We had a wonderful morning at Bryker Woods Elementary school (close to Central Market north) and were amazed at their green projects. This school, teachers, staff, students, and their parents are just amazing.
Here are a few outstanding things we saw:
- solar cells: they provide power for 1 entire classroom, how cool is that??!!!
- compost: the school has reduced lunch waste from 17 bags to 3 everyday, amazing!
- no more plastic cutlery in the cafeteria
- party pack and compost bucket to borrow for school parties or birthday parties
- walk and bike to school with a log in system for students who bike to school, this way parents know when their child arrived at school safely
- waste free school family picnic
I am all inspired by Bryker Woods elementary school.
We can learn a lot and I hope we will see some changes at BCE in the next school year!
It needs a whole school to go Green. Let's get moving to Green!!!
Birgit, I'd love to learn more about the party pack and compost bucket to borrow for school parties/birthday parties. Any information you could share would be awesome! For the past year we've started very small but are now ready to grow some real change at my daughter's school. I chair the Recycling & Education Committee as there was nothing of the sort and I feel so strongly about the issue. We've wanted to change the amount of trash that piles up after a classroom birthday party. Please email me at kristie@kindlivingdesigns.com. Thank you and congrats on many success and good luck on the many to follow!
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