Accomplishments:
Here are some of the things that we have accomplished in the Fall 2007 semester:
1. Became a member in the Green Schools Program (run by the Seeds Foundation) and the Sustainable High Schools program (run by the Sierra Club of BC).
2. Created an eco-action website.
3. Drafted Bodwellfs first school-wide official Sustainability Policy.
4. Our ESL Science students decorated paper recycling boxes for each classroom.
5. Collected information about the heating and cooling systems of the physical building, and began to collect and analyze data on electricity use from BC Hydro and natural gas consumption data from Terasen Gas.
6. Offered Environmental Science 11 on the course selection list for January 2008 and advertised this course throughout the school. Course did not have sufficient enrolement. We will try again in the summer 2008 semester!
7. In addition to our Recycling Club, we arranged a new recycling pick-up service with the North Shore Recycling Program.
8. Began to collect data on copier paper consumption.
9. In 2007, through our paper recycling efforts with Urban Impact Recycling Ltd., we diverted 211 cubic yards of recyclable materials from landfill (a volume that would fill 105 full sized pickup trucks). These recycling efforts saved 35 tonnes of carbon emissions.
- What are we going to do next?
- What is a Green School?
- What is a Sustainable High School?
- What is MISSION INSIDE-OUT?
