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2008-2009
Participating Schools
Academy of World Languages
(pilot)
Arlington Heights Academy
Batista Home School
Clark Montessori
Norwood High School
Norwood Middle School
Oyler School (pilot)
Pleasant Ridge Montessori
(pilot)
Quebec Heights
Walnut Hills High School
(pilot)
Winton Montessori (pilot)
Withrow University High School
(pilot).
Special Thanks to:
Cincinnati Public Schools and its consultant GBBN for
coordinating this work with MCRP and the pilot schools, to the
group Ally for its Green Schools inspiration, and to the following
organizations that are providing financial and inkind support for
MCRP's educational programming this school year:
The City of Cincinnati's
Mill Creek Greenway Program
The Compton Foundation
The Charles H. Dater
Foundation
The Andrew Jergens Foundation,
through The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Marvin's Organic Gardens
MCRP's individual and business
donors
Metropolitan Sewer District of
Greater Cincinnati
Ohio Environmental Education
Fund
Paul Hemmer Companies
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New Products for March!
This month we have a really exciting new product for
sale in our Ecommerce store. MCRP is now offering 100% recycled
earrings in several beautiful styles. Kentucky artists Josie Lamb
Williams and Mark Williams strive to build a stronger connection
between the natural and human world. Their organic intricate
jewelry is a reflection of this goal. The shapes of the jewelry
they create are based on ancient symbols and shapes found in
nature.
Kentucky Coffee Bean Wave Earrings: This earring is
made of 100% recycled non-tarnish Argentium sterling silver with
hand-gathered Kentucky coffee beans.
Cobalt Wave Earrings: This earring is
made of 100% recycled non-tarnish Argentium
sterling silver and Fair Trade recycled glass
Forest Green Mother Earth Earrings: This earring is
made of 100% recycled non-tarnish Argentium sterling silver, Fair
Trade recycled glass.
To see the rest of the earring collection or to make a
purchase please visit our store!
MCRP
Store
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SAVE THE
DATE
APRIL
11th, 2009
for Mill Creek Restoration
Project's Warehouse Sale
Featuring Marvin's Organic
Gardens
WHEN: Saturday April 11th from
9-2
WHERE: the MCRP office and
Warehouse
More information to follow
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Mill
Creek Green Schools/ Green Infrastructure Program
2008-2009
School Year
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Since 1994, Mill Creek Restoration Project
(MCRP) has sponsored a comprehensive, year-round interdisciplinary
environmental educational program for over 14,000 middle and senior
high students from forty-eight schools within the Cincinnati Public
School District, and within suburban and parochial districts in the
watershed. The program emphasizes analytical and creative thinking
and uses "hands on" learning experiences and an action
research model (data collection, problem solving and action
taking).
Working with dedicated teachers, MCRP provides
a variety of classroom and fieldwork learning activities that help
empower young people by giving them challenges and helping them
develop the skills to meet them. Students learn about water
resources and other environmental issues in their classrooms;
conduct stream surveys, biological and water chemistry monitoring
on Mill Creek and tributary streams; compile their data;
participate in service learning opportunities at Mill Creek
Greenway and Freedom Tree sites; and attend a student congress
where they share what they have learned and recommend
peer-to-peer.
Pilot Project
In addition, during the current school year, MCRP is collaborating
with six Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) in a pilot program
focusing on their own school grounds, and ways eco-friendly
"Green Infrastructure" projects (e.g., rain gardens,
vegetative bio-swales, planting trees, green roofs and green walls)
can help reduce stormwater runoff to the combined sewer system,
improve water quality and restore wildlife habitat. The pilot
schools will substitute on-campus stormwater-related activities for
off-campus fieldtrips, including:
Research/Site Reconnaissance of School
Campuses: With
guidance from their teachers and the MCRP team, students will study
their school grounds, observing physical features; calculating
stormwater runoff volume; testing school soils for nutrient content
and permeability; and evaluating potential sites for stormwater
projects. Using maps and fieldtrips, students will literally track
storm water from their school buildings and grounds to combined
sewer overflow (CSO) discharge points to Mill Creek.
Project Designs: MCRP will organize short design workshops at
each school. Students will present their research and help to
generate preliminary design plans for Green stormwater projects.
Workshop participants will include students, teachers, community
volunteers, CPS decision makers, and MCRP's staff and
technical consultants, the Human Nature landscape
studio and Strand Engineering. Human Nature and Strand will
complete final design plans for review by students before they are
submitted to CPS for approval. Students will present the projects
they have crafted at the year-end student congress on May 11, and
at their own school assemblies if desired.
Fieldwork: MCRP will work with students, its project
team, Marvin's Organic Gardens, and community participants to
prepare sites and install the selected Green Infrastructure
projects on the pilot school campuses. In future years, MCRP will
help participating schools to manage and monitor their Green
Infrastructure projects.
Photos:
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Guided by MCRP education director Lora
Alberto, Academy of World Languages students in George Bens'
class conduct a site reconnaissance of their school grounds.
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Fourth through sixth grade students in
Penny Greenler's class at Winton Montessori participate in a
design workshop to generate ideas for greening their future
school campus.
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Walnut Hills High School students in Bill
Schnure's class participate in a Green Infrastructure design
workshop for their school campus.
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Thank you for your support!
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