By YES! Coordinator Winston Pennington-Flax Late last fall, after a news story surfaced that monarch butterflies may be absent from Minnesota's landscape in as few as ten years, the students of the Alexandria Area High School YES! team saw a major problem in our ecosystem as well as an opportunity to create positive change in their school and community. Fast forward to late winter, and the
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Can and Bottle Recycling at WWG
By Addy Beaty, WWG Earth YES! student The WWG Earth YES! class is working to make recycling more important to people in our community. We have received 6 recycling bins to put around our school in order to increase the amount of plastic bottles and aluminum cans being recycled. These bins were donated by Redwood County Recycling Center. We would also like to thank Prairie Woods Environmental
Plastic Bag Recycling at WWG
By Matthew Burns, WWG Earth YES! student The WWG Earth YES! class is recycling plastic bags. This year’s goal is to collect over 16,000. We have collected over 2,000 bags, and it’s been a little over 3 months. We encourage the people of Westbrook to participate in the recycling. The bags that get recycled are sorted and counted; the colored bags are separated out to make bracelets. The white
YES! Announces 2013-2014 Award Winners!
YES! Awards 2013-2014 YES! teams all did great work this season! We recently concluded the YES! judging for the 2013-2014 season. YES! awards were presented within each cohort. Unless otherwise noted, Grand Prize winners received $1,000; Second Place winners received $750; Third Place winners received $500. See what each team accomplished by reading more on the Teams page. Grand
New London-Spicer YES! Team Harvest!
This year the New London-Spicer YES! team has decided to go local with their food. They installed a passive solar greenhouse and tied in a vertical axis wind turbine. Last week they were able to harvest some of the produce from their greenhouse. They harvested 2.5 pounds of lettuce and almost 2 pounds of French Breakfast radishes. They look forward to harvesting more produce from their
WWG YES! Team’s Plastic Bag Recycling Project
This guest blog post is brought to you by the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) YES! Team, which is a part of their 2013-2014 Earth YES! class. As part of our Earth YES! Class we do many projects to better ourselves while learning valuable tips and methods to save our planet. We've done many projects in the past, we are doing a continuation of last years project: Plastic Bag Recycling. As of this