The Nature of Things

An Earth Day challenge

April

Want to be a green school? To mark Earth Day, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation and Education Department announced a Green Schools Challenge to boost recycling in schools across the state.

The yearlong competition, according to the announcement, will determine what schools can do to, among other efforts, recycle paper, metal, glass and other materials; buy and promote recycled products and reuse packaging; and conserve water and energy.

The hoped-for goal is to announce winners a year from now, on Earth Day 2009.

More information and an application can be found on the DEC’s Web site.

For more Earth Day stuff, such as book suggestions, head over to the paper’s book blog.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm by Mike Risinit.
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