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Mini-Grant#: 12-94 Valley Montessori School,VMS Compost Project,Livermore, East County,$1,000.00-Funds
<br /> from this grant will be used to host 10 compost workshops to teach students,teachers,parents and volunteers the process
<br /> of composting from the classroom to the garden. From these workshops students and teachers will gain the knowledge to
<br /> implement a doable compost program that successfully supports the school's Edible Garden.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-95 Christensen Middle School,No More Plastic Spoons,Livermore,East County,$105.97—
<br /> Funds from this grant will be used to eliminate plastic silverware at the Christensen Middle School and replace it with
<br /> reusable stainless steel silverware.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-96 Amador Valley High School,Virtual Dissections Eliminate Waste,Pleasanton,East County,
<br /> $1,000.00-Funds from this grant will be used to purchase software for virtual animal dissections to be used each year in
<br /> place of actual animal dissections.By using this software the school will eliminate the waste of each of the dissected
<br /> animals,the gloves,paper towels and other items used in each dissection.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-97 Amelia Earhart Elementary School,Amelia Earhart Community"Kinder-Garden",
<br /> Alameda,West County,$996.99-Funds from this grant will be used to structure monthly lessons for parent facilitators
<br /> and teachers to engage staff and parents in partnering to develop a garden program geared toward educating
<br /> kindergarteners in the area of environmental sustainability. This project will bring awareness to the role of all living
<br /> things and promote the responsibility that each person has to honor and sustain life,including plants,animals and insects.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-98 Castlemont High School,Castlemont Recycle Program,Oakland,West County,$1,000.00—
<br /> Students at Castlemont will be using these funds to purchase recycle bins,setting up,running and maintaining the first
<br /> school wide recycling program on campus. Students from(3) SUDA(Sustainable Urban Design Academy)English
<br /> classes will be responsible for setting up,collecting and sorting recycling from all classrooms and main offices on
<br /> campus.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-99 Washington Elementary School,Bee Green: Washington Elementary's Waste Diversion
<br /> Initiative,Berkeley,West County,$988.00-Grant funds will be used to purchase recycling bins and materials to create
<br /> informational signage for inside and outside the buildings to help students recycle items correctly.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-100 John Muir Elementary School,Compost to Chickens,San Leandro,West County,$860.00—
<br /> Grant funds will be used to purchase pails to enhance the schools food scrap program along with a bio-pod composter that
<br /> will accommodate meat food scraps and turn them into high protein larvae for chicken feed. Large wood signs will also
<br /> be made to assist students with proper sorting.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-101 Jessica Jane Robinson,Reduction of Methane Gas Emission Recycle and Compost 101
<br /> Presentations,Alameda,West County,$1,000.00-Funds from this grant will be used to purchase equipment needed to
<br /> perform further outreach and make presentations about the importance and recycling and composting,how to maximize
<br /> waste reduction and reduce methane gas emissions.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-102 Jefferson Elementary School PTA,Jefferson Elementary Green School Initiative,Berkeley,
<br /> West County,$830.00-Funds from this grant will be used to purchase recycling bins,signage material,and green waste
<br /> composters to increase recycling in the cafeteria and other areas of the school.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-103 Food Shift,Food Shift,Oakland,West County,$1,000.00-Grant funds will be used for Earth
<br /> Island Institute/Food Shift to launch a food waste awareness and action campaign in November of 2012. Food Shift will
<br /> educate communities and engage businesses around the economic,social and environmental impacts of food waste and
<br /> will provide tangible tips,tools and resources to inspire food related behavior changes.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-104 Martin Luther King Middle School,Composting Bins for Classroom,Berkeley,West
<br /> County,$1,000.00-Funds from this grant will be used to purchase bins to be used in individual classrooms to collect
<br /> food waste created by the Universal Breakfast program which currently creates waste going to the landfill.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-105 Spirit of the Sea,Marine Debris Education Modules, Emeryville,West County,$1,000.00—
<br /> Funds from this grant will be used to launch a set of hands on activity modules that teach awareness of a situation(debris,
<br /> pollution,waste),understanding of cause and effect(watersheds,human involvement)and skills for contributing to
<br /> community discourse(scientific,methodology,modeling behavior change).
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-106 De Colores Head Start,Vermicomposting Indoor Composting with red wigglers,Oakland,
<br /> West County,$852.81-Red Worms is a controlled process of decomposition used to transform organic material such as
<br /> kitchen scraps,yard wastes and paper products into compost. Funds from this grant will be used to purchase a compost
<br /> tumbler and other items used to improve the schools composting setup.
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