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!
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.
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!
Students from the Sustainable Life Club help collect waste
The first Ort Report was this Monday and the results are in! We produced 98 pounds of waste! We are thankful for the students’ cooperation with us as we collected the food waste! There were many people with clean plates! Hopefully students and teachers continue to reduce their food waste and remain conscious of their impact on the environment!
Although we did a great job, we hope to improve in the future. The 11:15-11:50 lunch block wasn’t covered, but we will be covering that time next week. This may affect our results by making the total weight less than it should be, but over the next couple of weeks we will be developing a baseline to see how much we regularly use.
We look forward to conserving food waste on Mondays with the community!
Have you thought recently about your impact on the environment?
The Sustainable Life Club is building new initiatives to help students become more mindful of the environment. We’re planning the annual Green Cup Challenge and the new Ort Report, which we hope will help students form better habits, leading to greater awareness of their impact on the earth. Continue reading →
