Go Green Initiative's School of the Week:
Grand Prairie High School
Grand Prairie, TX
March 2 - 8, 2008 |
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 The environmental program at Grand Prairie High School is as big as Texas.
Their AP Environmental Science class has been paving a green path of environmental stewardship since 1998.
This year's APES Class of '08 have put together a Gophers-Go-For-the-Green Challenge!
Some of the Gopher challenges are:
1.) Completion of the Green-In At GPHS Lobby Beautification Project that was the creation of the Class of 2002. During the recent Thanksgiving break, several seniors devoted 2 days of their vacation preparing the walls of a bricked area that will be home to a waterfall and a green space complete with plants, natural rock boulders, and a spotlighted tile mosaic of the school mascot. 
2.) 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.
3.) Maintenance and Preservation of a 4.3 acre  riparian area, which is their certified (Natl. Wildlife Federation) Schoolyard Habitat. It is officially known as: GPHS Wetland Preserve & Outdoor Learning Area
4.) 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 Grand Prairie.
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.
Way to go Grand Prairie High School!
Sincerely,
Jill Buck
Go Green Initiative |
