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My local high school seems to be cranking its way towards reform. As noted earlier it is brand new and as such, feels a need to reduce its carbon foot print. By using a biomass boiler, it has reduced its heating costs by over half, but due to new electronic devices, has shot its electric bill up by twice of the old school. Still it burning less fossil fuels then it did before so that is good.
Now its food program is now top notch.
The Superintendent has decided to buy local foods even if the cost is higher then government run sources. Since a large scale beef operation is right across the road, guess where the beef for the school is coming from? They have a licensed slaughterhouse pick it up, process the cattle (Herefords) and then put it into its school lunch program of feeding 1100 kids. Now they are looking at doing something similar for the milk they use and the other food commodities.
The local dairy farms, all 29 of them in the district, got together and chipped in $2 per cow they milked on April 15th...the day the money was collected. That put up a 10,000 dollar scoreboard for the school that says "Got Milk" instead of Pepsi or Coke. This has gained some regional attention and their nutrition program, because of all the local food used, has got them an award. Now they are off to the nationals in this category so we keep fingers crossed and enjoy the emphasis this superintended has given local farmers...yes small farms and big farms alike.
Using a woodstove to heat the place, possibly wind power to power itself up, and now locally raised food in its school lunch program...I guess this stuff can go full scale after all. Kind of neat to hear some good news once and awhile coming from the schools.
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Tell a welfare recipient they must work and they call their congressman. Tell a farmer he can no longer work and he commits suicide. No wonder 1/2% of the population feeds the other 99-1/2%!!
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Also it helps to know that your tax dollars are going to help out the local suppliers  going back into the community!
Livin to learn
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Now if more of our schools would follow the example!!!! A couple of our schools have solar panels set up but they don't power anything they are strickly for looks :-(
Lord keep you arm around my shoulder & your hand over my mouth If God brings you to it, He will see you through it 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'
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| solor pannels are loaded with bad things, what if one of them breaks? money going back into the cominity ect is great. However I'd pull my kids out of a school system that spends my tax money on unproven or just unproven green ideas. Look at wind mills for example. people talk about reducing a carbon foot print they they rip down a forest of trees to put them up.. uh yea, that makes sence???
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| Continued reliance on oil doesn't make sense either.
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