Many of the 13,000 buildings in the school district’s second-largest in the United States, Los Angeles Unified School District, are in poor condition. Most of them built more than half a century had little or no renovation.

LAUSD school construction program of $ 20000000000 – planned to build 145 schools in 2012 – designed to eliminate is a neighborhood school for all pupils, involuntary buses and create small learning communities in schools page.

The program came to life in 1997 when voters allocated $ 2.4 billion for the modernization of facilities and additional classrooms. Measures need for new commitments in 1998 (4 billion), 2002 ($ 3.5 billion of the city and part of a bond of $ 13.05 billion nationwide), (adopted $ 9.2 billion) in 2004 and 2005 (3.99 billion dollars).

In addition, California voters approved in November 2006, a nationwide K-12 and the University Act binding system, which provides an additional $ 10.41 billion, including $ 100,000,000 for the construction of high-school performance (green) throughout the country.

I work in the academic world and it is very recently that I realized that the schools are very important contribution to environmental destruction. For some reason, the school uses a lot of paper and there are very few green policies are implemented. If I am principal for a day, here is what I do with my green dream:

1st I’m going to impose a “clean as you go and isolate (CLAYGOS) Policy.” It is not a new policy as I schools to require their students to see, “clean up as they go.” But what is really lacking is the initiative of the student as a separate waste. I’m with heavy fines on students who will not follow through this policy and would even assign special monitors to take the trash to the waste that is not properly disconnected.

2nd I will encourage my faculty and staff, to define themselves as role models for students. I will ask them to bring their own coffee cups or beverage bottles, so they do not have to bring in water bottles. I’ll ask her paper, by reducing on both sides and with the image of the school copier functionality, they want to reduce the image reproduced in the smallest size possible is recycled, so that more images can fit on one page. You are responsible for separating their garbage and throw even their own little garbage as a sweet wrapper in its place.

It’s easy to say that you have an obligation to the way you live and how they make themselves to think about the environment. The hardest part is to take action. Can I really make a difference? Where do I start? I decided it’s time for me over. I’m in the middle of my “era of application” and it feels fantastic. I know I can make a difference. Because of the green school, I became much more aware of my actions and their impact on the planet. I feel invigorated and inspired, when another mother told me that I what I did with the Green School is a step in the right direction and should have been more likely to happen. Every day I learn new ways to respect and protect our environment. Lots to do! It will take some time. . . Small steps, right?

My beef is the case. There is a huge amount of waste from disposable plastic sandwich bags in our schools. That is, there are a lot of progress with the boomerang and waste-free lunch programs. It takes some skill to all the little containers in the lunch box, without it exploding to get out of the seams. I just wish I could remember what I all fit on the previous day.