Visiting Arbor Ridge Elementary School in Orlando, Florida

At the recent Green Schools National Conference in Orlando, Florida, we had the privilege to visit Arbor Ridge Elementary School. Arbor Ridge has received first place in the green schools recognition program, the Florida Green Apple award by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the Green Ribbons Schools award by the US Department of Education.

We toured the school and the campus and a team of faculty members attended our afternoon workshop on vertical articulation of Education for Sustainability. Among many things, they have composting in the cafeteria and a living garden. Here are some pictures we took: 

Arbor Ridge and their students (particularly Zoe) are really excited about the work they are doing. We are very excited to help them embed EfS into the core curriculum.