TREE's  Walk the Talk  Campaign is aimed at reducing our individual and collective ecological footprints within our homes and communities.  It requires us to "pay it back"and volunteer our time on behalf of service learning projects that help our "fellow" co-inhabitants and shared environmental spaces.  Walk the Talk encourages people, of all ages, to get up and outside, involved in hands on activities that show that each & everyone of us can make a difference.

"WALK THE TALK" CAMPAIGN was launched on DEC. 15, 2009!!
Check out our coverage in the Idaho Statesman HERE
AUDITING TRASH
After school, students from Timberline High School's TREE Club collected all the lunch room garbage produced by students and teachers on a single day.  Armed with rubber gloves and draped in knee length aprons, students sorted the garbage into different piles (i.e. plastic, paper, aluminum, organics and just garbage) and then they took pictures of the piles to make a point to the entire student body about just how much waste is generated on daily basis.      In addition, students are working with the cafeteria staff and the district to move away from the excessive plastic packaging and to replace it with more earth friendly products. 

Visit DEQ's "Waste Free Lunch" Educational Resources website for lots of great ideas for how you can bring this program to your school and start reducing waste NOW!

Making Handmade Lunch Bags
TREE members began sewing lunch bags out of recycled clothing as part of their Walk the Talk campaign.  These bags serve two major purposes:  (1) they reduce the number of lunch bags that people simply throw away on a day-to-day basis, and (2) they allow the community to support the students' campaign to make the Timberline Quad the "greenest quad" in the entire Boise School District and the state of Idaho.  The Timberline Quad includes: Timberline High School, East Junior High, Les Bois Junior High, and the following elementary schools- Adams, Garfield, Liberty, Riverside, Trail Wind, & White Pine.

Lunch bags are made by the students themselves out of recycled material that is collected from unclaimed "lost and found" sweatshirts and clothing.  Each specially designed bag costs only $5 and they would make great holiday gifts.  For more information or to place an order you can email the TREE student leaders at:   bagthewaste@treetrunk.org

How to Become a Green School

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YOU TRULY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE & THERE ARE LOTS OF WAYS TO GET STARTED