Environmental education projects

  • Create and implement a compost project  –   Island restaurants daily produce carts and carts worth of food scraps (orange peels alone!)  which are taken to the island dump and burned
  • Create and implement a recyling program – currently there is no recycling on the island except (a) Bowen and Bowen distributors have a very low-key, poorly advertised program of accepting pop bottle returns for a 5 refund, and water bottles with no refund. They chip them down when they have enough bottles  (b)  there is an informal economic activity where fruit juice vendors take used water bottles and fill them with fruit juice for resale
  • Buy a mulcher, and create landfill for sale.  This is Heidi’s initiative, with the idea of mulching the palm fronds and leaves that every home owner rakes up for burning at the local dump.  Homeowners pay a lot of money to then buy sand (which is dredged from the sea bottom) for landfill.  The purchase of a mulcher could be an excellent environmental benefit to the island, as well as a real-life fundraising and skills training project for the highschool children.  What do we need?  MONEY FOR A MULCHER! Oh, and then a mulcher that is for sale!!!
  • Reef Education projects:  2008 is International Year of the Reef.   This could be a poster contest, a field trip to the reef for the children, or a project of your own design