10th Annual Leadership Environmental Action Forum (LEAF) | Memorial Day Weekend | May 26-27, 2012
Join us at Camp Arroyo, May 26-27, for an inspiring, exciting weekend of student action, networking, leadership, skill development, and nature activities. Located at the beautiful, sustainably-built Camp Arroyo in the Livermore hills!
LEAF will pr...
Clearly labeled bins are an important part of a school recycling system. The downloadable bin label posters in the table below can be used in a variety of settings including classrooms, cafeterias and common areas of campus. Printed posters should be laminated and affixed directly on bins or on the wall at eye level above the bin itself.
The labels...
The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, with support from StopWaste.Org and the Alameda County Office of Education, has created a planning guide to help schools organize locker clean out events that maximize waste diversion while engaging students in a service-learning project teaching leadership, resource management, measurement, data collection...

Schools in Alameda County generate over 60,000 tons of landfill waste every year representing 4% of all waste sent to landfill in the county. StopWaste.Org and the Alameda County Office of Education are dedicated to helping students, teachers, and schools apply the 4Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot) to develop key academic skills and concepts while improving environmental sustainablity. The Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project (
SLWRP) supports teams of teachers, staff and students at middle and high schools in setting and achieving sustainability goals at their schools and in their communities.