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Environmental Education
Is For YOU!...............................2
DON'T WASTE — Composting Is A Mulch Better Way To Go!..............................................3
REAL PEOPLE:
Saving Watersheds................4
Easy Ways To
Save Energy NOW!..................5
Pennsylvania Business.........6
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Help Given!...............................7
Kids Corner..............................8
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or more than a decade, Nancy Fromnick has promoted composting
in Chester County, training nearly 100 "master
composters." In some areas, where organic waste
items such as grass, leaves and other yard materials
make up some 42 percent of all trash during the fall,
the fruits of her success couldn't make her any happier.
One of Fromnick's master composters, Steve Goddard,
made compost heaps, adopted the bin system and uses
a rotating system that produces nutrient-rich compost
in as few as eight weeks.
"Using compost - and a lot of it - allows your
plants to do their best," Goddard explains. He
and his wife, Marna, use the nearly five tons of compost
they generate every year on their vegetable garden,
helping them grow high-quality peppers, tomatoes, potatoes
and other produce.
Like Fromnick's other master composters, the Goddards
also help teach others about composting. "This
program could not exist without volunteers," Fromnick
says. See page 3 for more about composting.
See page 3 for more about composting.
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eading, writing, arithmetic…environment! Pennsylvania
students are expanding their education to include environmental
responsibility. One of their teachers is Sister Pat
Lupo.
As executive director of Glinodo Earth Force, Sister
Lupo is achieving her goal of getting students and communities
interested in protecting the environment.
 "It's
very exciting to see what young people can do when we
let them," she says. "Earth Force teaches
kids how to inventory their community, select a specific
topic, review policies and practices that result in
sustainable change, and then take action." Sister
Lupo's commitment to education is nurturing environmental
activism in Pennsylvania's youth. The result is a feeling
of responsibility to Pennsylvania's environment that
produces new stewards for our land, air and water.
For more information on how to get involved with Earth
Force, visit www.GreenWorks.tv
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n the early 1990s, in response to rising energy costs and
diminishing funds for education, Thomas Motley, plant operations
director for the Pittsburgh School District, had a bright
idea: "With faith in the resourcefulness of our students,
an energy conservation awareness program can be implemented
in each school." And so began the Student/ Employee/
Community Teamed for Energy Management (SECTEM) program, promoting
the wise and efficient use of energy as a means to reallocate
funds for educational programs.
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Motley has since retired and Ken Frazier has taken over, working
successfully to expand the program beyond expectations. Now
more than 45 elementary and secondary schools participate.
Each school has a committee -composed of students, parents,
teachers and custodians-that plans energy usage reductions
in its buildings.
Activities include a student energy patrol, poster contests
and an award program to recognize conservation efforts. In
the past year, the district saved 2.9 million kilowatt-hours
of electricity and more than $350,000. |
Motley's vision of teaching students lifelong
lessons about energy and Frazier's commitment to the program's
expansion have been key to the district's success, but the
SECTEM program meets an even greater challenge: teaching students
to be energy conservationists for years to come. See
page 5 for more about saving energy.
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