How do I start an eco club at my school?

Question

I want to start an eco-friendly club at my school, the only problem is, I won't have any adults help, but the school lets kids run their own clubs at school, and we have many empty classrooms (my middle school used to be a highschool, so we have tons of space). I want to do things to help the enviroment, but I need some advice on what to do because I don't want to act all leader-like saying what we have to do and when, and all I can think of doing is cleaning up trash around the perimeter of the school and the woods across the street (if I can get an adults help), and picking up the recycling from the bins in classrooms, anything else? By the way, I'm only in 7th grade.

Answer 1

Hmm...perharps u could aproach yr geography teacher for help.

You made a great idea of promoting an eco club in yr school.

Recycling is a great way to go green.

Good luck for yr eco club!!

Answer 2

I am recycling things people throw away to help abuse victims.  I help kids get projects going too!  my website is warriorwomyn31.tripod.com  If you find a neighborhood organization, food shelf or homeless shelter they can always use money and you could use the recycling as a way to educate your community .  April is Child Abuse Prevention Month  Just an idea...  There are places that pay you money for things people just throw away.  Like aluminum cans, ink jet cartriges and DVD's etc.

Answer 3

Congratulations on wanting to improve your environment.  Encourage your members to learn about indoor plants, worms and global warming.

The NASA Clean Air Plant Study is an unbiased source of information. It gives you examples of why everyone should have an indoor plant in every room or office space.

Organic fertilizer from worms are the best source of plant food. Vermacast or worm p**p is the most nutritious and best fertilizer know to man. Vermaculture is the latest in organic fertilizers.

Having more live indoor plants it will make your home and work environments healthier by absorbing carbon dioxide and all toxic fumes and replacing it with oxygen.

Good luck on your eco-friendly club.

Answer 4

First of all, props on having such a great idea.

Secondly, as you'll probably learn, if you want to get things done you'll have to be "leader-like."  It's being overtly bossy you want to avoid.  But if you don't set dates and activities, it might be harder to get support.  I don't know what your school is like or the people there, but that's what I've seen from my experience with clubs.

Emptying the recycling bins is a great way to start, and so is cleaning up trash.

Here's some other ideas:

-Make announcements or put up posters about club activities and also about ways to help the environment (if you need some, use Google or another search engine and research a bit).  Examples of ideas you could share with the school include eco-friendly ways to clean without harsh chemicals, and information on recycling programs in the community, ways to minimize personal ecological impact (like ways to conserve water, electricity, etc.).  

-Have a fundraiser (bake sale, t-shirt sale, anything creative) to get any materials you might need and to raise awareness of your group.  You could also put this money towards adopting an acre of rainforest or contributing to a green cause, if you raise enough.

-Make signs reminding people to use recycling bins at school, or providing facts about recycling, environmental issues, or whatever.

And be creative.  Once you get the group together and have a meeting, brainstorm ideas.

above all, don't get discouraged.  Just because you're in seventh grade doesn't mean you can't make a difference.

Good luck.

Answer 5

Re-cycling is a great place to get started.

You could also discourage waste, like lunch bags.

Get class-rooms to use separate bins for paper types:

Newsprint, fine/bond paper, cardboard, construction, etc.

If the city doesn't collect, approach the school-board.

Otherwise, get a local paper dealer to buy it.

Our scout troop once delivered YellowPages directories.

We asked people for their old ones, one third gave them.

We made more money selling the old ones to a dealer.

Pop-cans & plastic bottles & other plastics are good too.

But you need a dealer to buy them or pick them up.

A really neat project is vermiculture for lunch scraps.

You could also compost leaves & grass clippings.

Do some internet searches.