Where: Seattle, Washington
Mission per company’s website: “Washington Green Schools challenges students and communities to create a sustainable region through educational experiences that transform school environments. Every school in Washington will teach, model, and practice environmental sustainability, serving as centers for change throughout the region.”
Final Thoughts: We met with this person Rebecca Meredith. It is a nonprofit organization that started back in 2005 as an agency funded by educators. The Department of Ecology was the one that helped with grants. It is composed of 3 members two co-directors and one staff. The funding mainly comes from Grants, corporations, and individual donors. The main concern that led to this company was the excessive amount of waste produced in schools. There is no cost to use services provided to the company. There are 2300 schools in Seattle but only 211 are participating in the program. The main concepts that school can improve will be Energy, Water, Transportation, or Healthy School Systems. These are the steps: 1. The school chooses the category they want to improve. 2. Set up green team. 3. Asestment of the school. 4. Behavioral change 5. Consider all other categories 6. Verify and Reflect 7. Share. The program covers a wide range of high and low income families. Schools in Texas need to implement sustainable initiatives. This way it will lead by example to improve our world. This is done by teaching sustainability to our children at a young age. In order for an initiative to be successful it does not just need to be implemented, but also needs a follow-up and review mainly by analysis of the data. Collaboration among different agencies is a plus when implementing sustainable changes.
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