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Bronx Eco-School’s Earth Day Event Showcases Many Aspects of Sustainability
As a biology teacher and my school’s Sustainability Coordinator, I work with my student-led Green Team and staff to increase awareness and participation in recycling, composting, energy conservation, and gardening in our school. For Earth Day, April 22, 2015, I planned the first JFK Campus-wide Earth Day event our school, one of the National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools in New York City.
Our school’s Sustainability Coordinators and Green Teams ushered in the Spring inauguration of our newly promoted food scrap drop-off site, known as the JFK Campus Organics Collection, and conducted activities all day in our campus garden, the “Enchanted Garden”.
- PawPaw Tree planting
- TreesNY Tree ID Treasure Hunt with certified arborist Samuel Bishop, Storage Shed Mural Painting with Paula Hewitt Amram of OpenRoad Park
- Students planted peas and lettuce seeds to promote sustainable gardening
- We sampled Mr. Steiner’s Peach Compote and Hot Pickles put up last summer
- Students cleaned the garden and picked up trash
- We had a solar display: solar panel, solar oven, and solar car model
- Green Team members in their designed T-shirts guided the events
See more photos from the day. We had hundreds of teachers, students, and special guests attend including Dr. Sharon Jaye, Director of the NYC Department Of Education’s Sustainability Initiative; Ira Charles Levenberg, Bronx Council for Environmental Quality; Master Composter Jodie Colon; William Doyle, our school’s new principal; and my beautiful wife, Premdai Steiner.
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About the Author: Danny Steiner is a Sustainability Coordinator and Environmental Science Teacher at Bronx Theater High School. He is an environmental activist and cares deeply about sustainability.