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Green Cup Challenge Week 2!

 

Green Cup Challenge results from week 2!
Green Cup Challenge results from week 2!

The results are in! Green Cup Challenge has been a success for the past two weeks, with the majority of the buildings on campus conserving energy! As of now Conant and Sawyer are in the lead, with Clare following soon afterwards. But, there is always more room to improve! French house and the Middle School have the next two weeks to try to boost their position on the competition.

The main goal for Green Cup Challenge is to try to create better habits of saving energy throughout campus. This competition is not only for students on campus, but also day students, as building like the Middle School and Reed are included for their participation as well. It will continue on for the next two weeks, so one word of advice to all students: conserve! Don’t leave in plugs or keep unused lights on, and let us all try to save as much energy as we can for the next two weeks! I look forward to conserving with you!

Green Cup Challenge Video Competition!

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Thanks to Cade Zawacki ’15 we were able to make a video for the Green Cup Challenge encouraging students to conserve energy! This video is not only used to create awareness of energy conservation among students at Williston, but it is also entered into the Green Cup Challenge’s Video Contest. Schools that are participating in the Green Cup Challenge are encouraged to submit a video into the competition. The best video is determined by votes. Click here to cast your vote for the video you think is best! Polls close on February 12th. If you want to view all the videos in the running for the contest, click here. Winning videos will get special recognition by the Green Cup Challenge website.

The Sustainable Life Club showed our video in assembly last Wednesday, and we received lots of positive feedback! Above you can view our video – we had lots of fun making it and showing it to the community! Enjoy!

Green Cup Challenge: Week 1 Results!

For the last two weeks Sustainable life has been keeping track of the amount of energy each dorm has been using, and our first week results are in! Green Cup Challenge at Williston is not only a national competition with other schools to reduce the most energy, but also a competition between each dorm. The winner who reduces the most amount of energy by February 12th, will get a pizza party!

Chart of each dorm, its recordings, and the percent change from the average.
Chart of each dorm, its recordings, and the percent change from the average.

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Ort Report: Week 3!!

Waste collected in the Dining Hall for the last three weeks!
Weight of waste collected in the Dining Hall for each week!

This week’s Ort Report measurement is great! We recorded a total of 78.2 pounds of waste! Now that we have collected three weeks of results, we have put together a graph to represent each week’s recordings! We will be adding results to this graph each week! The trend line is already on a downward slope!

Even though the measurements are a good representation of how the school is doing in the Ort Report, the Sustainable Life Club hopes to focus on more than just the numbers. We hope to help students and faculty gain a greater understanding and knowledge of their impact on the environment! Encouraging you to think about your impact, we hope that this thoughtfulness will translate into other parts of your daily life!

Ort Report: Week 2!

This week was the second week that the food waste for the Ort Report was recorded! On Monday during lunch, diners produced 60.2 pounds! That is a great improvement from last week’s 98.6 pounds of waste! It seems like students and teachers are becoming more conscious of their impact of waste!

Although the 60.2 pounds is a commendable reduction from last week, please remember that the club is still tweaking the collection process of the Ort Report. This Monday, we collected food waste and liquid waste for only half of the lunch period; the other half we collected only food waste and forgot to collect liquid waste. The Ort Report is a process and glitches like this are inevitable, but hopefully next week we will be able to collect and measure the waste as accurately as possible!