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Full Name: Tara Tuchscherer
School/Organization: St. James Collegiate
Grades/Ages: 9-12
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Sustainable Swap Week
Posted on: 03 May 2019 No CommentsAction: We held a week of "sustainable swaps" over the lunch hour for all interested students. We wanted to show students and staff the options we had for all of the single use plastic we use daily. The EcoJimmies, our school's sustainability group, were inv...
Read MoreStevenson Compost Expansion
Posted on: 09 May 2018 No CommentsAction: We secured more funding to build a 3-bin composter for Stevenson Elementary School. We have a dedicated team of students who will be spending the day at the school with some help from Compost Winnipeg to build the bins on site. Students from both sch...
Read MoreLet’s Compost
Posted on: 16 May 2017 No CommentsAction: The St. James Collegiate Sustainability group (EcoJimmies) met with the Linwood Sustainability group (TeamGreen) to discuss the composting initiative at Linwood School. Linwood School is a local elementary school that many of our students attended wh...
Read MoreSt. James’ Sustainability Project
Posted on: 06 Dec 2016 No CommentsAction: On November 7, 2016 our action team participated in LSF's Youth Leadership Forum in Winnipeg where we attended workshops and learned about small things that can have a big impact on your ecological footprint, watersheds, colonization, and the differe...
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