Grant Winner Greens School, Offsets with Carbonfund.org
Erkin Ozberk on June 30th, 2009
Grimsley High School
Recent Grimsley High School graduate Will Leimenstoll of Greensboro, North Carolina set a great example of how to reduce what you can, offset what you can’t.
As Grimsley High School’s Sierra Club president this year, Leimenstoll applied for a $2,000 grant through Greensboro’s Teen Grant-Making Council. Sponsored by the Community Foundation of Greensboro the grant was intended to help the students make their school greener.
Upon winning the grant, the first expense went to support a professional energy audit. After receiving the results they decided to use the money to buy caulk and caulk classrooms throughout the school, and to buy Kill-A-Watt™ devices that will be used by the club to advise school leaders and teachers on how to save the most energy possible in future years.
With half of the grant spent on energy efficiency measures for the school students decided to spend the other half on Carbonfund.org reforestation offsets that are third-party verified. This donation means that Grimsley High School is offsetting 100 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions on top of the energy savings already made by the students.
Congratulations Will and the rest of the Grimsley High School Sierra Club. Keep up the good work in your future endeavors!
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It is always nice to involve the youth in such eco-friendly activities. This article shows that everyone can contribute and help mitigate climate change. Hopefully there will be more grants given to schools.