**WISH GRANTED** SW2 - Green Initiatives

About Green Initiatives

The Green Committee at Bell School strives to increase environmental awareness among our students, staff and community members.

Bell has made great strides toward becoming a green school and community. We are a pilot school for recycling milk cartons; we’ve converted our lunchroom from Styrofoam trays to reusable trays; and we’ve replaced the pre-packaged napkin and utensil sets in the cafeteria with silverware that allows students to take only the items they need. We have also started an idea in the cafeteria about not throwing uneaten/unopened items out. There is an area in the cafeteria were the students can place items from their lunches that have not been opened or eaten such as apples, oranges and other fruits. We are hoping to increase their knowledge of not being wasteful and that someone else might like it.

The 2011/2012 school year marks the debut of Bell’s new student conservation club, the 3-C Club, whose members are hard at work generating new ideas to help our School conserve, recycle and re-use. In efforts to help expand the ideas for the club, the Green Committee hopes to build a small garden that all the students can use as a learning source for ideas such as composting, rain barrel, possibly donating the harvest to a food pantry and many other ideas the students can come up with.

In addition to reducing the environmental impact of our school and community, these programs send a message to our students about the importance of respecting the earth and its resources.

Your donation to this initiative will benefit the entire Bell community as well as the environment.

Note: If you would like to donate online to more than one item, Razoo requires separate transactions for each item. As always, we encourage donations by check because using Razoo will reduce your donation to Bell by their 3% transaction fee. If you need a new form, please download it from the Bell School website. Online totals shown do not include payments made by check. Go to www.agbellschool.com/wish-list for complete item totals.