Students in Action
Students Promoting Sustainability
Sustainability Clubs
Thanks to our partnership with SWEP, we have active Sustainability Clubs that promote environmental stewardship on their campus and in the community. The Clubs connect students to the outdoors, their community and our local environment through comprehensive, action-oriented watershed education and service-learning projects.
TTUSD has three different types of Sustainability Clubs, based on the age of our students:
Green Teams (Elementary School)
Eco-Action (Middle School)
Envirolution Club (High School)
Our Sustainability Clubs utilize interactive educational service learning projects to empower students to be good global citizens working to ensure adequate resources for a clean and healthy environment. SWEP educators, along with high school student mentors, facilitate weekly club meetings with student participants to explore green service learning projects including:
- waste reduction
- reuse
- recycling
- gardening
- composting
- energy and water conservation
- energy awareness
- BMP restoration
- native planting
- pollution prevention
Through these projects and meetings, students work together to develop their knowledge, create a sense of civic responsibility, and foster a school environment that emphasizes sustainability. In so doing, they practice data collection, and monitoring, in addition to other important language arts, math and science skills.
Green Teams
Green Team students work on specific energy, water, and waste service projects at particular school sites. The team works to mentor other students, communicate and distribute important site improvement information. Green Team members conduct audits and present results to their school site.
Through the Green Teams, students are:
- Increasing awareness of the impact of their actions
- Developing knowledge of sustainable practices
- Creating outreach material including videos, posters, and signage to promote sustainability
Eco-Action
Club members work together on a community environmental service project, while also supporting school site needs around waste education and outreach. Club members do at least one waste audit during the school year.
Through Eco-Action, students are:
- Increasing awareness of the impact of their actions
- Developing knowledge of sustainable practices
- Creating outreach material including videos, posters, and signage to promote sustainability
Envirolution Club
Through our "Lead it, Live it" Trashion show assemblies and performances, high school youth empower younger students & community members to take action towards conservation measures in the areas of energy efficiency, water conservation, composting & recycling., Students make the unique Trashion outfits and create the commentary for the show that encourages positive action.
Through the Envirolution Club, students are:
- Increasing awareness of the impact of their actions
- Developing knowledge of sustainable practices
- Creating outreach material including videos, posters, and signage to promote sustainability
- Creating advocacy messages with youth voice in Trashion Show Assemblies and other community events