Monday, September 19, 2011

Be the Change Grant Finalist!

Great news!  We have been selected as a finalist for the 'Be the Change Grant." We received this grant last year for the Plant Your Butts Here campaign. This year, we wrote a grant to begin Bokashi composting at our school to be a food-waste free school. Three of our students learned how to make Bokashi at the Service Learning conference they attended last spring.

The girls invited to a finalist interview on September 25. Wish them luck!
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September 2013, ADOPT A BLOCK

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Do you know about Non-Source Point pollution?

Whether you have a stream running through your backyard, business, local school or park, protecting it is a good idea. Many property owners upstream may not realize that what they do on their land impacts other residents and water quality downstream. Every day pollutants such as trash, yard waste (e.g., grass clippings, leaves, prunings, or fruits), paint, construction debris (e.g., stockpiles of soil, sand, or gravel), used motor oil, fertilizers and pesticides, and dog waste reach our urban streams. Trash on stream banks are unsightly and unsanitary for humans and wildlife. Even organic materials such as yard waste are unacceptable to dump along streams banks. When these materials get into the stream cycle, they decompose and eliminate critical, life-giving oxygen from the water. As a result, streams become unsightly and emit foul odors.