Need People's Opinion

WikeyWoWikeyWo
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Hello NA, I recently joined my high school's Environmental Club and the sponsor asked if I could think of any ways I can get the students/staff to start making my school more "greener". All I have so far is a recycling contest, paint some of the walls in the hallway, and plant trees/flowers for Earth Day/Arbor Day.
I was wondering if anyone on here had any opinions to help me out here.
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  • DMGDMG
    Walk / Ride your bike to school month.

    Last one out of the classroom turns off the lights.

    In the land of sun and fun, we never flush for number one.

    Hand out refillable pens.

    Use recycled paper instead of the white bleached kind.

  • NewUser123456789NewUser123456789
    Pee Outside to conserve water..



  • RetroBasementRetroBasement
    kill the fat kids
  • bunnyboybunnyboy
    make the fat kids eat the other fat kids, population control + hunger solved
  • dangevindangevin
    Have a contest for the most practical and greenest way to make the school more responsible. You and your team may not be able to generate the best way, but a contest will definitely put the best minds to work and get the whole school involved at the same time. Give green prizes to the winners, as well as implementing their plans and putting their names on the new system, whatever it may be.
  • AllYourBassAllYourBass
    Sod on the roof!
  • quikster11quikster11
    Screw doing homework, cause if you do them, your contribuing to the global warming by using paper that was once a forest.
  • DerekRRoseDerekRRose
    I'm in my school's environmental club. We just placed 5th at our local Envirothon and are going to state!
  • NewUser123456789NewUser123456789
    So all schools are making kids believe in Global Warming now? Even though it's "CLimate Change" and it's not proven to be true??? WTF..
  • NESHomebrewNESHomebrew
    You could start a compost/garden project using leftover compost-able food from the cafeteria and shredded paper from old exams etc.
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    Originally posted by: PSerge

    So all schools are making kids believe in Global Warming now? Even though it's "CLimate Change" and it's not proven to be true??? WTF..


    There's plenty of bogus stuff that school's convince kids to be true.

    This one is probably one of the worst, though, since any parent trying to correct their children's misconception is going to be thought of as out of touch on the subject by the kids.
  • dangevindangevin
    ^ The whole "if you're not part of the solution..." mentality. People always need a reason to finger-point.



    Interesting thought...current solar panels absorb light but radiate heat since they're black...in large enough quantities to meet personal home power needs, they may actually contribute more to global warming than the clean energy they produce would offset by lowering carbon emissions. Trading one type of emission for another =/= "clean" solution.
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    Dan, the whole focus on carbon emissions is bunk.



    Yes, air pollution is bad. It's bad for you health, no one is disputing that. But the correlation between various gases and global temperature increase is so poorly modeled it's unbelievable.



    There is plenty of scapegoating going on, and some of the worst fallout is trying to claim that you can't be a credible scientist if you don't drink the Kool-Aid.
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    To the OP, how would painting walls make the school more "green" in the non-waste sense of the term?





    If the school has an adequate amount of natural light, encourage classes to work with only half of the overhead lighting on, or none at all.



    Also, encourage classes to tolerate 5 degrees warmer in the hot months, and 5 degrees cooler in the winter, and adjust thermostats accordingly.



    Start an initiative to get as many students as possible to ride the bus, or carpooling. See if you can cut the number of upperclassmen driving to school in half.
  • HIGHTOWER26HIGHTOWER26
    I was teasing my grandma the other day, telling her that I was going to get the environmentalists on her because she burned 5 cords of wood this winter.
  • dangevindangevin
    I'm not saying I buy into it, Nathan. I was just pointing out the fallacy of solar power, in its current form it doesn't even properly solve what its proponents say it solves.
  • WikeyWoWikeyWo
    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

    To the OP, how would painting walls make the school more "green" in the non-waste sense of the term?





    If the school has an adequate amount of natural light, encourage classes to work with only half of the overhead lighting on, or none at all.



    Also, encourage classes to tolerate 5 degrees warmer in the hot months, and 5 degrees cooler in the winter, and adjust thermostats accordingly.



    Start an initiative to get as many students as possible to ride the bus, or carpooling. See if you can cut the number of upperclassmen driving to school in half.


    if there was a painting on the wall, it might encourage other students to like join the club, or start into a "greener" life.

    I appreciate the feedback from the people who are actually helping.

    Plus I already know global warming was proving wrong, I'm just trying to get the pollution level down.
  • NewUser123456789NewUser123456789
    Originally posted by: WikeyWo

    if there was a painting on the wall, it might encourage other students to like join the club, or start into a "greener" life.

    I appreciate the feedback from the people who are actually helping.

    Plus I already know global warming was proving wrong, I'm just trying to get the pollution level down.


    Sorry I didn't mean to get off topic.. 

    Ask fellow students to carpool with you or each other, that would reduce the amount of fossil fuels burnt, and reduce the amount of CO2 released.. 
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    Originally posted by: WikeyWo

    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

    To the OP, how would painting walls make the school more "green" in the non-waste sense of the term?





    If the school has an adequate amount of natural light, encourage classes to work with only half of the overhead lighting on, or none at all.



    Also, encourage classes to tolerate 5 degrees warmer in the hot months, and 5 degrees cooler in the winter, and adjust thermostats accordingly.



    Start an initiative to get as many students as possible to ride the bus, or carpooling. See if you can cut the number of upperclassmen driving to school in half.


    if there was a painting on the wall, it might encourage other students to like join the club, or start into a "greener" life.

    I appreciate the feedback from the people who are actually helping.

    Plus I already know global warming was proving wrong, I'm just trying to get the pollution level down.


    Yeah, like Paul, sorry for the rant image image

    It's great to be concerned about pollution and general wastefulness, though.  Regardless of the climate consequences, we do have finite resources.
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