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Crescent Valley High School Sustainable School Initiative

A sustainable society is one that survives without doing irreparable environmental harm and without depleting Earth's capital, and that meets the needs of its current generation without jeopardizing the needs of future generations of humans and of other species.

Sustainability Guiding Objectives

A Framework for Decision-Making (Based on The Natural Step Information)

Our school/school district community will:

1. Reduce and ultimately eliminate our contribution to fossil fuel dependence and to wasteful use of scarce metals and minerals. Use renewable resources whenever possible.

2. Reduce and ultimately eliminate our contribution to dependence upon persistent chemicals and materials and wasteful use of synthetic substances. Use biologically safe products whenever possible.

3. Reduce and ultimately eliminate our contribution to the degradation of natural systems (e.g., land, water, wildlife, forests, soil, and ecosystems). Protect natural ecosystems.

4. Support people’s capacity to meet their basic needs fairly and efficiently. Use products manufactured consistent with human rights whenever possible (e.g., fair trade, no sweatshop or child labor).

Corvallis Sustainability Information

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition www.sustainablecorvallis.org

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Long Range Goals (Proposed Long-Range Goals.pdf)

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Long Range Goals That Match Sustainable School Initiative (Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Goals)

Corvallis Green City Document (Sustainability/GreenCity.pdf)

Corvallis City Council Document (City goal)

OSU Sustainability: (http://recycle.oregonstate.edu/ssi)

OSU Extension Service: (http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/extended/sustain/)

Crescent Valley High School Sustainable School Initiative Student Work

Sustainable School Initiative Overview & Timeline

APES Sustainability Report Assignment

2008-2009