employees, maintain a healthy
and productive workforce,
and slow the rate of increasing
healthcare costs for employees.
“We are honored to receive this
positive recognition in both Dayton
and Western Pennsylvania,” said Ed
Auslander, LORD Corporation president and CEO. “Wellness is a top priority at all of our facilities, and we’re
encouraged to see our wellness program
upholds our mission to create ‘A Better,
Healthier LORD.’”
Communities Across the
Globe Join USGBC’s Green
Apple Day of Service
The third annual Green Apple Day of
Service, which took place on Saturday,
Sept. 27, 2014, brought together hundreds of thousands of volunteers participating in 3,760 service projects in all
50 states and in 42 countries throughout
the world. An initiative of the Center for
Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building
Council (USGBC), the Day of Service
brings together students, teachers, parents, elected officials, organizations and
companies to transform their schools into
healthy, safe, cost-efficient and productive learning places.
This year’s Day of Service featured
a flagship event in Washington, D.C.
where U.S. Secretary of Education Arne
Duncan and his family joined volunteers
at Tubman Elementary School for gar-
dening and painting projects and several
sustainability education activities for stu-
dents and their families.
“At the Center for Green Schools,
we’re continually inspired by the dedica-
tion of local communities and volunteers
to improve the places where our children
learn,” said Rachel Gutter, director of the
Center for Green Schools at USGBC. “On
this third annual Green Apple Day of
Service, we couldn’t be more humbled by
the sheer volume of activity to transform
our schools and communities. Hundreds
of thousands of volunteers around the
globe are sending a clear message that
where we learn matters. To each and ev-
ery one of these dedicated individuals we
say, thank you.”
Cities and towns across the country
and around the world were active in the
Day of Service events: In Chicago, volun-
teers convened at John M. Smyth Magnet
and IB World School to make improve-
ments at the school including the building
of new garden boxes, weeding in existing
gardens and creating a restorative space
in the school for students.
Students at Cristo Rey Jesuit High
School in Atlanta updated the community garden, participated in a school-wide clean up and recycling initiative,
launched an environmental awareness
program and encouraged student-led
“trash-to-treasure” recycling projects.
To commemorate this effort, the school
also created a mural representing the
Cristo Rey motto to promote environmental sustainability.
In New Orleans, the Center
for Sustainable Engagement and
Development is renovating a 130-year-
old barge board house into an environmental education and visitor center. The
site will give visitors the ability to peek
into the construction and see the types of
energy efficiency upgrades that have been
made to the house, serving as a model of
energy efficiency and as a neighborhood
hub in the Lower 9th Ward community.
At the Instituto Thomas Jefferson,
thousands of students across all five
Mexico City and Guadalajara campuses
made personal commitments to sustainability at their school, taking action on
school-wide campaigns in support of recycling, habitat restoration, water conservation and more.
Many of today’s schools are beset
by a host of challenges that compromise our children’s health and wellness, causing everything from asthma
to headaches and concentration issues.
Green Apple is a global movement to
put all children in schools where they
have clean and healthy air to breathe,
where energy and resources are conserved, and where they can be inspired
to dream of a brighter future.
The Green Apple Day of Service
