role is to shine a bright light on those growing an active and healthy world. They make several videos that showcase environmental issues and the people who are working to end them as one tool to raise awareness of positive environmental change. 
Leave it Better also features a subsection called the Leave it Better Foundation, which runs educational program that’s running in 11 schools around New York City and teaches kids about urban farming. Their aim is to build students’ connections to the environment through hands-on work with sustainability. In addition to these tangible agricultural practices, Leave It Better provides students with small HD cameras and teach video literacy, so that students are able to communicate what they learn with friends, family, teachers and the extended Leave It Better community.
By: Christopher Ewell, AGS on August 4, 2015