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EASE comes to Allen

The Energy Awareness and Sustainability Education (EASE) booth will be coming to Allen school on Wednesday, November 2.  The booth will bring awareness to energy and sustainability practices.  The booth will contain an idea tree for students to populate, a pledge for them to take, your building performance update and an interactive lighting display.  Students and staff will then have the opportunity to interact with the booth throughout the lunch period.

EASE Announcements for this week!

Monday, October 31

• What can you do to save enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours? Recycle an aluminum soda can.

Tuesday, November 1

• If you connected all the natural gas lines in the U.S. end-to-end how far would they reach? They would be long enough to go to the moon and back 4 times.

Wednesday, November 2

• Please remember to recycle glass bottles and jars. Glass made from recycled glass uses about one-third less energy than glass made from raw materials.

Thursday, November 3

• How long do you think it would take before all the oil is used up, using the known amount of available oil and at the present rate of consumption? It would take 40.6 years. Imagine a world without oil.

Friday, November 4

• Sixty percent of all computers and monitors are left on at night, and 40% of all monitors are not enabled for power management.  That is $900 million in electricity per year being wasted.  This electricity wasted is equivalent to the emissions of 1.5 million automobiles!

Ratatouille- For Real

Serving up Green Camps’ Cooking

In the AAPS Food Service Kitchens!

November 4^th

On Friday, November 4^th 2011, the lunch menus at (Insert your school name here) Elementary School will feature Rec&Ed’s Green Camp camper grown and cooked Ratatouille!  This French-inspired vegetable stew is chock full of heirloom organic tomatoes, eggplants, tomatillos, and scallions that were planted and cared for by students attending Green Camp last summer. 

In August, elementary students at Green Adventures Camp experienced a cooking lesson in the Pioneer High commercial kitchen. Under the direction of Chartwells’ chefs, campers used their homegrown produce in several recipes including ratatouille.  The food was then 'flash frozen' to be used for school lunches on this designated day.  This project was the result of a collaborative effort between Rec&Ed Green Adventures Camp, Chartwells (the AAPS food service provider), and the AAPS Farm to School Collaborative.

We hope your child enjoys the ratatouille at school on November 4^th.   Registration for Rec&Ed’s Green Adventures Camp will begin in February for Summer 2012.

It's been a fun and busy year!

I am back after a short hiatus from posting.   We have been busy MEAP testing the past few weeks and look forward to getting back to the routine of school.

A few fun and exciting things to look forward to:

Allen will Celebrate its 50 Year Celebration on November 6, 2011 from 2-4PM   We hope all current and former alumni staff and students will join us for this open house.

November 12th we have our awesome Silent Auction.   The event will be held at Genesis of Ann Arbor located on Packard Road from 7:00 - 9:30 PM.  Child Care is offered and the tickets are only $10.   Our Silent Auction Committee has been working tirelessly to obtain fabulous donations for this school fundraising event.   We hope you will join us for a fun adult evening.  

More to come......

Ms. Fitz