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Green Team Project Vision

The FPS District Green Teams are committed to educating students, parents, community members, etc. about environmental issues and therefore taking steps toward improving the environment in the home, school, community, workplace, county, and world.

Green Team Headlines

NEW! Attention: Double Bang For The Green Buck

Funds may be available for up to $200 in matching funds for your school's Green Team project. For more information contact Connie Crisp. (connie.crisp@fayar.net)

NEW! Earth Day

In honor of Earth Day, students in the district will create B-Earth Day cards on donated card stock. The front of the card will have a 2D graphic or drawing in honor of Earth Day. It can be anythingto do with the Earth. On the opposite side, students will make a B-Earth Day Resolution - goals that they could accomplish that would be good for the Earth toward a greated sustainability. It can be as simple as "consume less" or "recycle more" or as specific as replace incandescent bulbs with CFL Fluorescents or L's or write a letter to a Senator to pass clean energy legislation, etc.

We will deliver the cards to all schools in the district on March 29 - April 2 and will pick them up on April 10. New School and St. Josephs, participating businesses, and local citizens will also participate. We will exhibit these cards in downtown Fayetteville through out the Earth Day festivities from April 17 - April 25 to then be collected, collated, tabulated, recorded and then taken to a local printer for printing into a bound edition that will be mailed to our elected officials. Some copies will be retained to be distributed for public record, and copies will be made available for sale to the public to cover costs and raise money to go towards next years events.

Please send the number of card stock that each school would like to have to Connie Crisp and we will deliver the card stock to the school. We would really like to have all schools in the district participate in this project. Since classroom teachers are so busy with testing, perhaps the art teachers might like to get involved. Root School and FHS art teachers have already committed to the project. Have students put their name and school on the back.

FPS Green Team Newsletter

The Green Team Newsletter is available by clicking on the image below, this will open the full viewing of the document. This newsletter is put together by students at Fayetteville High School, in an effort to promote the green activities throughout Fayetteville Public Schools. The feature stories in this edition include Calculating Green House Gas, City of Fayetteville Solid Waste Recycling, The Green Challenge, Ways You Can Be Green This New Year!, Green Facts!, Recycle Hazardous Waste, D.C. Climate Workshop, Root's Green Team Adopts a Creek, and Upcoming Events. An interesting fact is if we avoid 10 miles of driving every week, this would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year. Also, for every 38,000 bills paid online, two tons of trees are preserved. Lastily, every day in the U.S., we produce enough trash to equal the weight of the Empire State Building. Please feel free to read the newsletter, and remember to Recycle, Reuse, and Reduce.