Jane's Pocket Change: Valuing Sustainable Practices
Last week Marilyn DelDonno, our sustainability coordinator, gave a progress update on the sustainability committee’s efforts over the past year to the faculty and the students.
Last week Marilyn DelDonno, our sustainability coordinator, gave a progress update on the sustainability committee’s efforts over the past year to the faculty and the students.
What we do well: the strong faculty and student support for the idea of sustainability; and our facilities / maintenance staff, led by the able Gin Stanley. They keep a diligent eye on “green” efforts in everything they manage all over campus. Kudos to Gin and her staff!
What needs work: more integration with curriculum and a need for sustainable protocols throughout the whole school.
Marilyn proposed that CSW works with an outside group, the Sustainable Community Leader Program, to improve our environmental practices over the next two years. We definitely hope that this step will take us beyond “paying lip service” to sustainability but “walking the walk.”
A week later, in a separate yet somehow cosmically related event – CSW received a wonderful gift of 200 LED light bulbs from Ling Ye and Ming Zhou, parents of Ronghao Zhou '13. Each LED bulb provides 30,000 hours of light, and uses 6.3 watts. What a great gift for our campus!
Here’s to more and more that keeps CSW green for a sustainable future.
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Pocket Change is a web diary written by Jane Moulding, head of school.
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What we do well: the strong faculty and student support for the idea of sustainability; and our facilities / maintenance staff, led by the able Gin Stanley. They keep a diligent eye on “green” efforts in everything they manage all over campus. Kudos to Gin and her staff!
What needs work: more integration with curriculum and a need for sustainable protocols throughout the whole school.
Marilyn proposed that CSW works with an outside group, the Sustainable Community Leader Program, to improve our environmental practices over the next two years. We definitely hope that this step will take us beyond “paying lip service” to sustainability but “walking the walk.”
A week later, in a separate yet somehow cosmically related event – CSW received a wonderful gift of 200 LED light bulbs from Ling Ye and Ming Zhou, parents of Ronghao Zhou '13. Each LED bulb provides 30,000 hours of light, and uses 6.3 watts. What a great gift for our campus!
Here’s to more and more that keeps CSW green for a sustainable future.
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Pocket Change is a web diary written by Jane Moulding, head of school.
CSW—a gender-inclusive day and boarding school for grades 9-12—is a national leader in progressive education. We live out our values of inquiry-based learning, student agency, and embracing diverse perspectives in every aspect of our student experience. Young people come to CSW to learn how to learn and then put what they learn into action—essential skills they carry into their futures as doers, makers, innovators, leaders, and exceptional humans who do meaningful work in the world.