Thank you Teagle!

As most of you know, the Green Team is one of the programs that is made possible with the support of the Teagle Foundation. We would like to thank them for the wonderful program and activities we have done so far and we really look forward to stuff to come!

THANK YOU TEAGLE FOUNDATION!!

For more information about the Teagle Foundation, check out their website at http://www.teaglefoundation.org/

See you this summer!

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations to the girls who participated in the Green House contest during the Earth Day Expo. (Sadia, Armanie, Camielle, and Maya) They were one of two winning teams that was awarded a beautiful "earth-friendly" plaque! Go to the trophy case at the UA Institute to check it out!!

Earth Day Shirts

On Tuesday, the girls and I decided to create Earth Day shirts to wear around the school. We decided to take the class outside (in the courtyard) since it was so beautiful out. We took regular white shirts and, using markers, created t-shirt masterpieces.

No Impact Man

Today the girls from The Green Team watched the movie, No Impact Man. It is a documentary about how Colin Beavan and his family examine their lifestyle to see how they can alter it in a way to provide no net impact on the environment for one whole year. Though the changes may seem drastic, it showed how one family's actions can make a difference. By blogging about their experiences, it created mass media attention. Even though there was much criticism, they managed to do their part in "impacting" others to examine their lifestyles and see what they can do to have less impact on the planet.

Earth Day Expo

Hello and welcome to the new semester of the Green Team! Last week we talked about our new project, the Earth Day Green Expo! We're very excited that National Grid and NYU-Poly are supporting our celebration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Over the next weeks we will be working on how to "Green the Home you Have" competition so stay tuned for some tips and updates on our progress!

By Tonlyna McNair

Elizabeth Adesanya

       Today in the green team, we are  talking about fixing our school for the better and using unwanted materials to make new things and  the company that embraces this process is called TERRACYCLE. We are also talking about improving the sustainability rate in our school. We are thinking of planting herbs in our school kitchen, constructing a green roof, making a recycling shoot, etc.

Great Green New Year News

In this newspaper story we learned that we are not limited to one type of brick. We can also use fire clay or even better we can use GREEN walls.  A green wall is a wall that allows you to grow plants and that is way better to keep a garden. A green wall is made up of metal and steal.  It is designed to allow plants to be watered upside down.  It lets you have clean air and a fresh garden.  In new york city there is more space for gardens on walls than on roof tops.  We were surprised to find out that the amount of wall space is equal to land from new york to california! 

BY SLOAN HANDBERY AND JORDAN OLIVIER   

Climate Quilt

Our girls were part of an environmental global awareness project, the climate quilt.
Check the girls out in this video. We had 15 green team students at our event.

Green Team: service day

Through Girl's Inc. the green team volunteered at a local roof top farm. Watch the video below.

Goodbye 4 now

This summer we did amazing things. For the two weeks of summer that we been here we've planted sages,lettuces, broccoli, and oregano but during the process finished the courtyard but everything looks really good

FAREWELL!!!!!

This summer 13 girls from the uainstitute has gathered to start a go green summer program. In this program we learned how to make and keep the environment and planet we live in green and clean. we also took our plain courtyard and turned it into a green beautiful place that our fellow students including ourselves will enjoy with the help of ms. ellen the designer of our courtyard in which we really appreciated. I would also like to to thank ms. kelly o'connor, and mr. noam pilliscn for teaching us how to become more green, and different ways of  living to keep our planet safe. thankyou to ms. kelly D and ms. kiri soares for getting  us interested in the go green program, last but not least i would like to thank ms. mara for supplying our materials and helping organizing all of our trips especially the habanna outpost trip that food is delicious. Well thats it for now until next time 

by: surquonna soleyn

go green

Goodbye for now

Well maya is going away for a little while because she has school and has done very hard work and will continue working though out the year. This is her long time dedication to finish this court yard and bring it to life. She will be working on it for the next four years until she knows she has done all she can. 

P.S This summer was the best except for the rain because I felt I did something great and in the end it will be beautiful.

GoodBye For Now From Quaisan P.

This has been an overwhelming journey. For the past 5 weeks, we learned how to build, plant, and how to work with others. The class "Go Green" teaches us more about our environment, and taking step by step to learn the basics of going green and saving the earth. This environmental class has showed us how to plant, recycle, and other sources of 

making the world a better place.  

                                                                   Thank You, Quaisan P.

Goodbye For Now

For the starting of this program I began a week after. When I came we were painting outside in our backyard with green and yellow paint in a pattern like way. After a few weeks pass we started to paint water bottles so that we could put the plants that are growing could go in there. After we went into another room to build boxes so that the plant could fit. My favorite part of this program was when we painted out side. I say this because it was very fun and every one came together to do something that they all liked even though we got some paint on us!!!

By: Rema Bryce

Good Bye For Now

This past five weeks has been an overwhelming journey full of joy, excitement, anticipation, and finally  disappointing departure.

I can still remember the first day when we were all ecstatic over the thought of what was to come later on in the program. During the program we learned how to save energy, reduce reuse, recycle, how to interact with others, saving the environment and having fun at the same time. I can't wait for next time.

                                                                              ~Emoni Logan~

Goodbye for Now....

Wow its over?! Hmm time does fly by fast.... We have accomplish so much from painting for weeks, planting our garden that is filled with oregano, lettuce, sage, and broccoli, building our benches and plant boxes. While working on the green team we have shared some good times and bad times, like visiting (to me) the most beautiful green roof in wall street. Also i have gain a lot from this process, like just one person can make a very big difference in the world....MAJOR CARTER wow she is one AWESOME black woman!! Through out this course one thing thats stuck with me is just one person can make a very big difference with a great mind and heart. 

By: Kayonda Marshall

Green Team Logo

                                                     The display of a go green project

                                                  People viewing the displayed projects

                                               Tawana presenting her project to the crowd

                     People talking and asking questions at the green team logo presentations

                                         A student presenting her green team logo project  

Our building pictures

Mr. Seal and the students shifting the flower bed to make the diagonal measurements of the flower bed accurate.

       Blue tape showing the parts where the flower beds are supposed to be placed

                  Emoni, Quaisan and Rema painting recyclable bottles for the new plant pots.
     

Our finished product.

Oneesha putting together the joints of the wood 

                                  Kayonda and tamara smoothing the edges of the flower bed

                                      Tamara smoothening the edges of the flower bed parts

                              Mr. Seal, Tamara, Elizabeth and Kayonda measuring the parts of the flower                                                      bed to make sure that they are correct.

Solar 1 trip and photos

Sarah shows us the clams that they put in the east river

Shows us a crab that eats the oysters of nature causes because of there prey(they use these osyters to test how clean the water is and to filter the water)

Up-close version of the small crab (note that these crabs have one claw due to evolution)





Iyliyya shows another classmate at solar one how the turbines work to create eletricity

Mosi was reading a card that shows how electricity is created

Oneesha shows us her solar card as it spins when sunlights hits our miniature solar panel


Chrislene shows her almost finish solar car that has a little motor,gears and a piece of wood to hold it all together

A complete system of a power plant that we use in New York City

Mosi shows us how to compress the wheels on a metal small rod

All our materials that we need to used to create our solar cars (solar panels, four wheels, 2 gears,motor, a thin piece of wood to hold everything together)



Iyliyyla is taking out all her materials to get started on her solar car

Chrislene shows off her fabulous solar car that moves a little on this cloudy day

Maya and Oneesha show off there fabulous solar cars that move somewhat in the cloudy day

Sarah shows us how the motor is going to be attached with a glue gun