2.2: Energy Conservation

Return to Objective 2: Student-driven Sustainability Practices

Upper Elementary students are planning a power down hour for March; they will challenge their peers throughout the school to power down their classrooms for one hour, and will proceed through their lesson without relying on tools that require electricity.

As part of the 2019-20 Green, Healthy, Smart, Challenge project, our Student Green Team requested funds to purchase energy efficient lighting for the student kitchen space. After a few facility tweaks to prepare the kitchen walls, students are ready to unpack and install their new lighting:

During a particularly cold winter, families pitched in to winterize drafty windows in the classrooms. Families volunteered to purchase and install window treatment kits to better seal in warm air in the classrooms and reduce energy consumption.

In several classrooms, families have also contributed energy efficient lighting and curtains to improve the efficiency of our windows and filter sunlight in the hot summer months: