Irvington High School junior Pallavi Sherikar was honored as the 2012 Bay Area Schools Environmental Conference's Green Star Student of the Year at a ceremony in San Jose on Saturday, February 4th 2012.
Pallavi was recognized for her leadership establishing a Youth Advisory Board for EarthTeam, a Berkeley based environmental non-profit organization....
Castlemont High School teacher Tim Bremner was honored as the Green Star Teacher of the Year at the Bay Area Schools Environmental Conference in San Jose on Saturday, February 4, 2012. The City of San Jose, which hosted the events noted the following achievements while presenting the award:
On a recent November day, teacher Tim Bremner organized a...
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.
