{"id":496,"date":"2026-07-31T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/?page_id=496"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:51:15","slug":"calendar-of-sustainability-related-dates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/calendar-of-sustainability-related-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendar of Sustainability related dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Calendar for Green Teams<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Annual<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September: Recruit students, establish green team, understand waste process and ensure bins and sign are set-up (help identify improvements needed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept\/Oct: Global Food Waste Prevention Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October, first Wednesday: International Walk + Roll to School Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October\/November Pumpkin recycling campaign (either collect or promote existing programs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November Plastic Free Lunch Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 14: Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December: Gift Give, Gently used toy and book drive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December: Promote Christmas tree best practices, use Boy Scout composting pickup (Deschutes&nbsp;National Forest holiday tradition-cut your own tree, Fourth graders eligible for free Christmas tree permit as a part of the&nbsp;<em>Every Kid Outdoors<\/em>&nbsp;initiative)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">January: Idle-Free campaign (many ideas, Thank you for Not Idling parade, signs\/pompoms!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February: Love the Bus month campaign<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April Earth Month, April 22 Earth Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May: Rubbish Renewed Fashion Show, fun green team attendance or design an outfit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June: Sustainable Clean out events for locker clean out, staff moving and retiring, etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2026-2027<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September 28-October 4: Global Food Waste Prevention Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 7, 2026- International Walk + Roll to School Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 13, 2026- Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 16th &#8211; 20th, 2026 Plastic Free Lunch Days<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February 1, 2027 Love the Bus Month starts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February 3, 2027 Winter Walk + Roll to School Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 9, 2027 El Camino de Dolores (Dolores\u2019s Path) Walk + Roll to School Day OR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 22, Earth Day Walk + Roll to School Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earth Day\/Month ideas- Daily Challenges such as zero waste lunch that earns points toward a class prize such as a pizza party<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May TBD Attend, as a group, the Realms fashion show-Rubbish Renewed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calendar for Green Teams Annual September: Recruit students, establish green team, understand waste process and ensure bins and sign are set-up (help identify improvements needed) Sept\/Oct: Global Food Waste Prevention Week October, first Wednesday: International Walk + Roll to School <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/calendar-of-sustainability-related-dates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Calendar of Sustainability related dates<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-496","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}