The document outlines initiatives by the Manchester Essex Regional School District Green Team to promote sustainability. It discusses the Green Team's mission to increase environmental stewardship. It also summarizes district programs like single-stream recycling, composting, and reducing paper usage. The document describes two Green Scholars courses that integrate STEAM skills and service learning through student projects in areas like edible schoolyards, greenhouses, and sustainable food waste management. It positions the courses as preparing students with 21st century skills to address environmental challenges. In the last slide, it invites questions about adapting the Green Scholars program to other school districts.
Megan Azadian was able to run the waste management testing in the park big belly trash can recycling took tests with varying numbers of disposal units She discovered that having no trash cans was the most effective
One of Last year projects was to create a geodesic dome to increase harvest time
Becomes compost at another farm and developing an onsite composter. Saves the school money in the long run.
Faculty – What they buy use in class and paper reduction energy conservation using the building effectively waste management moving away from textbooks and think more outside of the boxDavid – all the things that we purchase from paper to expo markers and trying to find sustainable source like refillable markers to reduce consumption
Green Students – James – changing consumerism behavior in students vote with ur dollar shoes food ect displays his info around the building with pre and post surveys Nicole and Shawna
