From the team over at Lac qui Parle Valley: The LqPV YES! Team toured the Big Stone Power Plant recently. The team was given this unique opportunity by the Minnesota Valley REC after completing an essay on how the team would benefit from this experience. The YES! team traveled by coach bus to the plant and was treated to lunch at the Ortonville Pizza Ranch after the tour was completed. "We
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How was Lac qui Parle’s composting class?…
...a big hit! Lac qui Parle Valley YES team hosted their indoor composting class last week with great success! Check out their recently posted pictures on the YES facebook page to see the number of smiles for yourself! We look forward to hearing how participants like using their worm bins and the excitment about composting it generates in your community!
Solar panels make power at EVW
The new solar installation at Eden Valley-Watkins's school grounds is soaking up the sun! You can check the output of the panels yourself: EVW solar monitor. EVW had a Schools Cutting Carbon grant for this project. Well done, EVW!
ACGC is at it again…
Having spent the summer hard at work in their school garden, ACGC's YES team is looking to compost their school's waste this season. How are they going to do it? They're building their own Earth Tub! An Earth Tube is a mid-scale in-vessel composting bin that will allow the school to dump in the 'source-separated organics' (compostables), stir and collect healthy soil! They're locating an ice
How did it go?!?
It was a 'dark and stormy night' (or at least a dark day) but WWG Highschool has made it through "Black Out Day." At 8:30 their group split up and turned off the lights in hallways and classrooms. While shutting off lights they taped small signs that say "no lights" on top of every light switch. They noted that it was pretty dark in the hallways, but exciting at the same time :)
