Green & Healthy

Being a Green & Healthy Encompasses Three Large Goals:   

• Reducing Environmental Impacts and Costs

  • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions - add renewable and green energy (solar)

  • Improve water quality, efficiency, and conservation

  • Reduce solid and hazardous waste through recycling and composting

  • Expand the use of alternative transportation and energy-efficient options (walking, biking, etc.)

• Improving Health and Wellness

  • High standards of Whole School Whole Community, Whole Child health, including health, nutrition, and outdoor physical education; health, counseling, and psychological services for both students and staff and family community involvement

  • An integrated school environmental health program - considerations during design, construction, renovation, operations, and maintenance of facilities and grounds, including cleaning and maintenance; mold and moisture; chemical and environmental contaminants; ventilation; and pests and pesticides.

 

• Increasing Environmental Literacy

  • Interdisciplinary learning about the key relationships between dynamic environmental, energy, and human systems
  • Use of the environment and sustainability to develop STEM content knowledge and thinking skills to prepare graduates for the 21st-century technology-driven economy
  • Development of civic engagement knowledge and skills and students' application of such knowledge and skills to address sustainability issues in their community