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星期四, 7月 16, 2015

QHS Environmental & Sustainability Club Hosts Quincy’s 3rd Annual Green Apple Day!

QHS Environmental & Sustainability Club Hosts Quincy’s 3rd Annual Green Apple Day!

As Club Leader of Quincy High School’s Environmental & Sustainability Club, Science Teacher Evaline Hsu ledThe Green Team QHS in hosting the City’s 3rd annual participation in Green Apple Day of Service - a global green initiative sponsored by the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council. The event was held in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) and in partnership with the City of Quincy Planning & Community Development Department (PCD). For the 3rd year in a row, Quincy’s participation in Green Apple Day of Service could not have been possible without the unwavering support of Mayor Thomas P. Koch, whose office continues to embrace opportunities that enhance Quincy’s Green Communities designation, and Dr. Richard DeCristofaro, Superintendent of Quincy Public Schools, who has welcomed student participation in the City’s broad-reaching sustainability initiatives.

In 2012 the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council hosted the first ever Green Apple Day of Service, marking Quincy’s first year of what has become an annual participation. Now in its fourth year, Green Apple Day projects are student sponsored events within which students, teachers, parents, and citizens can come together to support healthy safe and efficient schools and communities, while increasing awareness of the meaningful, lasting local and global impacts of sustainable living practices through individual actions. The Green Apple logo was a natural choice to promote these events because apples have been rooted in American tradition as a symbol of education since the 1920s. The symbol was adopted from a practice originating in Denmark and Sweden in the 1700s when poor families gave teachers apples in place of traditional payment. To this day, apples are common gifts given to teachers as a sign of gratitude.

Originally scheduled as part of the 2014 Green Apple Day of Service, the event got postponed due to stormy winter weather, but the students were undeterred and determined to hold the event when the weather cooperated. “HELP SAVE THE BEACH!!!” Wollaston Beach Clean Up was finally held on one of the most beautiful, sunny summer Saturdays! The event proved a tremendous success, showing a diverse turnout of community members committed to environmental stewardship. Because of Quincy’s annual participation in this event, the City was awarded a Green Apple Day mini-grant from the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council. The Green Team students used the award funding for the Wollaston Beach Clean-Up, designing their own posters and T-shirts which the team wore to help advertise the event, pictured below.

With its 27 miles of beautiful coastline, this event successfully achieved its goal of demonstrating the importance of celebrating and maintaining the aesthetic and ecological health of Quincy’s most prized amenity, as well as showing the importance of recycling. Why is recycling important? - because it conserves our natural resources, protects and preserves wildlife habitats, prevents the pollution of soil, sea, and sky, mitigates global climate change by reducing carbon emissions, supports public health, creates green jobs, and diverts thousands of tons of reusable trash from ending up in landfills. Best of all, recycling saves money and energy - and it’s as easy as a day at the beach!

One person can make a difference!
Please join The Green Team & PCD in making a difference in Quincy!!!
Mark your calendars for Quincy’s 4th annual participation in Green Apple Day of Service, which will take place on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015.



The Green Team QHS Hosts Successful Green Apple Day of Service Event:
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Stephanie Lopez, Physics teacher Evaline Hsu, & 
        Wollaston Yacht Club’s Will Hannigan
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   QHS Science Dept. Chair Ed Smith and The      
    Green Team QHS Club leader Evaline Hsu

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Stephanie LopezVivian ZouAnna Zheng                                                        


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                      Matthew Pham                                     Yusra Ahmed, Manal Khan, Maysoon Khan

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Wollaston Beach Clean-Up Volunteers (l-r): Habib Jacq Laracy-Karim, Evaline Hsu, Anna Zheng,
Stephanie Lopez, Manal Khan, Maysoon Khan, Yusra Ahmed, John Dinh, Matthew Pham 

The Green Team QHS Wollaston Beach                      Clean-Up Volunteers

The Green Team Logo designed by QHS student Stephanie Lopez

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Susan C. Karim
Assistant Planner
Dept of Planning & Community Development
City of Quincy
34 Coddington Street, 3rd Floor
Quincy, MA 02169
617-376-1372

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