Green at School

Tips on Getting Your Children Involved In Your Earth-Friendly Lifestyle

There are many tips on getting your children involved in your earth-friendly lifestyle.  If you are in the process of going “green”, it is important to know and understand that this is a lifestyle choice, a way of living that should involve every member of your family.  Children of all ages can get in on the “green” epidemic by learning how to live in a manner that is healthy, and rewarding to themselves, as well as the environment.  The secret is to ensure that your children enjoy what they are doing, and have fun doing it.  If you make it resemble a “chore”, then they will likely lack interest.  However, if you make it a fun task with a lot of initiative, then they will be excited about it!  Here, you will be introduced to tips on getting your children involved in your earth-friendly lifestyle. Water While the earth is composed of 75% water, we are unable to use all of the water resources in the world.  There are many water resources available for our use when it comes to cooking, cleaning, hygiene, and drinking, but even those are limited.  It is important to teach your children that water is the single ...

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How Can You Help Your Child’s School Go Green?

If you have been wondering how you can help your child’s school go green, you have come to the right place!  It is important for all of us to work together in order to ensure that we are protecting our environment, and our world on the whole.  It is important that educational facilities such as public schools, private schools, and other types of educational institutions work with our children, and teach them the importance of properly protecting the environment.  Your child and their peers are the future of the world.  If we get them involved now, there is hope for a safe and sound environment in their future.  Here, you will learn how to help your child’s school go green. 1.    The first thing that you can do to encourage your child’s school to go green is to meet with the principal and other advisors at the school community, including the superintendent.  You should stress to them the importance of taking an active role in the community efforts to live in an earth-friendly manner.  In addition to the benefits that will take place to the environment, it is important to ...

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Teach Your Kids to Be Environmentally Responsible

The “greening of America” has become chic these days, and evidence of this consists in the types of commercials we see on television.  Television commercials usually have a similar cast of characters.  For those with a family setting, there is invariably a cute, precocious, know-it-all kid, a mother who likes to shop, shop, shop, and a father who isn’t too bright.  Occasionally mother isn’t too bright either, but the kid always is.  “Kids know best,” seems to be the subliminal message being sent here. Environmental commercials are no different.  I recently saw one of Mastercard’s commercials.  To paraphrase their end line, “Son teaching parents about the value of the environment, priceless.” I just wanted to throw something at the TV. In real life, it is the job of the parents to teach their kids how to be environmentally responsible, not the other way around. And there are a lot of materials provided for parents to enable them to both learn about how to protect the environment, and teach that philosophy to their children. Perhaps the most basic piece of philosophy to impart is, “Don’t litter.”  Indeed, it seems like very few children, especially boys, are taught to make the effort to cross their rooms to ...

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Greening your School

Dwindling financial resources have brought metropolitan school districts to their knees, cutting elective studies, losing athletics programs, and silencing music.  In some cities and rural areas the effects are even more troubling as schools are closed and students are crammed into shrinking classrooms.  Schools are frantically searching for viable ways to reduce overhead by more effectively managing their resources, and everyone can help. Many school administrators think that they’ve effectively drained the pool of potential cost cutting and green measures, but green ideas are emerging up from untapped springs of student creativity.  Here are a few favorites: Landscape maintenance:  Families volunteer for weekend duties like weeding, trash collecting and seasonal maintenance.  Some resourceful parents even take their lawn tractors to the school to maintain playing fields.  Science and environmentally minded teachers rotate weekends with the families to keep the team focused and manage the legal requirements from the school district’s standpoint.  These “grassroots” groups are tossing out the chemical cocktails utilized by the commercial industry in favor of natural herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Janitorial services:  Students are getting involved in cleaning up the cesspool of toxic agents traditionally used by school maintenance crews.  Science ...

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