Go Green Initiative School of the Week Oct. 22-26, 2007
On November 3, 2007, the City of Livermore, CA will receive the coveted "Go Green Small City of the Year" award at the upcoming Go Green Earth Summit. They were chosen from a pool of over 600 communities worldwide. The City has invested a great deal of resources in aiding their schools as they implement the Go Green Initiative, and the results are phenomenal!
This week's "Go Green Initiative School of the Week" goes to Leo Croce Elementary, one of our original Go Green schools that adopted the GGI in 2004.
As reported by the City of Livermore's Go Green Initiative coordinator, Dr. Carolie Sly, Croce Elementary is exemplary. She gave us a snapshot of the school's latest achievements:
"Leo Croce Elementary School in Livermore is a model Go Green site, which takes a systemic perspective. Under the leadership of teacher Pam Ferrucci, the students grow an extensive garden that, this time of year, produces lots of pumpkins for Halloween. The students make the food-to-cafeteria connection as they operate a full-blown cafeteria recycling program, weighing all the food and liquids they keep out of the waste stream. Some of that food goes back to the garden in the form of compost,; not only that but students' enthusiasm has spilled over to their homes so more parents report starting composting systems in their backyards. Classroom instruction is linked to the garden; science teachers like Pam use the garden to teach the principles of ecology and key science concepts. And, of course, they run a school-wide recycling program for paper, plastic water bottles, cell phones, batteries, and printer cartridges."
Way to go Croce Elementary...and way to go Livermore, CA!!!