Accomplishments of 2007

We are a group of environmentally conscious people made up of teachers, parents, and board members. Our aim to increase environmental awareness at ISB and more importantly, start making positive environmental changes to reduce the school’s Eco (carbon) footprint.

Green Panther goals are to improve ISB’s environmental performance by:

• Activating environmental awareness, learning, and action
• Analyzing consumption patterns and habits at ISB
• Modeling responsible citizenship
• Providing venues for meaningful social action
• Reducing our impact on the environment

Some of the things the Green Panthers and ISB have done in 2006-2007 are:

• School wide eco survey
• Improved recycling center that collects batteries, tabs from cans, juice boxes, printer cartridges, and cell phone batteries
• Have added very useful recycling containers throughout the school for bottles, cans, and paper
• Blue box for each class for paper recycling
• Reduced the plastic bag use in the cafeteria
• Had a student logo contest
• Stopped the use of paper cups for sports teams and helped encourage teams to use reusable water bottles
• Reduced the amount of water bottles delivered because of a switch to water dispensers
• Weekly eco tips in student bulletin
• Weekend trip with 25 students to Khai Yai to work with Wildaid and learn about conservation
• Had meetings with architect to ensure new building and campus design has the environment in mind
• Bought 1000’s of dishes to use at events instead of disposable materials.Hosted environmental assemblies
• Designed Green Panther t-shirts and stickers based on the student logos
• Implemented a NO idling policy in the parking lot
• We have shown the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ to all of the middle school and the high school
• This was built into curriculum and had amazing teacher support.We hosted Earth Week from April 23-27, culminating in a massive Earth Fair with several companies, NGO’s, organizations and students showing what they do for the environment