Welcome!

Workshop: Taking Climate Action Indoors!

1. Please sign in and grab a nametag!
2. Grab a refreshment!
3. If you haven’t already, please take the OEA EJC survey: www.tinyurl.com/OEAEJC
4. Open today’s agenda: www.tinyurl.com/ECCL282020

Taking Action Indoors!

ECCL Saturday #2

February 8, 2020

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“In the end, we’ll conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”

- Baba Dioum

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Objectives

1. Expand your own knowledge in areas of air, energy, water and waste.
2. Meet and learn from other teachers, staff and community partners in these indoor areas of focus.
3. Experience and engage with a variety of student action-oriented projects that you can bring back to your classrooms.

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Icebreaker

Spend a few minutes reviewing your selected item and filling out options for each of the 7 R’s.

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Once everyone in your group has completed their worksheet, take turns sharing your item and options to consider that can keep the item from going to the landfill.

Straws!

Video can be checked out to view with your students as a classroom activity or school assembly.

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Indoor Sustainability Initiatives

OUSD Green Gloves Program

Waste reduction and sorting initiatives

• Cafeteria sorting station/Food share carts
• Kitchen waste sorting
• Food Donation Program
• Classroom recycle sorting
• Campus sorting

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Resources

• Printed overviews and guides:
• Student green team monitoring
• Job duties
• Grabbers
• Aprons
• Custom signage
• Sorting activities

Support

• Site visits
• Printed materials
• Supplies:

bins, signage, green team material

• Waste audit kit through Science Dept
• Straws! Documentary

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ousd.org/greengloves

Nancy Deming - nancy.deming@ousd.org

OUSD Facilities: Energy & Sustainability

• Software to track and manage utility costs and usage
• Green Building and investments in energy efficient technologies
• Establishment of a Sustainability Revolving Fund
• Launching a Shared Savings Program (school sites get paid to save)
• Exploring Microgrid potential - Solar + Storage (PSPS Resilience)

Contact Brendan with your data needs (electric usage & production) brendan.havenar@ousd.org

Water in the District

1. 1 in __ water bottles are recycled
1. 3
2. 10
3. 5
4. 2

• Where was the first national tax on sugar sweetened beverages (sodas, etc.)?
• USA
• Sweden
• Philippines
• Mexico

• Which of these is not a way to encourage drinking more water?
• add natural flavors to water (like cucumber, orange, etc.)
• drink soda when you are thirsty
• carry a reusable water bottle
• drink water when you wake up and before going to bed

Water in the District

Supporting thriving students by providing equitable access to fresh, safe drinking water.

Promoting healthy, sustainable habits, like drinking more water and using reusable water bottles, decreasing consumption of sugar sweetened beverages.

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Context

• Rethink Your Drink programs + education
• Concerns + resolution around lead in school pipes
• Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax in Oakland

Water in the District

Supporting thriving students by providing equitable access to fresh, safe drinking water.

Promoting healthy, sustainable habits, like drinking more water and using reusable water bottles, decreasing consumption of sugar sweetened beverages.

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Flowater water stations installed at all school sites

What’s happening

Water Bottles @ CDC / elementary sites

October 2019

Water Bottles @ middle / high sites

Coming spring 2020

Water in the District

Supporting thriving students by providing equitable access to fresh, safe drinking water.

Promoting healthy, sustainable habits, like drinking more water and using reusable water bottles, decreasing consumption of sugar sweetened beverages.

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OUSD Water Promotion Toolkit

Promotion Activities

Wellness Champion + FoodCorps activities

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“Water Is Life” Water Design Contest for middle + high school

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Youth Leadership in Health & Wellness through All City Council + HOPE Collaborative

Upcoming meeting!

Health & Wellness All City Council Student Union Meeting

Tuesday, February 11, 4:30 - 6:00 pm

@ 1000 Broadway, Oakland, Suite 150

Contact lydia.yamaguchi@ousd.org Register at http://bit.ly/YouthWaterMeetingFeb2020

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The Center

Central Kitchen, Instructional Farm and Educational Center

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OUSD Central Kitchen, Education Program and Farm

Location: 2850 West Street (Former Marcus Foster Campus)

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Elements of the Building

1. State of the Art Kitchen
2. Classroom #1: Traditional Classroom
3. Classroom #2: Culinary Classroom
4. Classroom #3: Maker Space/Lab
5. Instructional Garden/Outdoor Pizza Oven/ Greenhouse/Tool Lending Library
6. Farm Stand
7. Phase 2: Acre Farm

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Goals for Kitchen/Food:

• Increased % of meals (breakfast, lunch, snack, supper) cooked from scratch
• Food that is not freshly prepared is minimally processed
• Increased fruits and vegetables
• Increased local, pesticide free and organic foods
• Less packaging and less waste
• Increased satisfaction among students, families and staff
• Increased meal participation
• Increased revenue

Oakland High Student Presentation

School Waste Audits

Lunch - Bon Appetit!

Sustainability Stations

We will split up into 4 groups.

Each group will start at a Sustainability Station and then rotate to the next station clockwise to experience each focus area.

Each station is about 25 minutes long.

Next Steps

1. Take a moment to reflect on the action you want to take. Complete My Next Steps
2. Find one or two people in this room you didn’t know at the beginning of today. It could be another teacher or a partner. Share your next steps and complete My Accountabuddy
3. Set a time to check in with that person about each other’s plans, completing Our Commitment to Follow Through

Opportunities!

a space to share opportunities with the community

Reflection: www.tinyurl.com/ECCLSaturdayFeedback

Raffle!

Thank you!