Green Initiative at St. Andrew School

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The National Junior Honor Society at St. Andrew’s Catholic School has launched a Green Initiative to integrate more earth-conscious acts into the lives of the students. The initiative has three phases: revamping the existing recycling system, education, and growing plants in a greenhouse. The first phase began at the start of the second quarter of the school year. The students introduced new recycling bins, are specially designed for paper waste, into each classroom of the K-8 school. Each Wednesday, teams of NJHS collect the bins and recycle the contents. This first phase is to make the little decisions of recycling paper more visual and efficient. For the second phase of the Green Initiative, education, each member of NJHS volunteered to teach the tenets of caring for the earth with daily actions to classes throughout St. Andrew’s. The students will share information about the 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, as well as the importance of making the little daily decisions count, and how the school community can practice healthy dominion over God’s Creation by choosing to protect and preserve it for future generations. The final phase of the Green Initiative will begin in the fourth quarter, when students will begin growing plants in a greenhouse that will eventually be sold to fund further action. The students in NJHS are introducing incremental change that will bear ripple effects that touch each member of the school community, stimulating a much larger change.