Collaborative Community Competition
The Atherton Environmental Programs Committee was pleased to host the first annual GreenSTART Environmental Competition and Fair this past spring. GreenSTART was designed to help the whole town of Atherton (and others) start to take actions that have beneficial impacts for our environment today. Drawing upon the more than 6,000 students in the ten Atherton schools, as well as over 6,000 residents, GreenSTART aspired to engage all town groups — Students, Teachers, Administrators, Residents and Town staff — in an cooperative effort to "close the loop on carbon" in our town!

Hope you were there on Sunday, May 4th, for the GreenSTART Fair!
Everyone was invited to join us for the first annual GreenSTART Fair at Atherton's lovely Holbrook-Palmer Park, featuring a showcase of the students' environmental projects, with music by the Banana Slug String Band. There was fun for kids, delicious and healthy organic goodies baked by local residents, a freecycle exchange, an e-waste drop-off and lots more.

Award Presentation will happen on May 21st at the Aherton City Council Chambers at 7:00 pm at 94 Ashfield Road. Please come and celebrate our student winners!

Missed the competition but still want to take the community challenge? Please use our tools to see what ways you can reduce your family's carbon footprint by taking some simple steps (and possibly some harder steps, if you are up for it) to reduce your carbon emissions a little or a lot. Then re-calculate your family's new carbon footprint. See how much you've saved! If you've already taken green steps, let us know—those count! Your donation is a fully tax-deductible contribution to the Atherton GreenSTART FUND that supports the students' environmental competition.

It's a complete WIN-WIN!

Click here for a complete description of the 2008 GreenSTART Program