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The
great green revolution!
A
list of environmental programs at the Gisèle-Lalonde
school
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- Dish
washer and dishes / Sustainable cafeteria
- "J'adopte
un cours d'eau" with the museum of nature (Ile Pétrie)
- Club
Aéro-Solaire (2007)
- Club
Environment 9-12 and Gang du Projet Karyne (2007)
- Club
Environment 7-8 (2009)
- Lightning initiative - Fridays
without lights (2008)
- Multi-school
Solar boat race (2009)
- Multi-school
Solar car race
(2008)
- Earth day event with "J'vis
ma vie", City of Ottawa (2007)
- Construction of compost
bins and recycling bins (paper, plastic, aluminum)
- Organic
garden (nutrition course)
- In-class
plants
- Refillable
pens for classroom boards
- Washable coffee cups for teachers
- Reused scrap paper
bin in each classroom
- School-wide
carbon footprint analysis (12th grade geography course)
- Earth
hour
- Enviro-gifts
to promote the school
- Enviro-café
/ fair-trade products
- Home made wind-mill
- Awareness campaign on
oil tar sands with the Sierra club youth coalition
- School
of the year award - Ecology Ottawa (2009)
- Participation
in the pilot project for schools of the Canada Green Building
Council (2009)
- School murale
- The Great Green Tree (2009)
- Carbon
footprint activities using Kill-a-Watt monitors (2009)
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