Archive for September, 2010

Composting Videos are up!

Composting educational videos made by our students! Video 1 http://www.youtube.com/user/fdrmsschool#p/u/4/5Ms7STGS7rU video 2 http://www.youtube.com/user/fdrmsschool#p/u/3/daEoSpSuyNg video 3 http://www.youtube.com/user/fdrmsschool#p/u/2/bAAi2_-OhYs video 4 http://www.youtube.com/user/fdrmsschool#p/u/1/xGqpMGvnn5c video 5 http://www.youtube.com/user/fdrmsschool#p/u/0/WNt9oIUn218 video 6 http://www.youtube.com/user/fdrmsschool#p/a/u/0/Kilg2OsSYNc

September 27, 2010 ·  · No Comments
Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Gardening/Composting

PURE WATER @ FDR – AGUA PURA @ FDR

Dear Parents, The process of installing a new water purification system on our campus has been completed. The water coming out of our water fountains, as well as our taps, meets the highest purification standards for both Peru and the United States. Filling up reusable water bottles instead of buying bottled water is an environmentally [...]

September 23, 2010 ·  · No Comments
Posted in: Water Bottles

Green Team Superforum report

Dear All, Here is a copy of the prezi Green Team presentation delivered on Sept 8 at the Superforum. http://prezi.com/vvuz3o96nfrg/fdr-keeping-it-green/ Please send any initiative ideas for FDR to reduce it’s carbon footprint to either Jana (jreed@amersol.edu.pe) or Allana (arumble@amersol.edu.pe) by September 15th. Please also consider stopping in for a Green Team/GIN meeting any Thursday am [...]

September 15, 2010 ·  · No Comments
Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Connections to our Facilities, Events

Composting @ FDR

We had a visit from Ing. Kennerknecht, he evaluated the results of our eco-silos and we are happy to say the results were great! The Gardeners also showed Ing. Kennerknecht their own compost system and they got really good tips on how to make it even better. Special thanks to our Gardeners for their hard [...]

September 9, 2010 ·  · 2 Comments
Posted in: Gardening/Composting