Teacher wants school to go green and save green

Add comment February 19th, 2009

An effort that starts small, saves money — and rhymes: Hononegah social studies teacher Pat Enright wants the high school to go “Green by 2015.”

According to our story:

Enright’s proposal is to change the printers the school currently uses to duplex printers, which print on both sides of paper; encourage the school to subscribe to a tighter recycling regime; and eliminate cafeteria trays that require washing, which would save the district 0.116 gallon of water per tray.

“It’s not going to save us a lot of money throughout the years, but it could go from $67,000 to $19,000 in 2015 and the gallons of water could be from 388,000 gallons to a low end of 16,000 gallons of water,” Enright said.

The plan is already in the hands of a student advisory committee and expected to roll out in the fall. This is good news.

Any other efforts out there?