#1
Perform an Energy Awareness Campaign - Knowledge is Power. Help your school community understand the carbon and fiscal impact of energy use through an Energy Awareness PSA. Find a suggested script HERE and email Logan.Poteat@fayette.kyschools.us to access school-specific data. Consider morning announcements, visiting classroom presentations and classroom/grade-level/school newsletters. Have fun with it!
Documentation: provide link to video OR describe how the Energy Awareness Campaign was implemented.
#2
Schedule a Sustainability Listening Session - During a Listening Session, Tresine Logsdon and Logan Poteat will meet with your school's Sustainability Coordinator, Lead Custodian/Campus Foreman, and Buildings & Grounds Administrator to share school-specific energy + solid waste data & learn about your school's sustainability and energy priorities. Listening Sessions do not need to occur during the two-month period to receive the Go Green + Earn Green funds, only scheduled. *A Sustainability Listening Session is not a GreenSTEM classroom lesson.
Documentation: provide date Sustainability Listening Session is scheduled.
#3
Recycling - Earn $200 Power Pack in one of two ways:
a. reduce contamination or
b. reduce landfill-bound waste
* Reduce Contamination: use LiveGreen Lexington Recycling Post-Its to monitor and offer feedback on recycling contamination rates. E-mail Danny ven-dwoolu@lexingtonky.gov for Recycling Post-Its.
Documentation: provide who is conducting recycling audits and how often they take place.
* Reducing Landfill-Bound Waste Volume: find when your school's landfill dumpster is tipped by CLICKING HERE. Then, monitor how full your landfill dumpster is for one week (of typical use). Document if it is 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90% or 100% full and paste monitoring data link in GG + EG in submission form.
Documentation: provide link to monitoring data.
#4
Sustainability Innovation - You know your school's sustainability priorities better than anyone. What do your students care about? How is your school community improving sustainability in innovative ways? Earn a $200 Power Pack by describing your innovative initiative here (e.g. Earth Week 2024 activities, appliance consolidation, campus tree inventory, upcycled lid mural, No Idling, outdoor classrooms, water bottle refilling station).
Documentation: provide description of innovation project. If you are submitting Earth Week 2024 activities, please describe at least two activities.