and the following Connecticut Science Centers

• To educate all students regarding behaviors and actions that will reduce energy use in their homes and schools in an effort to promote conservation of resources
• To expose students to the effect of fossil fuels on our planet and the need and potential in us all to affect a positive change in regards to global warming
• To support and promote the belief that students  can use nature as a classroom and that relevant learning can occur outside the school building
• To collaborate with existing environmentao agencies to offer training in renewable energy sources to teachers and students.
• To experience firsthand the beauty, health and environmental impacts affecting our local watershed.
• To educate and inform the Mayor, City Council officials and their state representative as to the state of affairs with NLPS' inablity to attain compliance with state recycling laws so that changes will be forthcoming.
• To present Governor Malloy with a student petition to request is endorsement of the Environmental Literacy Plan drafted by the CT State Department of Education for all CT schools. 

Accomplishments:

• Educated and informed local officials as to the noncompliance of NLPS with State recycling laws.
• Distributed and signed a petition requesting that the governor endorse the Environmental Literacy Plan as drafted by the Connecticut Department of Education
• Were the first student presenters of a traveling exhibit for the Conservation Quest, at the Stepping Stones Museum in Norwalk, CT.  Presented 4 stations: Solar, Bright Ideas, Sort the Waste and How do you stack up?, to children grades 3-5
• In collaboration with the NLHS SEMI students in grades  4&5 participated in an ACES assembly on May 27, 2011
• Donated $100 of its 2010 KCC winnings to be a member of Connecticut Outdoor Environmental Educators' Association (COEEA)
• In keeping with their goal of collaborating with environmental agencies, students participated in individual workshops on renewable energy resources, held by the Clean Energy Fund. As a result of the workshops, students built a wind turbine that was presented at the Science Fair on May 18th.

• Increase recycling throughout the school and church communities and reduce waste. 
• Educate the school and church communities of benefits of the 5 R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink and Respect.
• Promote awareness of energy conservation reduce use of incandescent bulbs in the community.
• Promote awareness of climate changeand CO2 through educational assignments to both the school and public.
• Improve school grounds with the planting of trees and plants, creating carbon sinks.
• Calculate carbon footprint of our school and the homes of KCC team members and mentor.
• Create eco-friendly items to sell at the Christmas craft fair.
• Reduce carbon emissions by carpooling.

• Created St. Paul Environmental Club for all grades of our K-8 school.
• Created a KCC team, divided into 4 subgroups: Earth Day activities, Recycling Efforts, Carbon Footprint Calculations and other Environmental Awareness acitivities.
• Held a school-wide assembly for America Recycles Day.
• Planted trees on school grounds on Make a Difference Day and improved the garden around their Saint Francis statue.
• Held school-wide Earth Day events, including staging a Earth Day play, Earth Day contest for each homeroom and a recycling contest between grades.
• Improved recycling of many materials such as: electronics, ink cartridges, batteries, paper, plastic, aluminum cans, glue bottles and sticks and juice pouches by creating recycling centers in the school.
• Encouraged the principal to begin a milk carton recycling program
• Created signs and posters to encourage recycling thorughout the school and to turn off lights when not in use.
• Had a shining solutions assembly for the school regarding the benefits of CFL light bulbs and held a fundraiser selling CFLs to the community.
• Held an Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) assembly for the school
• Proved that Energy Angels aer better than Energy Hogs. Data was used to calculate savings in CO2 emissions with the Carbon Footprint Calculator.
• Calculated the carbon footprint of all the KCC team members, mentor and other St. Paul faculty members.
• Created eco-friendly items that were sold at the annual Christmas Craft Fair, raising over $50 for the school.
• Carpooled too KCC meeting a the Mystic Aquarium and CT Science Center. Sports teams carpooled to their sporting events.
• Stopped sending out the paper versions of school newsletters and other information on a weekly basis and switched to electronic versions for all families with access to e-mail A(99% of school population)
• Created a section on their mentor's web page, Miss Kotler, to promote the Environmental Club's Efforts.

• To provide an educational community day in order to teach the 12 steps to sustainability
• To create a website on recycling
• To collect items in order to recycle them for other good uses (jeans, crayons)

• Met with community resources for ideas and support (Mr. Hubeny, Ms. Kohl and Mrs. Tynan)
• Wrote and received a Wolcott education fourndation grant for $700
• Created a website on recycling (TripleR @ www.wpetripler.yolasite.com)
• Held a community go green day on Saturday April 30, 2011 at which the following was accomplished: 

• Implement a school-wide trash audit and collect data
• Develop sustainable waste management strategies
• Made aware the Common Ground mission to cultivate habits of healthy living and sustainable environmental pratice by creating a "Green Team"
• "Green Team" creates measurable goals around:

• Facilitated leading Green Fair and gathered projects, ideas, etc.
• Began implementing site-wide recycling efforts
• Began Architect Design to Construction Process
• Consulting with Sustainability Consultants

• Increase school-wide recycling efforts
• Teach environmental friendliness to students, staff and faculty
• Encourage and implement strategies for reducing carbon emissions associated with campus transportation and operation
• Increase use of campus grounds for production of useful vegetation and food stock

• Composted food scraps from the school kitchen.
• Used empty milk cartons from school lunches for plant pots
• Used shredded paper from school offices as bedding in the BET shop's animal cages.
• Built a hydroelectricity demonstration to exhibit an eco-friendly eneryg source to students.
• Taught students in grades 2-5 about the operation of a greenhouse, recycling and other biological concepts.
• Used a wind turbine and solar panels to cut the school's energy needs
• made small batches of bio-diesal to learn about clean energy alternatives.
• Visited a local bio-diesal company to learn how bio-diesal is produced on a large scale
• Maintained a Xeriscape garden
• Produced herbs and spices to be used in the school's kitchen
• Bred fish in a controlled environment

• To go trayless in their dining hall plus otherr dining hall initiatives
• To reduce their energy consumption by participated in the Green Cup Challenge
• To improve our already comprehansive recycling program
• To have a transportation initiative with several components, including a school-wide survey monkey and a student-designed pamplet to encourage discussion and awareness of driving impacts, to institut a no idling policy.
• To increase campus wide environmental consciousness

• Went trayless in February, 2011 with savings in electricity, hot water, cleaning chemicals, and less food waste
• Participated in the Green Cup Challenge in January-February and managed to reduce their kWh during the month-long competition despite a very cold winter
• Upgraded their recycling program and achieved a "Champion" status in the Green Cup recycling Program in April, with an average of 81% correct recycling, placing third overall.
• Launched a survey monkey on transportation called "Hopkins transportation and our carbon footprint", which has received over 620 responses to date. Simultaneously designed other transportation conservation initiatives, such as a 10% discount at an auto body shop, a dringin pamphlet for advisor groups, more frequent tune-ups, tire pressure checks and oil changes.
• Held numerous school assemblies, announcements and presentations including environmental filmmaker Ian Cheney of King Corn in April 2011

• Calculate the school's carbon footprint
• Involve the students and teachers in an event to make helping the environment fun
• Spread knowledge and learn about environmental issues plaguing CT.
• Learn about waste disposal

• Held an environmental fun day (or green day) where students pay one dollar to dress in green (which went towards their new "green building").  Teachers were chosen to see who was the best "unplugged" teacher (one who did not use electricity for lesson plan)
• Calculated the carbon footprint
• Read environmental facts each morning during announcements.

• To improve recycling at the high school by recycling juice and milk containers
• To reduce the amount of trash being sent to the local incinerator by using reusable lunch trays instead of Styrofoam.
• Complete a carbon footprint of student's  homes and the high school
• Learn about ways to save energy and reduce waste.
• Pledge one thing that each individual student can do to reduce their personal carbon footprint

• Made individual pledges to reduce, reuse and recycle in our everyday lives
• Completed carbon footprints for students and the high school
• Proposal of recycling and removal of Styrofoam trays was presented and approved by school principall and food service director.
• Attended ECO Earth Day and picked up trash in the city youth baseball fields
• Presented a petition to the mayor requesting the city reinstitute recycling programs at the high school
• Increased community awareness of reduce, reuse and recycle through a presentation at the Magnete schools science fair.
• Hosted Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) assembly and talked about lunchroom reduce, reuse and recycle.

• To improve recycling at the high school by recycling car tires
• Complete a carbon footprint of students' homes and the high school
• Learn different ways to save energy and reduce waste
• Have each student make a pledge to reduce their carbon footprint
• Hosted and Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) assembly to help spread the word about recycling

• Hosted a car recycling project to remove 500 tires from the community for recycling
• Made individual pledges to reduce, reuse and recycle in their everyday lives
• Completed carbon footprint of students and the high school