Join your school's Green Team
Why This is Green
If you want to go green beyond your own home, consider joining your school’s Green Team. What this team is or does depends largely on the school and its community. It’s usually a few eco-interested parents who create an offshoot of the PTA. Sometimes a school has it’s own administration-sanctioned Green Team—a blend of parents and staff.
Whether your school has an informal or a highly organized group, it should be fairly easy to join the ranks once you express interest. Topics the Green Team may want to address include better school food, plant based industrial cleaners and hand soaps, recycling, safe art supplies, environmental health issues regarding the physical plant (including renovations and materials), and sustainable education. Kids of all ages tend to love to play an active role in helping their school benefit the environment. Getting students, faculty (both teaching and non-teaching staff), parents, and even local community members involved in is ideal.
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How To
If your school has a Green Team, join in! If there isn’t one, there are several organizations offering suggestions and resources to help interested people found one, including the National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools USA and the Healthy Schools Network.
Reach out to parents, kids, teachers, administrators, and local environmental organizations to help define what your Green Team’s mission is. And then get to work! Even in an eco-friendly environment, there’s always plenty to do.
