Congratulating Princeton Day School

Betty Wolfe of Princeton
    Congratulations to Princeton Day School students and staff for winning the national Green Cup Challenge by reducing their energy use by 22 percent last month. Their efforts were a fantastic combination of common sense technical decisions — such as finding a way to clean at night without having all the lights on — and a real effort to form good energy saving habits —like turning out the lights when you leave a room. No new equipment was required, and PDS saved more than $5,000 in the process.
   Let’s hope all our local schools quickly adopt similar practices. Energy audits have already been conducted at our public schools. “OASIS,” a group founded by PDS teacher Liz Cutler that enables representatives from all area schools to share experience and collaborate on environmental issues is up and running. Time for action.
Betty Wolfe
Princeton