What our school does to help sustain the enviornment
Certain grades in our school actively support a charity called the Greenearth Foundation. This charity helps former illegal loggers become farmers; thus helping people, and helping the environment. The students run food sales to raise funds, and are planning a field trip to visit the land they helped develop. Our students also recycle paper, tetra packs, bottle caps, and soda tabs; some for selling/donating, and some for reuse.
According to our school's head of finance, those who work in operations sometimes practice what is called telecommuting. This means these people don't have to go into work, and can work from home. This saves gas, thus reducing that person's carbon footprint. Our offices also recycle used paper, with the exception of those with certain info already printed on them. Our school also tries to prolong non biodegradable items' use, and we try to use more environment friendly products (ex. insecticides). 
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FCDS uses similar techniques that your school uses. We have an environment club at our school that promotes recycling and also organizes a "campus cleanup" where the student body cleans up trash all over campus. The telecommuting way of work is a very good idea. With the advancements in technology, workers at FCDS are able to call out sick if they are not feeling well and still work and send their class work to do through email or text messaging. Also, the environment club urges students to carpool to school to save on gas and reduce the overall student body carbon footprint.
It sounds like your school really makes an effort to help sustain the environment. I think it is very cool that some of the people who work for your school are able to work from home. Do these people who telecommunicate work from home every day, or only a couple times a week?
Andrew
Jan 8, 2014 at 2:56 PM