Friday, October 21, 2011

OCTOBER 21 MEETING and The Story of Bottled Water

WHAT'S UP

Important things brought up in today's meeting! Here we go:
  • Continued the recycling initiative. Signs have been doled out to place on all the recycling bins we'll be responsible for. Also, it has been suggested that we place a large recycling bin out in the courtyard, with a bigger sign, to further encourage recycling.
  • In terms of long-term goals, I suggested we do something to encourage ecologically-friendly forms of transportation in the school. Part of that initiative could include partnering with ASB to increase awareness throughout the entire campus.
  • Bottles. Mr. Steussy brought up Tapped, a documentary about bottled water. Bottled water is bad, real real bad. I have not seen Tapped, but I have seen this great video called The Story of Bottled Water. It's real short, mostly animated, and very clearly lays its arguments out. Check it out by clicking through the picture below:


Mr. Steussy suggested pushing for awareness of the issue and perhaps even trying to ban bottled water from our school. Anyhow, this topic is certainly worthy of your time and research. The easiest thing you can do now is to stop purchasing bottled water and look for alternative means to fulfill your water needs. It'll save you money and be better for the environment—a win-win!

1 comment:

  1. I know that at OLP they had, if they don't have now, a really high awareness of the dangers of using plastic bottles, so I think this is definitely an achievable goal for our own school!

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for coming to post a comment but please keep it PG or your comment will be removed!