T O D A Y - Berwick Academy

BA Earth Day 2010
April 22,2010
The annual Earth Day celebration was held the morning of April 23 outside the Commons. This year’s ceremony was
completely student run, comprised of a few words from students and musical performances from all three divisions.
Among the speakers were Lydia Waldo ’13, Noah Landis ’14, MacKenzie Levy ’14, and Alex Zannos ’11. Fantastic
performances from the All-School Chorus, Jo Fletcher ‘10 and Jamie Meader ’13, Middle School African Drummers,
fourth grader Emma Wahl, and Middle Schoolers Sam Salvati and Austin Fishbaugh also took place in the celebration.
Berwick Academy Green Alliance
has been working with the Middle School Green
Committee on a community-wide water bottle pledge,
put in place at the Earth Day celebration. The pledge
is an effort to reduce the use of disposable plastic
water bottles campus- and community-wide by having
participants use a reusable aluminum water bottle
instead. For every pledge, each participant received a reusable water bottle to
help get him or her started. Plastic water bottles are wasteful and damaging
to the environment because of the processes used to extract the plastics as
well as the pollution they produce from improper recycling and disposal.
This pledge kicked off on April 23 and is open to any willing participant
who wants to make an effort to preserve the environment. BGA and members
of Middle School Green Committee collected signatures from students and
faculty during lunches the week of Tuesday, April 27. Pledge signing will be
open to students for years to come.
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