As the 40th anniversary of EarthDay approaches this April, schools may be seeking environmental service-learning projects to help celebrate the event. One of the easiest and most impactful sets of actions that students, schools, and communities can take to reduce the human impact on the environment is to reduce the amount of resources we waste, reuse materials and products rather than consuming disposables, increase the amount we recycle, and promote composting of organic materials (rot).
StopWaste.Org and the Alameda County Office of Education have collaborated for more than 10 years to implement the Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project. We are pleased to announce a new website to support waste reduction through service-learning by sharing the tools and resources we have developed over the years: http://schools.stopwaste.org
The site includes a number of features including:
· Educational videos to help teach the 4Rs (reduce, reuse recycle, rot)
· Highlights of best practices from partner schools
· A searchable database of teacher-generated service-learning lesson plans
· Toolkits for organizing campus-wide waste reduction campaigns
Visitors may register (for free) to download and use materials, contribute new ideas, and more.
Feedback is welcome to help improve this new website.
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Nate Ivy
Service-Learning Lead CalServe Region 4 | http://calservenetwork.org
Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project | http://schools.stopwaste.org
313 W. Winton Ave., Room 220
Ph: 510.670.4283
Fax: 510.670.4578
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