{"id":114,"date":"2023-10-09T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/?p=114"},"modified":"2023-10-09T18:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:29:30","slug":"sustainbls-fall-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/2023\/10\/09\/sustainbls-fall-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"SustainBLS Fall Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This fall the goals of SustainBLS are to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Increase recycling efforts in the school through school-wide staff and student education, infrastructure such as clearly marked bins located next to waste receptacles in all classrooms, commons, kitchen, and dining areas<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Decrease waste of resources through simple electricity and waste conservation measures<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Work with and meet student green teams at least 2 times a month starting in October<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Participate in Walk and Roll to school day on October 4th<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    You can find the list of the goals here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Outdoor Learning and Garden Grants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    A first step to developing any school garden is to create your team. Check out our School Garden Development Best Practices Guide (below) to get you started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you\u2019re interested in installing a permanent outdoor school garden, please download and complete the school district volunteer app.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Environmental Center’s Garden Grants are available to public and private Pre K – 12 schools and youth organizations in Central Oregon to start, expand, improve or support a new or existing garden or outdoor classroom. Gardens can be indoor or outdoor, edible and\/or native\/pollinator gardens. Grants are due on November 17th. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Find the app here<\/a> and additional information here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Trex Recycling Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If your school is interested in joining the Trex Recycling challenge, sign up here. <\/a>Through this challenge, you can collect plastic film from the teachers and students. You collect the film, weigh it and enter the weights on the website. You could win a Trex bench. Track your own weights and the winning BLS school will win a special prize for the green team. You can request bins for the plastic recycling once all signed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Bottle Drop Match<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If you are already signed up to collect redeemables via bottle drop, The Bottle Drop is doing Holiday Give 2023. There are matching funds available between November 15 – December 2. Information on setting up Bottle Drop can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Reading the School Lunch Menu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    It was requested to have some lesson to teach students about the school lunch menu. Here is a lesson to use with the green team or share with other staff.<\/a> Any feedback is welcomed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This fall the goals of SustainBLS are to: You can find the list of the goals here. Outdoor Learning and Garden Grants A first step to developing any school garden is to create your team. Check out our School Garden Continue reading SustainBLS Fall Goals<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}