2016/17 Photo Submissions

Posted on June 13, 2016By SES 25 Acts

: “We can give these components a new life.”

: “What is broken can be fixed!”

: “Go Big , Go Green”

: “Owen shuts down the computer lab everyday. The computers don’t go to sleep, so at 100 Watts X 32 computers X 10 hours, that would be 32kWh. Multiply that by 10 cents/kWh and we save at least $3/day”

: “Shutting down the digital signage at Evan Hardy for the weekend.”

: “Caring hands shutting off computers every day at Evan Hardy.”

: “Recycling is easy”

: “Mrs. G turned the heat off in the classroom before going home! Students wore bunny hugs and brought blankets in preparation for the cold classroom.”

: “Making an effort to recycle all our bottles and juice boxes!”

: “We always make sure the paper recycling goes in the blue bin!”

: “Most of the Grade 7’s bring a reusable water bottle daily!”

: “The Grade 7 class at Raymore School saves energy regularly by turning off the lights when they leave the room and using only what light we need to do our work.”

: “A farmer’s life is the life for me, although the labour hard may be. Without this care we could not live. The earth would not her treasures give.”

: “Let the Sun Shine In”

: “Cardboard makes for awesome art projects”

: “John: The juice box and aluminum can recycling man ensuring recyclable items go home with him to be recycled and not put in our landfill!”

: “Reusing school supplies from previous years rather than buying new ones for everybody. Communal school supplies are awesome!”

: “An environmentally friendly way to raise money for field trips!”

: “Turning off lights when leaving a room”

: “Turning off projector when not in use”

: “Recycling juice boxes”

: “Taking advantage of November sunshine!”

: “Cheers to re-usable containers!”

: “Using our blue bin for paper recycling”

: “Using A Reusable Water Bottle”

: “”GOOS” Paper (Good On One Side): Students created posters and organized boxes for each room in our school where paper that is unused on one side could be collected and reused as scrap paper.”

: “Weekly Paper Recycling”

: “Blue bin recycling for cans/bottles”

: “Sorting “Sarcan” Recyclables”

: “Class water bottles purchased with money from Sarcan recycling.”

: “Picking garbage”

: “Bulletin board about ways to conserve energy”

: “Making bokashi bran for bokashicycle composting”

: “Walk for Water – raising awareness about international and local water issues”

: “Here are some of our questions relating to sustainability : 1. How do microplastics negatively affect river ecosystems? 2. How do solar panels work? 3. How do animals adapt due to climate change? 4. How does tar sands exploitation affect nature? 5. How do the installations work in a recycling plant? 6. Can we replace airplaines with more eco-friendly airplanes? 7. Why go solar? 8. How can humans live on Mars?”

: “Composting at our school.”

: “Successful composting program has required expanding of capacity! Pallet compost bin for overflow”

: “Our first bucket of Bokashi compost is ready for the garden trench. We dug the trenches in the fall when the weather was warm.”

: “Many of our students walk to school instead of drive”

: “Signs like this help us remember to keep the lights off in empty classrooms”

: “Two students teaching classmates how to use the vermicompost they’ve made for our classroom as part of a project!”

: “Sorting recycling to take to SARCAN”

: “Day 10 of lights off challenge”

: “We conserve water while washing our hands!”

: “We encourage everyone to use refillable water bottles”

: “There are recycling bins all over our school and student groups volunteer to take them to SARCAN”

: “Learning about sustainability from Leah and Angie as part of our SS/Health unit.”

: “Starting our Tiny Home design project for math and learning about reducing our ecological footprint.”

: “Recycling after the school dance. ”

: “Garbage sort”

: “Cutting up compost”

: “The recycling program at JPII in North Battleford has classes sort bottles and cans before taking them to SARCAN.”

: “Bokashi composting is highly recommended for homes and school settings”

: “Bokashi composting is highly recommended for school use. This method has turned out to be a solution for our classroom.”

: “The health of the soil is crucial for all gardening. Our buckets of Bokashi compost will enrich the Community Garden for everyone. The Bokashi composting project has significantly reduced our waste. We have paper recycling and food waste going into the compost bucket. There is not much “garbage” leftover.”

: “Students from Mrs. Good’s class collect paper weekly as part of the John Paul II recycling program.”

: “Composting at the DLC!”