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|  | REDUCING RIVERS’ FOOTPRINT February is GREEN CUP CHALLENGE month.
Help reduce our electrical usage. Turn off lights in classrooms and bathrooms. Unplug chargers when not in use. Let’s beat our fellow ISL competitors!
Look for the GXT Green Wheel Seal on Rivers vehicles, offsetting carbon emissions. We have purchased 16 carbon offsets to mitigate 16 tons of carbon released by using 1334 gallons of gas this year.
Stay tuned to see how we did against our competitors.
Important Dates:
February 10, 11:00-11:30 a.m. in the Café. Guest Speaker: David Arnold, photographer, journalist, and environmentalist. See how climate change affects everything from glaciers to coral reefs in his amazing photographs.
March 7, 6:00 -7:30 p.m. Grade 7 Science Night. “GREEN SOLUTIONS” |
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|  | Stepping Toward a Sustainable Footprint
On a chilly Tuesday morning in February, the halls of Prince are bustling with middle school students pulling books from their lockers and chatting boisterously before class.
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 | Rivers Launches Composting Program
Paper napkins, plant-based cups, and corn-based utensils – they’re all part of lunch time at Rivers right now. Members of the dining hall staff feed more than 600 people a mid-day meal on campus, and now the Rivers community can toss what they don’t eat, what they eat on, and what they eat with into compost bins.
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 | Rivers Embarks on “Green Cup Challenge” to Reduce Energy Use
Over the next month, Rivers will be participating in a special student-driven energy challenge with schools from all over North America. The Green Cup Challenge, taking place January 21 to February 18, is a friendly competition meant to encourage schools to reduce their electricity use.
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 | Rivers' Science Class Visits Local Biotech Company Biogen
As science teacher Michael Schlenker will attest, the field requires the careful study and knowledge of a variety of disciplines, from mechanical engineering and physics to computer programming. This year Schlenker’s robotics class is revving up its efforts, which included a trip this past Wednesday to Biogen Idec, a biotech company in Weston that uses LEED-certified buildings and advanced deep-water cooling systems in its facilities.
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 | Rivers Finishes 3rd in N.E. in Green Cup Challenge
It was announced this week that Rivers finished third overall among all Northeast day schools in the national Green Cup Challenge, achieving a 15.7 percent reduction in electricity use and outperforming many other ISL schools.
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| | Rivers is making a concerted effort to adopt
sustainable practices whenever possible on campus.
As stated in our Core Values, our actions have a profound impact on ourselves, on others,
on the environment, and on the community as a whole. |
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