Who are we?

• We are a group of parents, teachers, and staff members committed to:
  • Helping to reduce our school’s impact on the environment; and
  • Educating our school community about the importance of environmental issues.

Green team mission:

• To reduce the environmental impact of our school and to teach our students to be good stewards of the Earth

Green Team accomplishments over the past two years:

• Educated Students & Staff about recycling, increased our recycling rate from 18 to 43%
• Drastically reduced the fliers from outside organizations
• Added milk carton recycling
• Changed from styrofoam trays to reusable lunch baskets
• Converted to paperless Informer and added regular "Green Tips"
• Applied for and received Seed Award and Sustainable Award from Dept of Ecology.With themoney we purchased recycling bins for teachers, environmental books for the library, and reusable party ware.
• Recycling bins to be included at all school events (ie Carnival)
• Recognized by King County as a LEVEL TWO GREEN SCHOOL!!!
• Formed a Student Green Team called Earth Helpers. Students have educated the school about less lunch waste, reusable water bottles, and energy conservation.
• Held a clean air campaign and became a no-idle school zone.

Earth Helpers will:

• Continue collecting empty energy bar wrappers for Terracycle (2 cents back per wrapper!)
• Reinforce no-idling policy.
• Bring food scrap recycling to our school.

What’s next?

• Continue to Improve Recycling Rates to at least 50% by creating a recycling movie for the school and by starting food scrap recycling.