"One Thing/Fun Thing" for Fri. Nov. 29

We had our first Green Team meeting of the year today and we had quite a few students sign up in the following four areas:

1) Recycling
2) Inside plants and gardening
3) Outside gardening (with our new garden beds)


and 4) Energy conservation:

Last year at Diefenbaker, we had the automatic lights installed in the gym. These are great. They go out after a period of time where there is no movement in the gym. We also unplugged all of our appliances for the summer. It saved quite a bit of the phantom power apparently. I think that we can do a lot more than we have been doing at school though to save energy by turning classroom lights out, keeping the outside doors closed and generally just being more vigilant.

Anyway, this is all so I can link to one of my favourite commercials. It's from BC Hydro and is about being power smart and saving energy (or what things would be like if we didn't have it).
Have a great weekend.