Our new Green Team provided an array of engagement activities to celebrate Earth Week at Annie Wright. The week started with a green civvies day and special Earth Day chapel on Monday, April 29, and ended on Friday with a Pre-K-Grade 12 community engagement activity in which students, faculty and staff worked together to rake, weed, clip, prune, haul and otherwise clear up and beautify Garfield Park. Our partners at Metro Parks gave wonderful feedback about the huge impact we made as a team.

Other green initiaties going beyond the realm of Earth Day:

• "Green Gators on the Go" - a team of faculty, parents and students committed to using alternative forms of transporation, such as bicycles, to commute to work and school.
• Waste remedies in our dining room, including composting (thanks to Grade 4) and no longer using most plastic and paper products.
• Double-sided printing as a default and refillable toner for printers.
• Reusable water bottles in lieu of disposable ones.
• Beach clean-up of the Tsunami debris by the Grade 6
• Reduction of food waste and composting projects by Grade 4
• A new computer controller for the boiler system. Allied with a warmer winter, this helped reduce the utilities bill by $20,000 in one year!

• Upcoming play about environmental issues
• Recycled art show by John Weir
• Bike Rack placement in school
• Energy Audit and participation in energy tracking Olympics
• More classroom projects