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La Salle Green Hills steps up ‘greenness’ on 50th year

11/01/2009

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La Salle Green Hills (LSGH) recommitted itself to the environment on its 50th year by pushing its Reduce, Re-use, Recycle for Tomorrow campaign among LSGH faculty, students, staff, parents and the whole Lasallian community.

Called R34T, the campaign teaches Lasallians practical ways by which they can do the 3 Rs for Mother Earth. Emphasizing the importance of reducing garbage by not wasting products due to unnecessary consumption, it also teaches the importance of reusing garbage such as old plastic bags and recycling garbage such as old plastic bottles and converting them into handy new objects such as planters and pencil holders, among others.

Re-energized as a project on the occasion of LSGH’s 50th year, R34T aims to increase awareness about the threats and effects of global warming and to teach grade school pupils and high school students how to best manage their environment in order to lessen if not eradicate further damage.

Brother Felipe Belleza Jr. FSC, LSGH president, shared that the LSGH community wants to continue to give back to society through R34T, La Salle Green Hills’ way of orienting young people on their personal responsibilities to Planet Earth. He noted that the practical applications of the campaign have already begun to prosper in cyberspace as a group of LSGH students has already launched a fan page on Facebook, a popular social networking site, to extend knowledge and practices to more people, including non-Lasallians.

“Let us save the world, Help us save the Earth” are just a few of the shout-outs you will find at the Let’s Go Green fan page, which also served as a class project for five LSGH students, according to Brother Felipe.

He noted that going green has been a lifelong advocacy of La Salle Green Hills and all Lasallian communities, not only because green is the school color, but because La Salle brothers are very keen on their mission to educate and to espouse social responsibility.

“Even before environmentalism became the ‘in’ thing, La Salle Green Hills has already been actively promoting ‘the Green Life.’ This advocacy finds its best meaning now with our experience from typhoon ‘Ondoy.’ We should have been better stewards of our environment,” Brother Felipe said.

This year, in celebration of its Green Turns to Gold milestone, Brother Felipe also announced its support of the One Million Trees and Beyond (OMTB) project of the Lasallian Institute for the Environment (LIFE). The OMTB project aims to plant one million seedlings by 2011, De La Salle Philippines’ upcoming centenary celebration, as an answer to the environmental call of preservation, protection and restoration of Mother Nature.