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=**Charleston County School District Sustainable Schools Wiki** =

**Welcome to CCSD's Green Liaison Wiki site. T****his site will serve as a useful tool to share information and facilitate discussion about CCSD's Sustainable Schools Initiative. On this site, you can share documents that everyone will be able to access and edit. This will allow you to collaborate without having to email around multiple documents.**

On the navigation bar to the left, you will find several pages addressing each of our four initiative areas. Please use these pages to share ideas, brainstorm, and view current green news, tools, and material shared at all liaison meetings. On the discussion tab shown above, you will find a discussion board for each liaison sub-committee. Please feel free to use these to communicate and share ideas outside of meetings, as well as add additional discussion groups and pages as you see fit. If you need assistance with any of this, please do not hesitate to contact Maggie Harrelson Dangerfield, CCSD's Sustainable Schools Initiative Coordinator via email or phone at 843-566-1962 or 843-259-6251.

__**Sustainable Schools Initiative Goals:**__
 *  **Sustainable, Healthy Schools** for current and future generations
 *  **Sustainable Construction** to meet the needs of growing minds in a growing world
 *  **Sustainable Curriculum** to enable our students to become stewards of their environment and community

__**Four Initiative Areas:**__
 * 1) **Awareness**
 * 2) **Recycling**
 * 3) **Curriculum**
 * 4) **Energy and Resource Conservation**

__Recent Accomplishments__
 * 100% of CCSD facilities have paper and/or comingled recycling programs
 * 3 Year Energy Conservation Rebate Program Savings of $1.1 million to district
 * $1.29 million grant awarded for motion sensor lights in 1,016 classrooms and cooling tower updates
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No Idling Policy adopted at numerous schools within the district
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All schools are “Clean Zone” certified (only use green cleaning products)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Formal partnership between Charleston County Recycling Center and CCSD
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Composting pilots initiated at selected elementary schools

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__Future Goals__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Educate students and staff on energy efficient practices, recycling, waste reduction, resource conservation, and sustainability awareness
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">100% participation by all CCSD facilities in recycling paper, cardboard, & comingled recyclables
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">100% participation by CCSD cafeterias in recycling #10 cans, plastic containers, cardboard, and other recyclables generated in the process of food preparation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop sustainability curriculum resource made easily accessible to all CCSD faculty for use in classrooms
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Continued update of facilities with energy efficient systems & native landscapes