Green Energy Initiative (GEI)

As part of L’Anse Creuse Public Schools’ District Goals, a district-wide Green Energy Initiative (GEI) has been implemented that enhances energy conservation, inspires responsible citizenship and provides authentic learning experiences.  The Initiative includes all students and staff members.  The goal of the school district is to have every school at least Michigan Green Certified by the end of the 2009-2010 School Year.

One of the most obvious and important functions of a K-12 school system is to prepare its students for the future.  While teaching students how to read, write and compute have traditionally been the ways that we have carried our culture to the next generation, another more basic kind of teaching has become vitally important at the beginning of the 21st Century.  The need for students to understand that all of us need to take better care of our world has never been greater as our resources become increasingly rare, and the waste we produce unsustainably high.  It won’t much matter if our students can read, write or perform math functions if the world in which they and their children someday live doesn’t give them the opportunity to enjoy breathing clean air, eating untainted food or drinking clean water.

We, in K-12 education, need to become models for our students, their parents and our community in emphasizing the need to create a future world in which our students become not only academically proficient, but environmentally responsible.