Plastiki Rafiki is a student-led club and social enterprise with a mission to clean up our local environment by empowering communities to earn a living through plastic recycling and creative product design. We design and build plastic recycling machines and product molds to process discarded plastics into new products. Plastiki Rafiki is joining the alliance because we believe we can do better as a community to reduce our use of plastics and to recycle what we do use.
Construction by Design is an engineering and design club with a mission to use design and engineering for sustainable development. We have joined the Carbon Neutral Alliance, to leverage our clubs skills and resources to create design solutions to make ISK a greener and more environmentally sustainable campus.
The Greenhouse Club is a student led club that grows organic produce on campus. We have also run an aquaponics system, a beehive and a biogas system with the hopes of showcasing the benefits of sustainable farming practices. As a member of the carbon neutral alliance we hope to work with the school to reduce the school's food services footprint and we want to be part of this journey.
Students for the Environment (SFE), a student-led club dedicated to environmental stewardship, focuses on sustainability in day-to-day life, and campaigns for environmental consciousness to be incorporated in the organizational aspects of our campus and community. We look forward to collaborating with school administration and the board and taking a leading role in creating solutions to real-world issues in our community.
Interact encourages the youth to take action, build international understanding, and develop leadership skills while discovering the power of Service Above Self. We have joined the Carbon Neutral Alliance because we believe the ISK community, with all its resources, skills and knowledge, can lead by example, and become carbon neutral.
As a Roundsquare school, we believe that spirit of environmentalism is about understanding mankind’s place in the universe, the forces that shape our surroundings and the impact we have on those surroundings. We have joined the alliance because we believe ISK students need to take practical action in tackling issues of sustainability.
Global Issues Network was born out of a combination of urgency and foresight for the sake of future generations and the health of the planet. Since its small, grassroots beginning, the Global Issues Network has grown rapidly to become a region-strong global network of empowered GIN student changemakers, spanning the globe across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South and Central America. GIN continues to support and grow sustainable youth-led empowerment that now includes an active body of alumni in universities and beyond.
Thrift Treasures is a student-led club that promotes sustainable fashion by encouraging the reuse of vintage and secondhand clothing. Through curated thrift sales and awareness campaigns, the club educates the ISK community about the environmental and social impacts of the fast fashion industry—all while giving clothes a second life.
The ISK Associated Student Body, the voice of the students, fully supports ISK's pledge to become a Carbon Neutral school. Through a school-wide survey, ISK Students recently identified “environmental responsibility” as one of the greatest challenges they face, and “environmental initiatives” and “carbon neutrality” as the two greatest opportunities.