Beyond Recycling

The Gr. 6 class, the Eco Tigers, at Twin Rivers School has posted a project on the Kootenay Earth Day website. The project is a One Month Family Eco Challenge. The students have investigated, committed and changed their actions in their homes to try and live more sustainable. Check it out at www.kootenayearthday.ca. They challenge … Continued

We were very lucky to receive goodie bags from FortisBC. In these bags were lots of ecofriendly gifts like, Greenlite Lightbulbs, thermometers for our fridges and freezers, and other goodies.I really enjoy the Beyond Recycling classes and love every bit of it. These classes help me to think about moving forward to protect our earth. … Continued

Students in Beyond Recycling in the East and West Kootenays are involved in Family Eco Challenges to investigate our homes, then come up with ideas and actions to shrink our family’s eco-footprints. Fortis has donated prize packages too! Today we also watched 4 short videos about how important it is to look after our earth. … Continued

This Earth Hour is on March 31st at 8:30pm. Earth Hour started in Sydney Austraila in 2007 to conserve energy for an hour. Now Earth Hour is celebrated in over 128 countries and territories and millions of people all over the world participate in this event globally. To participate we could do as little as … Continued

We learned that 50% of greenhouse gases come from transportation. We can do something to prevent climate change.We can plant a tree or use less carbon. I liked this lesson today because it taught us what we can do to prevent climate change. Written by Kacie, Gr. 6

Today in Beyond Recycling we learned how your electricity gets to your home. It starts at the hydro dam then it goes to the turbine house to generate the power. From there the electricity goes to the power lines so it can travel to the substation where it holds the power. Then it flows to … Continued

Today in class we learned lots about energy. The energy from plants is called methane gas. A renewable resource is a natural resource. A non-renewable resource is like: coal,gas or oil . 95% of B.C’s energy comes from hydro.The different resources we learned about today are: fossil fuels, solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear. We had … Continued

Today we learned about the true cost of food. Most food that you by at big box stores have a huge eco foot print (an eco foot print is the impact that we have on the earth). In this lesson we learned that you should buy locally or organically, to reduce pesticides, transportation and global … Continued