The schools in Pacific Palisades meet periodically to share ideas to green their school communities. They are also in email contact.

At the January meeting, Cambria Gordon, co-author of The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming, spoke of the importance of teaching kids what they can do to stop global warming.  She shared things that other schools were doing and the Palisades schools shared what they were doing. A recommended site: changingthepresent.org. Willows School has a student run green team led by Palisadian Josh Corwin.
 
Calvary Christian School
Contact: Amen Bains

Last year: have an elective environmental class. Started paper recycling.
This year: 
-students raised money and donated two resuable bags to each school family;
-Calvary started recycling plastic and paper with Chrysalis Recycling, a free service. (Contact eshavelson@changelives.org).

Canyon Charter School
Contact: Lisa Lim [gentlelim@earthlink.net]

This year and last year: Canyon distributes a green tip of the week to families

Corpus Christi School
Contact:student council

Last year: paper recycling
This year:
-assemblies on what can be recycled

Marquez Charter School
Contact: Wendy Stretten, wstretten@verizon.net

Last year: Marquez received a grant to upgrade its school garden, have an email bulletin. Sold reusable Marquez bags. Have recycling in classrooms.
This year: planning small growing grounds around the school. Implementing recycling at lunchtime.

Palisades Charter Elementary School
Contact: Kelly Williams, kellyrood@gmail.com

Last year: started recycling at lunchtime, sold reusable water bottles, small canvas vegetable bags, made a mural of trash, had an eco-fair and have eco assemblies, have a science garden.

This year: 80 students in the green team. They sold cfl's to school families. The students tested water from the tap and bottled water using a kit from Heal the Bay. Tap water was cleanest.  

Palisades Charter High School
Contact: Steve Engelmann sengelma@yahoo.com

Last year: have a yearly eco-fair. EAST students have environmental projects.
This year:
-EAST environmental students have organized projects dealing with cfls, composting, and more. An EAST team sold cfl's to school families to fun the purchase of 100 cfl's at the school. The worked with oneplanet fundraising.  Another team started collecting scrap printing paper from some classrooms and taking it to the study hall where it can be printed on the other side.
-Compost: have a worm bin. Getting one more and compost bin at the Sanitation Dept bin sale at Griffith Park

Paul Revere Middle School
Contact: Angel Honda

Last year: the school started paper recycling with LACC-a free service

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
-500 party packs available to be checked out by families. Received $2,000 to upgrade the plastic plates to china
-adopting a beach
-will do energy audit in March using a light meter from LADWP
-continue vermiculture
-continue recycling

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

This year:
-purchased party packs for classroom parties after learning about them from St. Matthews.
-using results of last year's energy and water usage survey to plan community activities
-visited Santa Monica recycling center
-working with Hyperion
-4th grade students clean up the Village Green
-starting worm composting

Village School
Contact: Gricelda Gamboa

This year:
- purchased party packs for kindergarten class
- cfl drive with faculty to swap out lights at their homes
-using more bio-friendly cleaning supplies
-paperless Friday bulletin
-have a faculty green team that has analyzed eco websites
-student council gives out weekly green tips (following the lead of Canyon Charter on this).