Franklin D. Roosevelt High Keyspan Project

the problem:

 Franklin D. Roosevelt High School competed in the KeySpan-Do Something Environmental Sustainability Competition in the month of October. They won second place! Here are the details about what FDR High did to better their environmental impact:ENERGY:

• Made stickers to put over light switches to remind teachers to turn off the lights in their classrooms when they leave (Total of 120 classrooms). 
• Made flyers on recycled paper about how to further make positive impacts on the environment. Handed out to students and posted around the school and in classrooms. 
• Estimated 3600 hours of energy saved. 

  WASTE RECYCLED, REDUCED, OR REUSED

• Created a flyer on how teachers could reduce their use and handed it out to all faculty.
• Translated the list of recyclable goods into five different languages (Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Vietnamese and Italian), so that students/families for which English isn’t the first language (a large percentage of FDR’s population) are able to discern which items they could and could not recycle.
• The group designed reusable FDR water bottles that will soon be sold in the school store.  They plan to combine the sale of the bottles with a campaign to get the school population to use the reusable bottles as opposed to water or juice bottles from the vending machine which commonly get thrown away.
• Estimated 1350 lbs. of recycled material.

  INVOLVEMENT

• About 30% of the school got involved in Green T-Shirt Day. Students were asked to wear a Green Shirt on the assigned day to show their dedication to taking action to be more environmentally conscious and to take a Green Pledge.
• Over 1000 students total were involved in planning and participating in events.

  INNOVATION

• Translation of  the Department of Sanitation flyers “Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Vietnamese and Italian”
• Home-made pins given to every student and faculty member who took the Green Pledge.

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