Green Team!

The chatter of the lunchroom is deafening. Chewing, eating, buying, smelling. The amount of food in that room during a single lunch mod is unthinkable.Now the students go to AH Chemistry. Packet after packet after packet. 90 pages per packet, per unit, per student is...whoa. And where does it all go?

Transport yourself to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. You see a clump of dirty paper bags and scrap papers. You look closely and...its last week's lunch, mixed with your Algebra packet. Now, of course this is an exageration but the message is clear: the "meaningless" trash you throw away everyday has a huge impact on places that are unthinkable for you. Rising sea levels. Could've been a result of the incinerators burning your trash and emitting CO2. This needs to be stopped. Eastern needs change.

So since December, Aaron Bhatt, Jugal Lodaya, Rishi Chauhan and I have been quietly starting a huge reformation at Eastern High School. Before you know it, your trash will be recycled, your classrooms will be bambooed and your paper will be compacted newspapers. That's right. Mission greenify is underway.

Basically, our goals our to raise awareness about going green, make classrooms more green, create an eco-friendly atmosphere for students, and to do an energy audit of the school. What's an audit, you may ask. Basically, we find out how much energy the school is using. And I can tell you, its way too much. But hopefully with our audit, we can smack some sense into the Board of Ed, a group that hasn't been too responsive to students in the past. They're the board of Education, for God's sake! Shouldn't they listen to the students? But that's another story. For now, lets see how our green movemnet works. Hopefully it can stir up some big changes...

To get involved, contact me or Aaron at: ramesh.prashant@gmail.com and bhattman79@gmail.com