Sunday, September 20th and Monday, September 21st may have seemed regular days to most New Yorkers spread across the city's five boroughs. However, on the intersection of 6th Avenue and 32nd Street, a special new environmental event was taking place to introduce and promote Team Earth. It was a privilege not only to witness, but also participate in, this presentation as a student reporter given full professional reporting access and opportunities.

During the first day, successful origami folding learning tables were set up around Greeley Square as a means of attracting a mostly young audience to help raise awareness of Team Earth's aims and projects. The passersby, whose curiosity was aroused by the event, were taught by passionate origami-loving OrigamiUSA organization volunteer members to make various interesting paper objects. In addition, it was fascinating to admire origami artist Robert Lang at work as he spent the entire day working in collaboration with Linda Tomoko Mihara on a forest set hand made entirely of paper; a project that Ms. Mihara said took "two 12-hour days worth of work to complete."

The next day, my fellow reporters and I listened to the scheduled introductory presentation of Team Earth with speeches by co-founder and CEO of Conservation International Peter A. Seligmann, chairman and CEO of SC Johnson, H. Fisk Johnson, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana, and many more Team Earth collaborating partners. After these the true symbolism and significance of the origami forest was revealed with a short skit, during which the set was demolished with electric saws. Just as the hundreds of years a tropical forest takes to grow are ignored and forgotten when deforestation takes place, the paper forest was similarly destroyed in only a few seconds after it had taken those two 12-hour working days.

Shortly after the open press conference, my classmates had the unique opportunity of personally interviewing Hollywood actor and member of the Board of Directors of Conservation International, Harrison Ford. Thibaut Dupuy, a fellow classmate, and I, attainted a five-minute interview with the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, who was clearly pleased to engage with student reporters such as us. He happily answered all our questions in detail, enlightening us on his personal positive views of Team Earth and the involvement goals he hopes to achieve with the Co-operative Republic of Guyana.