Go Green Initiative School of the Week

Go Green Initiative's School of the Week:

Valley View Elementary

Pleasanton, CA

February 24-March 1, 2008

valley view recycling Valley View Elementary School in Northern California has gone wild for recycling and food scraping.

Principal Michele Brynjulson called parent Laura Beer, their "one-woman dynamo."

Helping Laura develop the Go Green program is teacher, Elicha Gastelumendi and the Student Council.

This year Valley View has focused on recycling, food scrapping, gardening, and other "green" endeavors that connect to their academic content standards.

Here's a peek at what they've been up to...

They are proud of the fact that their school alone has been responsible for diverting 120,000 lbs of paper, 2,400 lbs of cardboard, 200 lbs of plastic, and 319 printer cartridges away from landfill.
Given away over 500 compact fluorescent bulbs to their school families thanks to PG &E.
Trained the entire student body on the implementation of a food scrap program whose composition is shipped to a local composting facility.

Treehugger.com features our school of the week on their website. wned by The Discovery Channel, their website gets 4.7 million page views a month. Read the Treehugger article about Valley View.

If you would like your school to be considered for the "School of the Week", please email Amy Snyder at newsletter@gogreeninitiative.org. Tell us what your school has been doing to Go Green and send along a few pictures of your students "in action." Pictures cannot be larger than 2 MB.

Valley View is truly green all over!

Sincerely,

Jill Buck
Go Green Initiative