Tricia's Blog

After a successful pilot year in Ontario, the High School Climate Challenge launched in British Columbia in September 2009. Since then, Climate Action Teams at 8 schools across the province have collected data and used the online calculator to figure out their school's greenhouse gas emissions. With this knowledge, the teams have been able to choose sustainability initiatives to implement around their schools that will have the biggest impact. 

The Climate Action Teams have organized many fantastic initiatives at their schools, including:
- A Green Theatre Production
- Solar panel installation
- Landfill tours
- Tours of the local Burns Bog
- Compost
- Fixing leaky taps
- Checking into computer policies (can monitors be turned off at night?)
- And many more!!

A few of our schools entered the BC Green Games, hosted by Science World of British Columbia and BC Hydro. There were 94 entries from 32 school districts around the province this year, all vying for a share of the $22500 prize money available. A panel of provincial environmental experts chose the winning school greening project entries, and additional viewer's choice awards were also given out based on online voting.

We are proud to report that three of our schools were winners!! Congratulations to Shawnigan Lake School, Windermere Community School, and Fraser Heights School! To view the 2010 winning projects, visit: http://2010.bcgreengames.ca/gallery/the-winners.html

Shawnigan Lake School and Brentwood College School at their combined kick-off in November