{"id":989,"date":"2010-03-01T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/?p=989"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T21:11:09","slug":"campuses-continue-greening-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/campuses-continue-greening-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Campuses Continue Greening Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article first appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/theharkerschool\/docs\/hqspring10_final_hires\">spring 2010 Harker Quarterly<\/a> and was reprinted in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harker.org\/campuses-continue-greening-efforts\/\">Harker News Online.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green is busting out all over Harker, and not just because\nit is spring. On the upper school campus, the greenhouse is filled with flora\ncultivated by the Biology Club. The club has a crop-style garden planned with\nan herb section and is scouting the art department for a collaborator to help\nlandscape the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upper school HEART Club (Harker Environmental and Animal\nRights Team) continues their ongoing effort of collecting recyclable paper from\nclassrooms and offices around campus. The weekly collection visits are\nreminders to the whole campus both to recycle and to take individual action to\nhelp the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, middle school students and teachers collected\nspare paper generated from routine printing runs, extra copies of homework,\nstaff directives, etc., \u201cso we could get a clear idea of what our monthly\n\u2018waste\u2019 is,\u201d said Cindy Ellis, middle school head. The effort is part of a\nthree-campus push to curb excess printing and paper use. The effort ran Jan.\n4-29 and resulted in a 2.5 foot pile of paper that was then recycled as scratch\npaper at the Harker Math Invitational in mid-March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Nikoloff, head of school, initiated the overall\npaper-saving awareness effort and Jennifer Gargano, assistant head of school\nfor academic affairs, took on the role of educating faculty on the effort at\nschoolwide faculty meetings. \u201cTeachers have been heeding recommendations \u2013\nrequesting fewer color copies, asking the print shop to send digital files and\nreturning the colored pages separating print jobs to the print shop for reuse,\u201d\nsaid Gargano. \u201cOur next step is to recruit students in the middle and upper\nschools to the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In mid-December, Harker was featured on \u201cEco Company,\u201d a\nnational TV program covering teens who are taking an active role in creating\ngreener communities. The segment, aired on KTVU Channel 2, featured the upper\nschool campus\u2019 greenhouse and organic garden, the LEED gold-certified Nichols\nHall, the lower school\u2019s energy monitoring systems and more. Those who were\nunable to tune in can watch the segment on Eco Company\u2019s Web site, www.eco-company.tv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article first appeared in the spring 2010 Harker Quarterly and was reprinted in Harker News Online. Green is busting out all over Harker, and not just because it is spring. On the upper school campus, the greenhouse is filled with flora cultivated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnsreporting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}