WCAX reporter Adam Sullivan recently highlighted Kimball Union Academy‘s participation in the Green Cup Challenge in a School Watch segment titled “Meriden School Going Green.”

As part of Green Cup Challenge, KUA students and faculty are working to raise the community’s environmental and energy consciousness. Students & faculty are reducing personal as well as school-wide environmental consumption- from turning your own lights and appliances off when not needed- to reducing water consumption- to leaving the dining hall lights off when the windows light the room just fine.

A bit about the Green Cup Challenge:

“The Green Cup Challenge™ (GCC) is the first and only national student-driven, interschool Climate Challenge that supports student efforts to measure and reduce campus electricity use and related greenhouse gas emissions, and to encourage water efficiency, waste reduction, and recycling.

The Green Cup Challenge builds awareness about climate change, educates the community about the importance of resource conservation, and encourages the participation of the entire campus. The GCC event takes place each February to call attention to peak energy use, and to provide an opportunity to make every day Earth Day!)”