Green Team Newsletter - October 2016

JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL

OCTOBER 2016

Green Team Newsletter Meet the Green Team!

“Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start.” - October quote from Laudato Si’

Donate your old clothes to a shelter or your local Goodwill!

http://ignatiansolidarity.net/ignatian-carbon-challenge/ Hey Jesuit Crusaders! This year Jesuit High School’s Green Team is writing a newsletter every month! The newsletters will be focused around the Ignatian Carbon Challenge. Started at a Jesuit high school in Portland, Maine, the Ignatian Carbon Challenge has members from other Jesuit high schools all across the U.S. The challenge is based off of ideas present in the Pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’. The goal of the challenge is to reflect and take steps towards being more environmentally conscious. Come join us at our Green Team meetings to work together to achieve these goals! We plan to do this challenge on a school wide level, but we also encourage you to sign up individually! The challenge provides goals on a monthly basis. On the website you can see the progress of the challenge as a whole, along with tracking your own progress each month.

Turn off every other light in your classroom to save energy!

Committees of Your Green Team!

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EDUCATION

COMMUNICATION

EVENTS

Spreading awareness, changing attitudes, creating habits

Forming relationships, spreading awareness, creating solidarity

Making it happen, Inciting change, Creating opportunities

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Print DoubleSided whenever possible!

JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL

OCTOBER 12, 2016

EPA Clean Power Plan In 2015, President Obama and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) partnered together to create the Clean Power Plan. In short, this plan works to "cut carbon pollution from power plants" (EPA) in order to work towards a future of green energy.

Not only do fossil fuels emitted from power plants negatively effect our climate, but they also damages human health. By enacting the Clean Power Plan, the EPA estimates that it will prevent 3,600 premature deaths per year along with 300,000 missed work days.

1. reducing the carbon intensity of electricity generation by improving the heat rate of existing coal-fired power plants.

2. substituting increased electricity generation from lower-emitting existing natural gas plants for reduced generation from higher-emitting coal-fired power plants.

The plan works based on the BSER, or best system of emissions reduction, as determined by the EPA to work according to three "building blocks:

3. substituting increased electricity generation from new zero-emitting renewable energy sources (like wind and solar) for reduced generation from existing coal-fired power plants."

“the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against global climate change � - President Obama

States have until September of 2016 to decide whether they choose to implement a standard or plan or customize an individual system. They will then have 15 years to enact changes and reach their goals.

Come to this week's Green Team meeting: Tuesday, November 1 in room 18. We will be writing letters to our governor in support of the EPA Clean Power Plan and discussing more opportunities to get involved!

JOIN US!

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