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Staying Green in the Summer
August 3rd, 2012 by ACE Field Correspondent
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ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
Getting creative with paper recycling + other projects
June 21st, 2011 by ACE Field Correspondent
By Naomi Smith George and Arianna Pincay, juniors at World Journalism Preparatory School in Queens, New York.
Our environmental club started off the past school year with a ton of ideas about how to green up our campus and involve our peers along the way – but one project jumped out at us above all others: fixing our recycling program.
Students and teachers at our school had the bad tendency to throw garbage into the recycling bins. We decided to address this problem by using cardboard to make lids for the bins and cutting slots in them so that people could only put paper in them.
In most classrooms the students and faculty paid attention to the lids and our efforts of keeping garbage out of the recycling bins were really working! However, in the other classrooms some of the bins lids were ripped, broken, and mis-used.
So, we established a plan to use the ACE Action Grant that we won to buy supplies for decorating the lids. This way people would pay more attention to them and hopefully respect them and use them properly. Our whole club has been completely dedicated to making these lids. We have all given up our lunch and after school time to make and repair them to help the students and faculty of our school to properly recycle.
In addition to decorating the bin lids, we have further plans to decorate the bins themselves. We hope that this will help the bins to stand out as both functional and as pieces of artwork, and thus increase recycling participation at our school. Since we have nearly come to the end of the year, we hope to save this decorating activity for the upcoming year.
In addition to this project, we have a few more to share with you before summer gets into full swing…
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ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
Rosemead HS rocks four days of Earth-friendly fun
May 12th, 2011 by ACE Alumni
by Jacquelyn Duong, ACE Field Correspondent and student at Rosemead High School in Rosemead, CA
As an effort to spread environmental consciousness, the Ecology Club at Rosemead High School hosted an Eco Awareness Week. Each day focused on a different issue. Even those who aren’t in the Action Team were eligible to participate in our event! Despite some difficulties during the week, students persevered and proved themselves to be as environmentally friendly as possible.
Monday, April 18th was dedicated to paper waste, one of the most problematic issues in today’s world. We placed stickers on all the paper towel dispensers in the bathrooms on campus (at left Ecology Board member Howard Luu shows off one of our stickers on the back of his phone). These stickers caused students to become aware of how much they were actually using, thus promoting the conservation of paper towels – in fact each sticker can save up to 100 pounds of paper a year.
The issue for Tuesday, April 19th was plastic conservation. Each person who gave the Eco officers a plastic bottle would be entered in a raffle. The prizes were 4 BPA-free reusable bottles. We managed to fill about an entire bin with plastic bottles! The lucky winners were chosen at the following general meeting.
The most successful day was Wednesday, April 20th which focused on transportation…
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Locke School Green Team goes big!
March 22nd, 2011 by ACE Field Correspondent
This is a guest post by Joaquin S. and Maciej K., both seventh grade leaders of the Locke School Green Team in Chicago, Illinois
Throughout life, words will not lead us, only dreams will. Determination and dedication is the key to successful teamwork, and this is what made our Locke School Green Team what it is today.
The Locke School Grean Team has accomplished some amazing feats over the past two years. See how we turned our school’s failing paper recycling score (41%) into a huge victory — we now recycle 163% of our target amount of paper — and how we’ve increased our membership as well as raised awareness about our environment in our school and community.
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ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
Sanford High School secures win in Amazing ACE Race
January 24th, 2011 by Rouwenna
Written by Jen Halstead, Sanford Environmental Club President, Sanford, Maine.
Two years ago, I joined Sanford High School’s Environmental Club and became our un-official president. I got wind of ACE and we entered the Amazing ACE Race competition last fall. We took on a series of successful projects, from a DOT project to a school-wide, and roaringly successful, Green Week.
This spring, we’re planning a Green Fashion Show, another Green Week and a vamped up DOT project. Watch our video to see what we accomplished around our school…
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fashion, green, high school, Maine, new england, Sanford, week
Rouwenna is the Regional Manager for ACE Northeast and Ohio. She is inspired daily by the amazing work her team is doing to empower young, climate-driven leaders. In addition to loving her job, she loves mountains, dancing, and listening to great tunes.
Small steps – and my own green blog
January 4th, 2011 by ACE Field Correspondent
By ACE Field Correspondent, Elizabeth Ridolfi, and student at Placer High School in Auburn, CA
I always thought my family and I had lived a fairly green lifestyle – from buying local foods to recycling and composting. That is, until I calculated my ecological footprint through my AP Environmental Science class.
The results hit me hard – if everyone on earth lived my lifestyle, we’d need 5.17 earths. I had a long way to go to… and so began a journey to reduce my footprint.
Over the next three months, I made small changes and even started start my own environmentally themed blog. The results are in and here’s what I’ve accomplished…
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blog, DOT, environment, footprint, green
ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
Christmas is red, but will yours be ‘green’??
December 10th, 2010 by ACE Alumni
“It’s like going to Burger King and asking for a Whopper with a wrapper, but no Whopper.”
Are you looking for ways to ‘green’ your holidays? We missed a Chanukah Hot DOT, and we might not have a Festivus, but here you are with a few ideas to green Christmas.
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Cash for green projects?
October 25th, 2010 by ACE Field Correspondent
Looking for some cash for your next Action Team project? ACE can help you!
We’re awarding 2 $2,500 Action Grants to help you take on your next carbon-reducing, awareness-raising project – anything from implementing a recycling program to installing water filters at school.
Click here to get started!
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ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
(Not) Waiting on the World to Change
October 4th, 2010 by Daniela
“It’s hard to be persistent when we’re standing at a distance, so we keep on waiting on the world to change…”
What does John Mayer have to do with anything? Well, he brought this blog post upon himself when he decided to debut one of my favorite songs, Waiting on the World to Change, in 2006.
Honestly, whenever I hear this song, my mind is unfailingly drawn to global warming. Here’s why…
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Daniela is an undergraduate at Columbia University and an Alumna of the Harker Upper School in San Jose, CA. She's on the Youth Advisory Board at ACE and is a co-founder of SmartPowereEd.org
Biobus Adventure: What Makes The Best Breakfast?
August 2nd, 2010 by ACE Alumni
Instead of eating our usual breakfast, we grabbed some fried plantains and Central American pastries in South L.A., while also feeding the bus a little good morning grease… (video inside)
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ace, alliance for climate education, biobus, climate, co2, DOT, education, green, vegetable oil