youth and schools to take action.
Videos
The Sustainability Department Solutions to Waste Program put together a handful of tutorial videos about environmental projects that showcase the 4R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle, rot-compost). Follow along and learn how to make a bag out of an old t-shirt or a solar oven at home!
Where to Start
4R’s Unit Games
Watch our videos before you play the Sustainability Department Schools Program 4R’s board games.
Youth Climate Ambassadors
The (YCA) Leadership Program brings 9-11th grade students from across San Mateo County together to empower youth to take climate action into their own hands.
Create
Tees-to-Totes
Join the Sustainability Department Schools Team to get crafty with an item you might otherwise throw away – an old t-shirt. Follow along and share your new totes with us!
Solar Oven
Follow along with Sustainability Department Schools Team to learn how to make a solar oven at home!
The Latest News & Events
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Fixit Clinics are fun community-based workshops where neighbors, friends, and families work collectively to learn how to repair broken items. We’ll provide a workspace, specialty tools, and volunteer Fixit Coaches to help you troubleshoot and provide routine maintenance to your household items and appliances! Register at https://bit.ly/itemcheckin.
Interested in being a Fixit Coach?
It’s easy! Provide participants with 1) guidance on tools and 2) encouragement to investigate their broken item. Let them talk about how they used it and how it broke. That often provides valuable hints as to what’s wrong. See how much you can do without actually handling the item. Empower the item’s owner to do the troubleshooting and disassembly. Register to be a Fixit Coach here.
This event is hosted in partnership with the San Mateo County Libraries.