By Sophie Bishop Creating a building that is sustainable and energy efficient is a challenge for the next generations. We need to think of the future with climate change and how we can cut down on greenhouse gas output and costs. Kitty Stratton, Super Energy Efficient Design Consultant, and Gary Schollmeier, a renewable energy expert, came to Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) on March 5th and 6th to
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Westbrook-Walnut Grove Volunteer Day 2016
Guest Blog Post by the WWG YES! Team On Wednesday, October 19, the WWG Earth YES! team invited all high school to help start a year of giving back to the community. These students took the first part of their M.E.A. break to help rake neighborhood lawns. Bringing their own rakes, over 50 kids showed up to support the effort started by 10 Earth YES! Students. The students in Earth YES! wanted to
Earth Day Events with YES! Partners and YES! Teams
Helps us celebrate the 46th anniversary of Earth Day by joining YES! partners and teams in their various Earth Day celebrations. 1. Visit Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center on Saturday, April 23rd for the Earth Day Expo. There will be great activities and information surrounding the theme "Glup, Glup, What's up with the water in your cup?". Location: Prairie Woods ELC (12718 10th St NE,
WWG YES! Project: Trombe Wall
This is a guest blog post by the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) YES! Team Recently, the WWG Earth YES! Class has been working on one of their recent winter projects, the Trombe Wall Project. To start off the project, they needed to experiment the effectiveness of the Trombe walls. At the start, they constructed two miniature boxes for the experiment. The WWG students built the testable miniature
WWG YES! Project Heating Up: Solar Pop Can Heaters
This is a guest blog post by the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) YES! team March 25: We have just finished our second model of the solar pop can heater. Our next step is to take it outside and test it. We are hoping to find a larger degrees difference with this bigger model. Stay tuned to see our results! March 14: The WWG Earth YES! team has finished and tested our first solar pop can heater. It
WWG Earth YES! Class Educates Elementary Students
This is a guest post by the WWG Earth YES! Class On February 24th 2016, WWG Earth YES! team went to the WWG Elementary and had a presentation about recycling. We presented to students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. We taught them what recycling is, what impact landfills have on animals, and what can and cannot be recycled. We also incorporated a game that went with the presentation to. We