Inland Empire Green Team

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Ecological Initiatives to help the Inland Empire. Students working to better our local community.

Volunteer Opportunities

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What problems can we tackle in our area? Suggestions from students.

• Composting on campus
• Education on recycling
• Recycling bins/ small opening
• Community recycling on Crafton
• Recycling Signs
• Require community service 10 hours
• Community Garden
• Social media #trashtag
• Green Team Club
• Partner with other clubs, Ecology club
• Refill Stations
• Solar Panels
• Plant Trees
• Go Paperless

Topic for Proposal: Recycling and Crafton

1. Is the problem real? First we need to verify if there really is a recycling problem or lack of recycling program at Crafton.
   1. Look around. Are there recycling bin around campus?
   2. Talk to admin, facilities, maintenance, groundskeepers
2. Research the problem. Learn about the problem to pick a place that we can then try to fix.
   1. Recycling: each of these can be a paper topic for the proposal.
      1. Recycle bins
      2. Education
      3. Refill stations
      4. Money, profit
      5. Money, cost
      6. Green Club
      7. Different types of recycling and programs
      8. Fundraising if need be
      9. Reduce, reuse, recycle
      10. Composting
      11. Provide refill bottles
3. Research Solutions to the problem
   1. Solutions
   2. What others have done
   3. What has been done here
   4. What we need to fix

Sources and Inspiration

One Community Global https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/ Think tank working to solve global problems.

Precious Plastic https://preciousplastic.com/ Recycling plastics. Turning a problem into a resource.

Donor Box donorbox.org for fundraising.