All Saints’ Episcopal Church and Day School has established The Green Faith Roundtable, a think tank and action group for mobilizing our community to go green. We believe we are all called to be good stewards of the earth and to care for creation.
In April, the All Saints' Community came together for its first Green Festival. The highlight of the festival was the "Green Walk" featuring environmental student projects from every grade. There was a Farmers' Market, a rock climbing wall, and other children's games and activities. Educational booths included APS, SRP, Liberty Wildlife, Audubon Society, City of Phoenix Recycling, Arizona Game & Fish, Boy Scout Troop 401, Tonto National forest, American Solar Electric, and Organic Dry Cleaners. Reusable All Saints' water bottles and grocery bags were available.
The community continues to work to conserve earth's resources, boosting recycling efforts, including using leftover water from students' lunches to water the grounds, and emptying all plastic containers so that they can go into recycling bins. Thousands of catalogs were canceled as a result of a community-wide effort to get off mailing lists by going to www.catalogchoice.org. and families were asked to participate in Earth Hour, turning off electricity for an hour on the evening of March 29.