The public and private schools in the Pacific Palisades area network to share ideas on greening their school communities. 

Calvary Christian School
Contact: Amen Bains and Linda Pierpoint

-Have an elective environmental class.  
-Calvary recycles plastic and paper.
-Encourages students to use reusable water bottles/sells waste-free lunch kits.
-Recently had an environmental assembly given by Run for One Planet and all students made environmental pledges to be more sustainable. 

Canyon Charter School
Contact:Karen Martinez Cohen

Librarian implemented plastic bottle recycling and has purchased 100s of used books with proceeds;
-student council is green team.
-Walk to school Fridays.

Corpus Christi School
Contact: Carolyn Miller racjmiller@aol.com
-Recycle paper

Kenter Canyon School
Contact: Deborah Dalton

-Have parent Environmental team;
-email newsletter has an eco-column;
-Earth Day activities will include cleaning the beach with Heal the Bay and a trash/fashion show


Marquez Charter School
Contact: Jody Norris, jpmp@aol.com

-raised beds for edible garden
-adopted a beach with Heal the Bay (clean it 3x/year)
-weekly email bulletin
-reusable Marquez bags
-each grade composts
- paper recycling in classrooms
-green team composed of fifth graders
-"no-idling" policy in the carpool lane
 
Methodist Preschool
Contact: Janet (art teacher)

-Use reusable plates and bowls for snacks-eliminated paper plates;
-Planted a school garden last year which is a focus of art, items for the classroom projects,
-compost with worms
-use non-toxic cleaning products;
-communicate through email

Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church Preschool
Contact: julie@palipres.org
-communicate via email;
-use non-toxic cleaners;
-compost with vermiculture;
-discuss with kids how to keep the Earth green during Earth month;
-collect and use recycled products in art projects
-garden with raised beds and pots.

Palisades Charter Elementary School
Contact: Jill Hurd
Recycle at lunchtime, sold reusable water bottles, small canvas vegetable bags, have an eco-fair and eco assemblies, have a science garden, have 80 students in the green team, made sculptures out of plastic bottles after an assembly with Alagitha, have bike days to reduce driving;

Palisades Charter High School
Contact: Steve Engelmann sengelma@yahoo.com
- School Green Team members wear green shirts and help other students recycle at lunchtime;
-EAST students have a yearly eco-fair to which they invite local elementary schools and do environmental projects.
-EAST environmental students have organized projects dealing with cfls, composting, and more. 
-Compost: have a worm bin;
-Have a small garden where they grown vegetables and a native rain garden.

Paul Revere Middle School
Contact: Lori Vogel, lorivogel@mac.com and Katy Anastasi, klanastasi@yahoo.com

-An agriculture teacher was hired last year to renovate the gardens and teach horticulture classes. 
-Recycle with L.A. City Dept. of Sanitation
-student council members collect items from classrooms

St. Matthews Parish School
Contact: Jillian Esby, jesby@stmatthewsschool.com

This year:
-green team expanded to 120 students, the teenie greenies
-sports teams are water bottle free, bring bulk packaged snacks
-continue goos paper program (good on one side) and encourage printing on both sides whenever possible
-k-8 classes have own party packs with reusable containers
-500 party packs available to be checked out by families. Received $2,000 to upgrade the plastic plates to china
-adopting a beach
-vermiculture
-recycling
-purchase reusable office products such as refillable dry erase markers; do not laminate.

Seven Arrows Elementary School
Contact: Steven Kiralla lorenasteven@aol.com

-purchased party packs for classroom parties after learning about them from St. Matthews.
-students analyzed paper usage at school to determine amount of waste
-visited Santa Monica recycling center
-working with Hyperion
-4th grade students clean up the Village Green
-use vermiculture
- had assembly with Run for One Planet.

Village School
Contact: Gricelda Gamboa

- purchased party packs for kindergarten class
- cfl drive with faculty to swap out lights at their homes
-use non-toxic cleaning supplies
-paperless Friday bulletin
-have a faculty and student green team
-Eco Fair

Resources: http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page624.aspx