The Glencoe-Silver Lake YES! Team along with Coach Mike Sundblad attended Climate Generation’s West Metro Convening on November 12, 2015. As an added treat, they brought last year’s supermileage car to showcase and use as a visual educational tool for the crowd during the convening’s resource fair. Many attendees initially thought the team was in college and were impressed to learn that the
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WWG YES! Team Pop Tab Collection
Guest Post Submitted by the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) Earth YES! Class The WWG Earth YES! Class organized the 2nd annual Pop Tab Collection this year. There were a total of 6 different schools that participated this year. Each participating school was given a twenty-five dollar check for participating in the pop tab collection competition and the winning team will win a seventy-five dollar
ROCORI YES! Team Has The Dirt on Recycling
By YES! Coordinator Sarah Gainey Throwing our recycling into containers around a building is secondhand nature to most of us. But how many of us know what happens next? How do those bottles and cans make the trip to close the loop and be turned into something else? The YES! team at ROCORI high school knows exactly what happens to those containers and I spent an afternoon with them finding out the
We’re Proud of our YES! Teams!
The students and teachers involved with YES! continue to impress us! This year, 344 students from 22 YES! teams representing 48 communities participated in the YES! Program. These students worked with 1,951 local community members, businesses, and organizations to achieve their energy-related goals. The students' energy action projects impacted an additional 9,092 students and 7,975 community
YES! In Action: Team Highlights
Springfield The Springfield YES! team has been very busy this year working on projects in four main categories: fundraising for clean water, environmental education, a YES! week at their school, and pop tab collection. Their clean water fundraiser, entitled "Say YES! to Clean Water," will take place on May 8th and include a silent auction and brunch. Students have been gathering items for gift
WWG YES! Projects For Sale
By WWG Earth YES! students The WWG Earth YES! class has decided to take recycling to the next level! The following three projects are all example of how we are reducing, reusing, and recycling, resulting in products that you can buy to help our YES! team: Handmade bags: We are taking old colored t-shirts and turning them into handmade bags. The bags are great for carrying things to and from