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Have a Green Halloween

Local Foods Slow Foods - Gala

E-WASTE DRIVE POSTER

Placed Based Learning and PBL University

Scrumptious Recycled Halloween Snack

Precycle and skip the recycling

America Recycles at CC schools!

Green Halloween 1

Sustainable Sandhills Gala 2

America Recycles Part 1 3

Place Based Learning University 4

Halloween Recycled Snack 4

Precycling 5

America Recycles Part 2

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Halloween is fun and games, but it isn't just about getting candy, bobbing for apples and winning prizes for cos-tumes. This Halloween think about helping others while helping the planet. Practice the 3 "r"s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Here are some quick tips from Planetpals to help you share and care:

Share your can-dy with a less for-tunate friend.

Have your

class collect do-nations for a good cause.

Make a recycle costume out of recycled materials such as cardboard, cans, paper, old clothes or tin foil.

Think of ways you can recycle or reuse the candy wrappers and candy bags.

Have a Green Halloween Party

Have a costume swap

Have some healthy Halloween food-with friends and classmates

Decorate mak-ing recycled crafts

Recycle your pumpkin, by mak-ing delicious dishes and drying the seeds. You can find plenty of recipes for these!

Donate your cos-tume and decora-tions to a thrift shop or swap shop when Halloween is over.

Save your decora-tions to use again next year.

You're only limited

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think of more ideas!

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2014-15 Planet Pals: Have a Green

Halloween http://

www.planetpals.com/green-halloween.html

prise...but this time, the location

isn't secret but the Slow Food Au-

tumn menu is. Something new-

your tickets will be coming in the

mail or picked up from the Sustain-

able Sandhills CSA Gathering Site

(Thursdays, Transportation Muse-

um Annex from 1:30PM-5:30PM).

And yes, we will be setting

things on fire.

*Why the SkyView? Great big

space, local food lovers, oh and the

best fire extinguishers in town.

Trust us.

NO TICKETS can be purchased at

the door. Guests must be on

theTicket Waitlist in order to secure

a ticket and tickets will be available

You! Yeah, YOU, the Local Food He-

ro! Go to the Sustainable Sandhills

Website for tickets to the Fresh

Chef Competition, the Autumn Slow

Food PopUp Dinner on Thursday,

November 6th.

Details: 6PM Arrival

Open Bar: Fire & Pine Cocktails

Food Stations with Zero Waste- all

plates, utensils, and napkins will be

composted.

Iron Chef Competitionwith Judges

pulled from the Pillars of the Com-

munity

Location: SkyView on Hay, 121 Hay

Street, Fayetteville*

Dress Code: show us your Green

Something old- a PopUp Sur-

starting October

8th online through PayPal or by

check made out to Sustainable

Sandhills and delivered to PO Box

144, Fayetteville, NC.

The Fresh Chef Competition fea-

tures a Slow Food Fall Menu

sourced within 80-miles of Fayette-

ville, NC. Tickets and Table Spon-

sorships benefit Sustainable

Sandhills, our local environmental

agency working for Clean Air, Clean

Water, Green Schools, and Green

Business in the Sandhills. For more

information, see the Sustainable

Sandhills website, our Facebook

page or Twitter.

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Get your TICKETS

Enough waiting. Get 'em fresh!

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Please share and post. Thanks

Or sprinkle with cinnamon or pumpkin

spice and stevia

Or Garlic powder, cumin and lime juice

Place Based Learning University for Teachers http://pblu.org/

In 2012, the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) received a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to help provide more deeper learn-ing opportunities for teachers and students. With this fund-ing, BIE conducted a beta pilot of PBLU. Building on that experience, BIE created PBLU 2.0 and relaunched in April 2014. This version of PBLU includes exciting new projects from partner organi-zations and sponsored classes by BIE. How does PBLU work? Making Projects Click. In PBLU, you can download projects and enroll in classes about Project Based Learning. The projects have been designed by BIE and its partners to allow you to focus mainly on how to implement a project rather than how to design one.

The classes are developed and facilitated by BIE, and focus on project design, manage-ment and assessment. Just like a Kickstarter project needs a minimum amount of funding for it to happen, our classes need a minimum number of people to enroll for the class to take place. If the minimum is not met by the deadline, the class will be cancelled.

Will PBLU continue to be free? Sponsored classes will be offered. We will continue to offer sponsored classes that are free to participants, but they will have limited spaces available. In the future, there could be classes that have a nominal fee.

The Terms of Service are availa-ble online.

The Privacy Policy is availa-ble online.

Are private online PBLU classes available for my school or district? Yes. Simply send a request for services with BIE for private

classes open only to your teachers.

Example of Place Based Learning Projects

Design It Clean In the Design It Clean project, students work in teams to de-velop water filters that are de-pendable, affordable, and can provide clean water for specif-ic communities in the real world. Engineering, Science 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Grade

We’re on the Web!

gogreen.ccs.k12.nc.us

Our Mission Statement:

The Cumberland County Green Schools Initiative is established to provide resources for our school

community to create a climate in which the 5 guiding principles of sustainability can be developed and

implemented for each school. The principles’ that guide our community are energy and water conserva-

tion and efficiency; reduce, reuse, and recycle our waste and pollutants. We work toward becoming

stewards of our natural resources through conservation as well as the applying the other principles of

sustainability we have adopted when using our resources.

The last principle, to lead by education and awareness; is to establish the habits that will decrease our

footprint in our community for our future generations. Our mission is to promote environmental re-

sponsibility and develop skills to become environmentally literate citizens for ourselves and our stu-

dents. We will promote change toward sustainability in modeling through example and informing

through education. Our staff and students commit to educating for sustainability and modeling these

practices as well as promoting pollution control, waste reduction, recycling, water and energy conserva-

tion and efficiency.

Our Goals:

Teach our members**, both adult and youth, to become environmentally literate participants in our

community; learning to find equitable, sustainable solutions in our complex world.

Invite other members of our community, who share our resources to become environmentally literate

and practice sustainable living along with us.

Create discussions within our community to work toward sustainability and environmental literacy

thereby increasing awareness and participation. Work within our community to find the best solu-

tions for implementing our 5 guiding principles of sustainability and understand what it means to be

Gre en S chool s P rog ram

Gl oria T homas Lengel

Email : g l oi ra len gel@ ccs .k12.n c.us

Richard Horne

Email : r ic hard horn e@ ccs .k12.n c.us

Operations

810 Gillespie St.

Fayetteville, North Carolina

Phone: 910.678.7046

Fax: 910.678.7043

PreCycling Obviously, there are times when disposable items or buying in bulk are not as practical, such as traveling or picnics. The trick to all this, is to limit. We can take responsibility by changing our daily habits. Precycling may take a little more work in some cas-es...but an ounce of prevention is the main ingredient!

Plan ahead using reusable bags when you shop.

Buy in bulk and share with family or co-op with like minded friends.

Buy products with the least amount of packaging.

Buy recycled packed products.

Don’t buy disposable items the just fill the land fill.

Use cloth napkins and rag towels for messes on the face and any-where else.

Look for long term items, the price for LED;s is dropping.

Read labels for ingredients stay

away from chemicals that can harm organisms and deplete the land.

Be aware of #3 plastics and also stay away from Styrofoam which is # 6 and Other which is # 7. They can out gas and be toxic.

Say NO to Thermal receipts they have BEP which is read-ily absorbed into the skin and is toxic. How can you tell? Use your fingernail to make a mark on the front… It thermal.

If it is paper, glass, metal, plastics 1-4 they are easier to recycle.

Thanks to Planet pals for the recycling tips.

http://www.planetpals.com/precycle.html