Four new Capital region schools have earned the State of Michigan’s green school designation.
Forest View, Post Oak, Wexford and Resurrection Elementary Schools received the designation. In order to get the designation, the schools have to complete 10 
activities that increase environmental awareness.
“It involved everything from joining a Web site that has information about rainforest preservation to implementing a recycling program,” says Taylor Heins with the Greater Lansing Go Green! Initiative about the activities the schools engaged in to earn the designation.
Some of the activities, such as joining the informational Web site, are more symbolic in nature while others, such as the recycling program, have an immediate impact on the environment.
The green school designation was created to promote environmental stewardship among young kids. Heins says the City of Lansing expects to add another five or six area schools to that designation by Earth Day 2009.
To learn more about the green designation, check out Lydia Weiss’ detailed Capital Gains article about the program.
Source: Taylor Heins, City of Lansing
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
All Photographs © Dave Trumpie
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