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At the Bartram Campus of the Bolles School we are working on developing and implementing a plan toward establishing an environmentally friendly campus in which students, faculty and staff practice recycling, conservation, and develop a sense of personal responsibility for the environment. We are integrating environmental studies into the curriculum at all grade levels. We are creating a school atmosphere in which nature is studied and appreciated as students participate in labs, activities, and assignments that relate to the environment. We hope to create lifelong impressions about the need to care for the environment.

Go Green! By: Lily Whitehouse As you saw in convocation when Mr. Mancosh broadcast his acting talent, the Environmental Club is taking over Bartram! Only a few short weeks into the project of collecting water bottles and members of the Environmental Club are already thinking of new things to do to save the planet! But while thinking of new ideas, the Environmental Club has also uncovered some wonderful acts of conservation already underway! Mrs. Kline’s sixth graders have discovered some people around campus that were already doing their own thing to save the environment. The bookstore recycles printer cartridges and paper and uses recycled folders and notebooks. Paper is shredded and recycled in the office. The cafeteria recycles cardboard and also sends cooking oil from our French fries to Griffin Industries. They convert it into a bi-product for cattle feed and for bio-diesel where it runs trucks and school buses all over Jacksonville. Now with the ever growing Environmental Club booming and care for our planet spreading, those individuals will not be alone. In the past two weeks, we have already filled about 4 giant 96 gallon containers with plastic bottles. Already we are looking towards the future. Do you remember in the sixth grade when we tested Little Pottsburg Creek? Mrs. Kline had contacted the St. John’s Water District and the Environmental Club is going to start testing the extremely polluted river about once a month. We’re also in the process of thinking of Earth Day party ideas! We also plan to extend recycling to paper and change the cups in the cafeteria to something other than completely un-biodegradable Styrofoam. But all this wonderfulness going around at school won’t do it all. Everyone needs to go home and continue with this noble goal. If we don’t save this Earth, it is our generation that will be cleaning up the mess. So go home and start recycling!
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