Sustainability Team Accomplishments List

Sustainability Team Accomplishments List

written by Kelly Gauthier, Dec 12, 2012.

Our accomplishments in the past six months...

• Established a core team, and then added new members from the Time & Talent survey (I)
• Created a logo and tagline for Sustainability Project (I)
• Held individual meetings with some key parish and school staff to explain the project and see how their dept/area fits in (I)
• Announced the Sustainability Project to the parish in the July 8th Forum, including a highlight of the theological foundations (II)
• Added sustainability petitions to the mass, beginning in December (II)
• Produced 14 Forum articles between July and December (III)
• Learned about organic farming with a parish "field trip" to an organic farm (III)
• Scheduled a workshop at the parish Common Conference in January (II, III)
• "Greened" coffee and donuts by replacing Styrofoam and plastic with compostables -- and composting them (IV)
• "Greened" the school's 60th anniversary party by replacing Styrofoam and plastic with compostables (IV)
• Began "greening" the PAC kitchen (IV)
• Provided educational resources to the school, which are currently being reviewed (II, III)
• Scheduled a teachers' Professional Development day in March that will be dedicated to the topic of integrating sustainability into the curriculum (II, III)