EJSHS Green Team

Monday, October 18, 2010

This weekend i did a water audit on how much water my family uses per day. We use around 528 liters per day. One way we could cut down on the water useige is to not take as long as a shower

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Our Goals...

Focus 1: Reduce the amount of solid waste going into the landfill
-Food waste will be processed (composted) mechanically and naturally with the aid of worms
-Paper waste will be used in the vermicomposting process and in large scale composting
-Recyclable materials such as aluminum, glass, and tin will be collected and transported to recycling centers

Focus 2: Provide Environmental education with hands-on learning systems
-maintain a 30x40 greenhouse; emphasize sustainability in the form of reduction, reuse, and recycling organic material
-maintain an adjacent garden; emphasize the use of organic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc.
- produce high quality produce that can be distributed community wide.

Focus 3: Provide students with practical entrepreneurship opportunities
-form an E-business that produces, packages, and ships merchandise from the projects (fertilizer, worms, produce)
-maintain and update business website
-manage accounts receivable/payable

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