Bio Tour

the problem:

We are trying to reduce the waste by recycling, and our school has no recycling program so we are trying to start one.

vital stats:

people impacted:

500

people involved:

30

why it's important:

Bio Tour a full day program is coming to our school and it is going to demonstration of the renewable energies on thier vegetable-oil powered bus with solar panels. It is going to be kicking off our paper recycling that we have been working on. The bus is going to making classroom visits, group discussion and a interactive debate. They are also going to be talking about climate changes, peak oil, renable energies and resource depletion.

the plan of action:

We made boxes and decorated them with pifferent sayings like, reduce,recycle,reuse and saving the world one paper at a time. We are putting the boxes in every room at our school and we are going to collect the paper in the boxes every two weeks.

how you can get involved:

Promote recyclig and help with are project.

project updates:

Comments

The BioTour was amazing! We had a great day filled with meeting new friends and learning a great deal of how to preserve our environment. All of you should check out the BioTour's website at http://biotour.org/Fall08/.

Wow I'm so impressed with everything that your Do Something Club is already working on for Increase Your Green! Congratulations on your success after only one official day of competition!

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