Arbor Bay School Youth Climate Ambassadors Mira Bhatt and Katinka Lennemann of Carlmont High School developed an edible garden and composting tumblers.
Arbor Bay School Youth Climate Ambassadors Mira Bhatt and Katinka Lennemann of Carlmont High School developed an edible garden and composting tumblers.
The winners of the San Mateo County Office of Education’s Sustainable and Climate Resilient Schools Challenge awards were announced Monday, June 21, honoring 20 schools for their work to create sustainable campus environments.
Five $500 awards from Peninsula Clean Energy will be distributed among seven of the 20 winners to help move the projects into their next phase.
At Arbor Bay School, a K-8 school in San Carlos, Youth Climate Ambassadors Mira Bhatt and Katinka Lennemann of Carlmont High School developed an edible garden and composting tumblers.
Concerned about the environmental dangers of plastic bag use, the Millbrae Leos Club partnered with Trex Lumber on the NexTrex plastic recycling program which awards the city with a plastic bench for every 500 pounds of plastic recycled.
Design Tech High School’s Green Team conducted a campuswide environmental baseline assessment which led to improvements of the school’s waste system resulting in a 242% increase in waste diversion.
At Carlmont High School, the Green Team and Associated Student Body Human Relations Committee collaborated on a community garden and will split an award with the DIY Earthcycle Club which taught the community about upcycling.
An award will also be split between two San Mateo-Foster City School District schools. Audubon Elementary School’s Jennifer Young led her students through an energy survey, resulting in the students creating model energy-efficient homes. Bayside Academy eighth graders, concerned for global warming, petitioned for solar panels at their school, which will be sent to district administrators for consideration.
Keep the discussion civilized. Absolutely NO
personal attacks or insults directed toward writers, nor others who
make comments. Keep it clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd,
racist or sexually-oriented language. Don't threaten. Threats of harming another
person will not be tolerated. Be truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone
or anything. Be proactive. Use the 'Report' link on
each comment to let us know of abusive posts. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Anyone violating these rules will be issued a
warning. After the warning, comment privileges can be
revoked.
Please purchase a Premium Subscription to continue reading.
To continue, please log in, or sign up for a new account.
We offer one free story view per month. If you register for an account, you will get two additional story views. After those three total views, we ask that you support us with a subscription.
A subscription to our digital content is so much more than just access to our valuable content. It means you’re helping to support a local community institution that has, from its very start, supported the betterment of our society. Thank you very much!
(0) comments
Welcome to the discussion.
Log In
Keep the discussion civilized. Absolutely NO personal attacks or insults directed toward writers, nor others who make comments.
Keep it clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
Don't threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
Be truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything.
Be proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.
PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
Anyone violating these rules will be issued a warning. After the warning, comment privileges can be revoked.