My kids’ school is very Green: they recycle, compost, organize environmental clean-ups and recently built a LEED addition to the school.   There is a parent-run Green Team that is serious about making the school have as little impact on the earth as possible.   I am always in awe when I hear that the school-wide Thanksgiving Feast produces a single tiny bag of trash.    All the food scrap food is composted and the containers recycled.  The dishes and forks used are made of corn.   It’s amazing that they can feed over 900 kids at a traditionally glutenous meal and not have any trash!

So, practicing Green habits is a daily occurrence at the school, not just something that they do on Earth Day.   But once a year they ask the parents and students to do something that they might not normally do: walk, carpool or ride bikes to school.   There are meet-up points near and far for walkers and bike riders to travel to school together, so it’s fun.   We don’t normally walk to school; it’s a 6 minute drive, but a 40 minute walk.   The walk is not so long, but it would require getting up early (!) and moving quickly in the morning and we don’t do that very well.  But today we got up at 6:30 and met the science teacher at the corner at 7:15 to walk as a group.   It was chilly outside, but fun walking and talking together.

We were able to do it because we didn’t eat breakfast before leaving home.  We knew that this would be waiting for us:

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

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