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The Ecological Compass
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What's that, you say? There is no "K" in sustainability? Precisely. But the folks 
Green your school inside, outside and throughout your curriculum! Join 43 other countries in this international initiative designed to encourage whole-school action for the environment.
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It seems everywhere I go these days, another restaurant is serving drinks in "biodegradable" plastic cups and food with potatoware disposable cutlery. And it really bugs me. But why would I be against making wasteful disposable plastic a little greener, you ask? Because without coupling the use of these biodegradable plastics with the ability to recover them, we are reinforcing a false sense of responsibility that we are doing good by the environment when we really aren't. If the composting infrastructure is not in place to recover the bio-material from that corn-based cup, it's really no better than the ubiquitous red plastic keg cup.