On Wednesday, November 16th, 2011, students from Castlemont High School's Sustainable Urban Design Academy (SUDA) took a field trip to study sustainable agriculture. The food tour allowed students to study the production, distribution, processing, consumption, disposal, and renewal of agricultural products- all without leaving campus.
Teacher Tim...
The Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project (SLWRP) is featured in the December edition of Principal Leadership, a publication of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The edition focuses on green schools and uses a description of the SLWRP program and examples of projects from our schools to highlight ways that schools can be...
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.
