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• Educating the school community about environmental issues, 目前的研究, and best practices related to environmental sustainability

• 培养市民对环境的认识、欣赏和责任感

• Advertising our efforts to be more environmentally responsible with pride

• Inspiring change in behaviors and attitudes related to environmental sustainability

• 不仅是索伯里学校社区的榜样和资源，也是更大社区的榜样和资源

• Striving toward ever greater energy efficiency and waste reduction on the school campus

• Integrating environmental education and sustainability across our school’s curriculum

• Encouraging and supporting community service, engagement, and stewardship that supports the environment.

• Streamlining systems to allow community members to easily participate in greening efforts.

• Upholding our values of respect for all animals/humans, diversity, and inclusion

While we are always striving to be more sustainable, we currently do the following to ensure our community is as sustainable as possible:

• 新女生宿舍, Hope Hall, will be one of Pennsylvania’s first Passive House multi-unit residential buildings. Passive house technology reduces energy consumption by 90%.

• 我们的新污水处理厂利用微生物反应器技术(MBR)生产最干净的废水，并返回处理后的废水, 现在饮用, 以最清洁的方式回归环境(支持附近的樱草花溪).

• 2022年可持续发展周期间, the SEAC club gave a presentation on rainwater management on Solebury’s campus. 他们讨论了一些解决方案，以改善我们环境的整体健康状况，并减少未来受到洪水负面影响的可能性. The solutions included converting some mowed areas to meadows, 安装雨水花园, and planting a riparian buffer along Primrose Creek. Download the Rainwater Management On Solebury Campus Presentation.

• Solebury is a “plastic water bottle free campus.“SEAC成员继续教育学生，放置有针对性的标牌，制作教育视频.

• Since 2019, SEAC与食堂合作实施了“星期五少吃肉”活动，向学生们介绍健康的素食，并向社区成员展示，改变饮食习惯，少吃肉是应对气候变化的一种可行方法.

• Compost leaves, clippings, wood chips, and food from the kitchen. 堆肥每周翻转一次，用于校园周围的各个花园，美化委员会在种植花卉时使用. 

• Installed a green wall in the Abbe Science Center, 净化空气, 减少电磁辐射, 减少噪音, 改善精神和心理健康, 并为学校增添了美丽.

• 种植蔬菜和传粉者花园, which is used primarily as a teaching tool for the Science department. Produce from the garden is used by the dining hall and on-campus faculty. 荣誉环境科学班在花园中扮演着积极的角色，我们也在秋季和春季提供园艺活动. Other classes sometimes visit the garden for journaling or art.

• Maintenance did a full campus LED conversion in August of 2021, 哪一种能减少33%的用电量. This reduced our carbon footprint on campus by 527,000 pounds of CO2 annually which is the equivalent of not driving 601,每年行驶067英里.

• Solebury在樱草花河沿岸提供了一个河岸缓冲，以减少径流，并支持河床和周围湿地的生物多样性. The riparian buffer is currently being expanded. 

• 用“水合站”取代饮水机，这些水合站有过滤系统，可以方便地为可重复使用的水瓶灌装(这是一个持续的努力)。.

• 在大垃圾桶上清楚地贴上“垃圾填埋”或“回收”的标签，并策略性地放置它们，以增加校园的回收利用. 

• Purchased 50 additional acres that are predominantly woodlands. 

• 在树林中建造小径，增加学生与自然的接触，提高他们的智力, emotional, 身体健康.

• 这个进步项目有意识地减少了他们在校园活动中为家长使用的塑料水瓶的数量, students, staff, and alumni.

• 探索校园可再生能源
• Increase food composting and sustainable waste management practices 
• Aligning landscaping and maintenance decisions with sustainable best-practices