About Us
At Charles Gordon, we try our best to keep our surroundings green by reusing paper, composting food instead of putting it in the garbage and pulling out unwanted weeds and picking up garbage from our gardens. Our eco team is dedicated to raising awareness of the environmental crisis and trying to get Charles Gordon students to reduce our school's impact on our Earth. We need your help! We are looking for students, parents and community members to become active on our Eco-Team. You may have a skill, time or talent to contribute! Helping the environment actually benefits you indirectly because it allows you to derive the advantages of a healthy atmosphere.
Accomplishments
- Taken out weeds and burrs from the gardens
- Written articles for website and newsletter
- Participated in One Million Acts of Green
- Put recycling bins in halls and classrooms on each floor
- Put scrap paper bins in each classroom
- Put posters in lunch room to inform people of the correct place to put their waste
- Picked up litter from the yard
- Monthly prize to the teacher who earns the most "Eco-Points"
- Diverting several pounds of waste per week from landfill sites by composting
- Prizes for students who bring litterless lunches
- Called the Prime Minister of Canada to encourage him to go to the Global Climate Summit in Coppenhagen
Goals
- Encourage new membership
- Encourage litterless lunches
- Get more people to walk or ride their bikes to school (less pollution)
- Reduce our school’s waste and energy use
- Improve access to the gardens by humans and animals
- Conduct waste audit and recyle bin audit
- Get cafeteria to change to recycled-content paper plates
- Get only 60% recycled-content paper for photocopiers
- Get more teachers to use reuseable coffee mugs
Parent Support
Parents can support our Eco-team and the environment in one of the following ways:
- Send your child to school with a litter-less lunch (re-useable containers)
- Bring in dead batteries for us to recycle
- Bring in your printer’s empty ink cartridge for us to recycle
- Use scrap paper around your home
- Come out to our mulching days in the spring
- Visit green.cbc.ca and sign up for “One Million Acts of Green”
Publications
One School's Pledge For the Environment