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What if you started early?

June 8th, 2012 No comments

fourkids360What would the results be if you started teaching recycling and sustainability early in a child’s life? What if activities at the school focused on daily sustainable living? Things like recycling paper, plastics and food. Reducing consumption at every point of the school day. What if the students had their own community garden and spent time each day helping take care of that garden? What if food from the garden were a part of the daily school lunch or snacks? What if you taught the kids more about nutrition in a way they could see in concrete terms from dirt to plate? Would it be a way to change the behaviors of generations to come? Could it be a way to make sustainable living a natural part of that child’s life for years to come? Read more…