Last year, Staples’ Club Green won $5,000 in CL&P’s “Live Green Win Green” contest. The money helped fund EcoFest, and paid for recycling bins for the school and athletic fields.
This year, club members helped bring in a double-sided printer for the library. It saves 350 reams of paper a year — that’s $1,000, for those who care more about money than trees.
Club Green also hopes to make EcoFest — the yearly environmental/music festival — better than ever.
They’d also like to win that $5,000 again. Or $20,000.
“06880” readers can help. Public voting begins tomorrow (Wed., March 9) — just click here. (You can vote multiple times each day. Hey, it works for Chicago.)
After voters winnow the field, judges pick the final winners. The grand prize is 20 grand.
Club Green members (from left) Brett Adelglass, Sarah Fox, Ben Meyers, Dan Navarro, Harry Stuttard, Nicole Brill, Swheta Lawande, Caroline Foster, Mike Aitkenhead (advisor), Alex Krayson, Robby Gershowitz.
Thanks for the plug, this is great! One tiny note: the printer in the library installed this year was brought in by the district from storage essentially. It was already bought and wasn’t even being used, so we’re truly saving money!
Voting should last two weeks, so hopefully we keep up good progress!
Thanks!
tried 2x
cannot vote
Try this: http://clpenvironments.com/LiveGreenWinGreen_voting.php
Otherwise, underneath where it says “2010-2011 Peoples Choice voting has begun” it also says (in lighter letters): “Check out all the submissions here!” — That’s where a drop-down menu lists Staples, and other schools.
You can view entries, but how do you vote?
Try this: http://clpenvironments.com/LiveGreenWinGreen_voting.php
Otherwise, underneath where it says “2010-2011 Peoples Choice voting has begun” it also says (in lighter letters): “Check out all the submissions here!” — That’s where a drop-down menu lists Staples, and other schools.
Thanks for guiding the voters, Dan. The site was down around 11 this morning when those commenters were having trouble, so that could have been part of the problem
Go Staples!