Greeley Building and Planning Team publishes newsletter on sustainability
April 30, 2010
by the Greeley Building and Planning Team
The Greeley Building and Planning Team (BPT), a group consisting of students, parents, faculty and administrators who discuss and carry out projects, hope to make the Greeley community a better place.
For the past two years, we have been collaborating with STOP (Students and Teachers for Our Planet) and Silent Earth to make the school more sustainable. Our latest projects have been researching solar energy and working with the district during an Energy Audit.
In the near future, Greeley is putting in solar panels and a wind turbine to power a few classrooms. It may not seem like much, but every little bit is progress.
We must all contribute: by recycling, closing windows and doors, turning off faucets . . . We can ALL make a difference!
Read up on what STOP and Silent Earth are doing and contribute to their fundraising efforts. Join us on the BPT, or tell your friends and siblings to join next year!
This newsletter is meant to spread information and ideas about what YOU can do to help. We hope you take some of these ideas to heart.
To view the Greeley BPT newsletter on sustainability, click HERE.
The members of the Greeley Building and Planning Team are Isabel Reich, Lexi Joondeph-Breidbart, Bran Shim, Noah Shaw, Austin Blumenfeld, Steffi Green, Madeline Rivlin, Maude Bailey, Heidi Fuhrman, Alison Wintner and Tina Rosenberg.
When the town board pulled back from its proposal to save taxpayers $200,000 by going from two garbage pickups per week to one, Robin Stout said, “I am in favor of one garbage and one recycling pick-up per week. As I study this issue, I find that it is the right thing to do as an environmental matter, even putting the finances aside. The wave of the future will be to recycle and reuse more, and to consume and expend less. Perhaps the young people of New Castle should have a chat with their parents about this.” Perhaps Greeley’s STOP students are these young people. Help! Teach the community before the next budget go-around that every bit helps!
Kids, teach the town to do with one garbage pick up and one recycling pick up per week. Save $200K, plus it will tighten up our recycling habits!
At that great movie, “No Impact Man,” at the library last week, a woman suggested that you kids run a clothing sale in which you all contribute the clothes you no longer fit or want, sell them all to one another and give the money to charity, or to finance the efforts of your STOP group. There’s usually a teachers’ union tag sale at the high school at the end of the school year, kind of low-key. How about really beefing that one up with the addition of your clothing??!?!?!
