Comments on: Clean and Green: District 3 schools unite to go green http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:37:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: public school student http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9030 public school student Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:21:42 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9030 This is great.. I hope it really happens :-) This is great.. I hope it really happens :-)

]]> By: queens parent http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9028 queens parent Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:57:35 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9028 Obviously, there is no one overseeing how much wasted energy is happening at area schools. PS 162 in Queens is lit up every night until morning. Every window all night long has a light on. In addition, the school has very bright lights everywhere outside the building and on the roof (even though there are street lights up and down this street). The lights certainly haven't helped with security, large groups of kids hang out there all night long because the lights are so bright they light up the basketball courts in the attached playground. Since there are no textbooks at this school, many assignments come home on xeroxed paper. Perhaps if the school invested in textbooks for our kids less paper would be needed, not to mention all those repetitive notices that I throw straight into the garbage. Going green sounds good but I doubt anything will actually change. Obviously, there is no one overseeing how much wasted energy is happening at area schools. PS 162 in Queens is lit up every night until morning. Every window all night long has a light on. In addition, the school has very bright lights everywhere outside the building and on the roof (even though there are street lights up and down this street). The lights certainly haven’t helped with security, large groups of kids hang out there all night long because the lights are so bright they light up the basketball courts in the attached playground. Since there are no textbooks at this school, many assignments come home on xeroxed paper. Perhaps if the school invested in textbooks for our kids less paper would be needed, not to mention all those repetitive notices that I throw straight into the garbage. Going green sounds good but I doubt anything will actually change.

]]> By: teresa arboleda http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9027 teresa arboleda Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:37:57 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9027 Getting involved in greening schools is vital to our children's future. Greening can be cost effective and will help to clean up the environment. Getting involved in greening schools is vital to our children’s future. Greening can be cost effective and will help to clean up the environment.

]]> By: Claiborne http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9026 Claiborne Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:24:54 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9026 This is great news! Getting kids on board to help will make these standards easier to implement, as well as teach kids a positive example they can bring home with them. Environmental awareness should be a basic part of schools' curricula at this point. I also find the styrofoam cafeteria trays distressing but wonder what a cost-effective alternative could be. And, I think everyone involved in school (teachers, parents, administrators) can cut way down on paper (and printer ink) use before we even get to the recycling stage. Doing so would be healthier for the environment and also help ease budgetary cuts a bit. This is great news! Getting kids on board to help will make these standards easier to implement, as well as teach kids a positive example they can bring home with them. Environmental awareness should be a basic part of schools’ curricula at this point.

I also find the styrofoam cafeteria trays distressing but wonder what a cost-effective alternative could be. And, I think everyone involved in school (teachers, parents, administrators) can cut way down on paper (and printer ink) use before we even get to the recycling stage. Doing so would be healthier for the environment and also help ease budgetary cuts a bit.

]]> By: A Parent http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9024 A Parent Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:55:48 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/08/03/d3-schools-unite-to-go-green/#comment-9024 I welcome this information. I have long been frustrated by the fact that my children's school recycles no paper! Yet they produce so much of it as waste. When anyone asks why, we're always told that the custodians won't accommodate recycling. It really is a crime, and such a bad example for our children. Also, those foam cafeteria trays are the worst. But apparently it costs money to switch to biodegradeable trays and any school that wants to do that must raise the funds itself. I think there should be mandates for schools to do this kind of recycling and environmentally responsible actions. I welcome this information. I have long been frustrated by the fact that my children’s school recycles no paper! Yet they produce so much of it as waste. When anyone asks why, we’re always told that the custodians won’t accommodate recycling. It really is a crime, and such a bad example for our children.

Also, those foam cafeteria trays are the worst. But apparently it costs money to switch to biodegradeable trays and any school that wants to do that must raise the funds itself.

I think there should be mandates for schools to do this kind of recycling and environmentally responsible actions.

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