Get Your Green On

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Get Your Green On!
Presented by Pat Armillei Renee Devlin Nicole
Lieberman
National Science Teacher Association
Convention New Orleans March 2009
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MISSION STATEMENT

• To promote institutional and personal
  environmental responsibility within the school
  community. As well as encourage practices
  consistent with sustainable living including but
  not limited to conservation of resources, waste
  reduction and recycling, pollution prevention,
  increased reliance on renewable resources, and to
  recommend priorities for projects that may help
  the school district reduce its environmental
  impact.

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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

• The first organizational meeting took place in
  the Fall of 2006
• Teachers, support staff and administrators who
  demonstrated a passion for the Greening of our
  district were invited by our superintendent to
  this inaugural meeting
• This small group took the message back to their
  individual buildings
• The Green Team has expanded each year more
  teachers support staff community members were
  added and then representatives from each PTO or
  PTA came on board in the fall of 2007
• Every school in the district now has an
  ecology club
  including all of our elementary
  schools

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INVOLVEMENT

• Committees
• School Board
• PTO
• Maintenance
• ARAMARK (Cleaning Food Services)

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MEETINGS

• Bi-Annually
• Half Day
• During the School Day

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EDUCATE

• Students We infuse Environmental Best Practices
  throughout our curriculum In the words of one
  student
• Lets make a change in our homes, in our
  personal lives, and in our community. Lets make
  environmental action our new routine.
• Staff
• Parents
• Cleaning Crews

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GO GREEN!

• Communication is key!
• Council Rock's Go Green Website

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little steps

• Over the past three years, with support from the
  PTO, parents, teachers and students, each school
  within the Council Rock School District have
  initiated programs that have successfully shown
  how little steps can result in a big impact!

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ENERGY STAR

• Council Rock School District initiated an energy
  efficiency program in December 2005 when the
  school board passed a formal energy policy and an
  incentive program to share savings with
  individual schools

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BOARD POLICY

• Heating Season
• OCCUPIED
• Classrooms 68 - 72 F
• Offices 68 - 72 F
• Shower Room 72 - 76 F
• Halls Stairs 63 - 67 F
• Auditoriums 68 - 72 F
• Gymnasiums 65 - 68 F
• Pool 83 - 87 F
• UNOCCUPIED
• All Spaces 55 - 60 F

• Cooling Season
• OCCUPIED
• All Spaces 76 - 80 F

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ENERGY STAR

• Council Rock School District
• Educates staff
• Promotes its achievements through various media
  including newsletters, its web site,
  closed-circuit and public television broadcasts,
  committee meetings, and visits to schools
• This education is critical because the district
  has discovered that success in any particular
  building depends on the active involvement of
• Administration
• Teachers
• Students
• Building manager
• Custodians

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ENERGY MANAGEMENT

• Council Rock School District has been actively
  managing their energy consumption since December
  of 2005
• Through changes in the daily operation of every
  building across the district
• Council Rock has reduced their annual consumption
  of electricity and fossil fuels by nearly 40.
• This award winning energy management program has
  greatly contributed to the financial and
  environmental goals of the school district

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ENERGY MANAGEMENT

• Council Rock Gains National Recognition for
  Energy Conservation
• Awarded ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year 2008 for
  success in energy management in 2007
• Four students traveled to Washington, DC with a
  group of administrators, teachers and staff to
  accept the award on behalf of the district
• Read more about this prestigious award at
  http//www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?cpt_awards.20
  08_council
• Council Rock wins Energy Star Partner of the Year
  Award again in 2009!

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Energy Program ReportPerformance through
December 2008

• District Performance
• Financial savings 5,032,000
• 2008 2,875,679 billed energy costs
• Energy reduction 42.7
• 2007 34.1
• Environmental impact 24,278,000 lbs CO2
• Acres of trees planted 1,950
• Barrels of Oil 24,500
• Energy Star Rating 56

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ENERGY STAR REPORTS
Our Environmental Contribution
The Reduction of 24,278,000 Lbs of CO2
X 2,271 off of the road
Planting 1,950 acres of
X 1,340 powered for a year
24,500 Barrels of oil
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ENERGY STAR REPORTSMonthly Cost Savings
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ENERGY STAR REPORTSConsumption Reduction
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SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
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COST AVOIDANCE
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ACTIVITIES

• Annual Energy Logo Contest
• Energy Saving Contest 2009
• Essay Contest 2008
• Earth Day 2008
• 12th Annual Trash Art Contest at the Mall
• Tree Planting 2008
• Trout in the Classroom
• Meadows
• Carbon Footprint
• Character Activity
• Earth Summit (Washington, DC)

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LOGO CONTEST

• Use your Creative Energy to create an Energy
  Logo Design and Campaign Slogan for Council Rock
  becoming a Green District. The winning logo and
  energy slogan will be used to create a Green
  Calendar which
• will be used district wide
• during the 09-10 school
• year to promote energy
• conservation.

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ENERGY SAVING CONTEST IN CR

• Each school in the district will compete against
  one another to decrease their energy usage by the
  largest percentage from March 1st through the end
  of May
• The starting point for each building will be
  provided by Tom Schneider (head of facilities)
• The percentages will be computed when the time
  period is over and a winner announced

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ENERGY SAVING CONTEST IN CR What are we playing
for?

• Bragging rights and public recognition from the
  BOSS
• (no, not that BOSS--our boss)
• Saving kilowatt hours of electricity
• therefore conserving energy
• Reducing CO2 emissions
• thus helping the environment
• Saving money from the budget

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ENERGY ESSAY CONTEST

• Winning students went to Washington, D.C. last
  March along with administrators Green Team
  representatives to accept the Energy Star Award
  for the district and to read portions of their
  essays.

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EARTH WEEK

• Energy/Logo contest
• Plant Trees
• No drive week
• Students create their own Green Pledges
• Dark day
• Plastic bag petition
• Plant meadows
• Trash Art contest

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TRASH ART - 2008
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MORE TRASH ART
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TREE PLANTING
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TROUT IN THE CLASSROOM
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TROUT IN THE CLASSROOM
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PLANTING A MEADOW
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CARBON FOOTPRINT
Determine Your Carbon Footprint
Photo credit http//www.fotosearch.com/photos-im
ages
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CHARACTER ACTIVITY
Answer Sheet
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EARTH VISION SUMMIT

• Unites
• Young conservation leaders
• Government agency directors
• Elected officials
• Corporate executives
• Scientists
• Media personalities
• .......to craft citizen-driven solutions to
  todays environmental challenges

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CURRENT INITIATIVES

• Paper
• Reduction of Energy Consumption
• Waste Not Wednesdays
• Meadows
• Adopt a Highway
• Honey-Bee Mine
• Plastic Bags

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PAPER

• Double sided printing
• Paper purge
• School/community partnership
• e-Friday folders
• Use of metrics to track usage

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PAPER MARGINS

• Did you know that simply changing the margins of
  your paper before you print from 1.25 (the
  default) to .75 will result in 4.75 less paper
  used?
• For a single ton of paper, thats equivalent to
  19 reams, which is equivalent to 1.14 trees.
  Thats roughly equal to about 47.50 per ton of
  paper
• It all adds up
• You can check out the math at http//www.changeth
  emargins.com/

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GO GREEN ACTIVITY Paper Purge
WHEN April in-service day (22nd), approximately
1 hour (1PM to 2PM) WHAT Purge your filing
cabinets, clean out those boxes you never
unpacked from the renovation. This is your chance
to do some spring cleaning in celebration of CR
going Green. GOAL To see which IPC has the most
paper to recycle by volume. A multiplier will be
used for the smaller departments. For example the
3rd floor IPC east has 20 members whereas IA has
5 members therefore their boxes will be
multiplied by 4. PRIZES 1) Department with the
most recyclable paper wins a free department
breakfast. That is the total volume of recyclable
paper per IPC and all of the principals (as one
IPC). 2) Person who finds the oldest piece of
paper to recycle wins a prize, must have a date.
3) Person who finds the most non-school related
piece of paper to recycle wins a prize. JUDGES
Green Team leaders for each department will
submit their totals to Sue McCarthys office.
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ABITIBI
www.PaperRetriever.com
Recycling Scoreboard for CR-South HS
This is the equivalent of running 675,360 100
watt light bulbs for one hour!
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CONTINUED REDUCTION OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION

• Shut off lights
• Reduce the number of lights that are used
• Central command to shut off computers, monitors,
  and printers district wide
• Vending machine energy misers
• For more information go to
• Vending Machine Miser link
• Energy patrols

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WASTE NOT WEDNESDAYS

• Recyclables are collected
• Environmental tips
• school bulletin
• announcements

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MEADOWS

• Planting of meadows at every school
• Indigenous wildflowers
• Partner with local nature centers

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ADOPT A HIGHWAY
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HONEY-BEE MINE
http//www.ehow.com/how_2214229_help-save-honeybee
s.html
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PLASTIC BAGS
The Dangers of Plastic Bags
http//www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID/20080506/MULTIMEDIA02/80505016
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PLASTIC BAGS

• To Whom it May Concern,
• I am writing today to ask you to help pass a
  resolution that would ban the use of plastic bags
  in our state. Plastic bags are an unnecessary
  environmental hazard since many eco-friendly
  options exist like paper or canvas shopping bags.
• Every year, 15 billion pounds of plastic are
  produced in the U.S., but only 1 billion are
  recycled. At a time where many people are trying
  to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
  we are collectively using about 12 million
  barrels of oil to produce the plastic bags that
  are used each year. Many of these bags end up on
  the streets and sidewalks or caught in tree
  branches. Others wind up in rivers and streams,
  where they are washed out to sea.
• Once these bags end up in the oceans, they join
  other types of plastic trash from around the
  world and are often swept up in currents to make
  its way to enormous whirling eddies of trash. The
  largest, near Hawaii, is more than a thousand
  miles across and contains more plastic than
  plankton. Plastic bags and other bits of floating
  debris are mistaken for food by seabirds,
  turtles, and other marine life. Up to 1 million
  seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles
  die each year as a result of plastic debris.
• We can break ourselves of the plastic bag habit.
  Some governments and retailers have begun taking
  steps to phase out plastic bags. San Francisco
  banned them in 2007, and several countries have
  either banned or taxed the use of plastic bags.
  Whole Foods announced plans to drop plastic bags
  by Earth Day, 2008, and gives customers a small
  discount if they bring their own bags.
• I hope that our state can be another shining
  example of environmental responsibility. I
  encourage you to take a stand and add our state
  to the growing list of areas that are banning
  plastic bags.
• Thank You.

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COMMUNITY LETTER

• Dear ____________________________,
• The Council Rock School District in Bucks
  County, PA is leading the effort for schools, in
  conjunction with the community, to make our
  collective environments Greener Places to learn,
  live, and work. The districts mission is to
  have 16 greener schools we established a Green
  Team in 2003 to guide this effort. This team is
  made up of members from the entire community
  Council Rock community including students,
  teachers, support staff, administration, parents
  and school board members.
• This year several of the Green Team members will
  be speaking at the National Science Teachers
  Convention in New Orleans in March 2009. The
  presentation will share the how to of setting
  up a district-wide Green Team in any school
  system. Moving forward, we want to increase
  involvement not only of our school community but
  also reach out to corporations and the state
  legislature.
• We are reaching out to you, _______________ for
  support in our efforts. Here are our areas of
  interests
• Promoting Student Recognition (awards,
  scholarships)
• Promoting Sustainable Projects
• Promoting Community Service
• Promoting Awareness (guest speakers)
• Any other contribution (plant trees, be more
  energy efficient, donation of supplies, etc.)
• Our mission is clear as stated in our Green Team
  Mission Statement
• To promote institutional and personal
  environmental responsibility within the school
  community.  As well as encourage practices
  consistent with sustainable living including but
  not limited to  conservation of resources, waste
  reduction and recycling, pollution prevention,
  increased reliance on renewable resources, and to
  recommend priorities for projects that may help
  the school district reduce its environmental
  impact.
• If you are able to partner with us or would like
  additional information about our efforts please
  contact _________________, at (215) 944- 1168.
• Thank you in advance for your generosity and
  interest in our efforts.
• Sincerely,

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Global Warming Rally
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QUESTIONS
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