Archive for the ‘Water Bottles’ Category

Plastic is not Fantastic / El Plástico no es Fantástico

Dear FDR Community, A group of concerned High School students, working closely with the Green Team, has led the effort in banning the sale of bottled water on our campus.  As this group of students educated their fellow students and teachers, we all reached the conclusion that we needed to take action and stop selling [...]

December 16, 2010 ·  · No Comments
Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Our Carbon Footprint, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Water Bottles

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

Recycling Bottles Video

The Green Team is proud to present a Recycling bottles video produced by our HS students: “We have been working to increase awareness and encourage recycling plastic bottles properly (in the correct bin).  Our first product was a rather entertaining video rather than a purely educational one, because we thought humor would attract people and [...]

April 26, 2010 ·  · One Comment
Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Water Bottles

“The Story of Bottled Water”

Like The Story of Stuff , this new film uses simple words and images to explain a complex problem, in this case manufactured demand : how you get people to think they need to spend money on something they don’t actually need or already have. http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/ About the Project  The Story of Stuff Project’s mission [...]

March 26, 2010 ·  · 2 Comments
Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Our Carbon Footprint, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Water Bottles