BagSpeak.org

Teaching K-12th grade students to value and sustain their environment; inspiring adults to do the same.

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How can a bag speak?

BagSpeak is a K-12th grade environmental education and consumer awareness project uniting elementary, middle and high school students with the citizens and business of American cities. We are dedicated to teaching students about our changing environment, the importance of environmental stewardship (including: recycling, re-using and reducing) and concepts in environmental sustainability. At the end of each BagSpeak project, students also create a custom-illustrated reusable shopping bag, that "speaks" to them, their families and the world about the importance of taking personal responsibility in sustaining our environment.

At the same time, we seek to raise awareness of these same issues in adults and help to bring a change of consciousness, ultimately changing habits among adults and communities at large. We want to let re-usable bags speak for not only bringing our own bags when shopping, but other changes in our daily lives that lead to more sustainable and environmentally friendly practices.

Teaching students in grades K-12 concepts about environmental stewardship, sustainability and how they can each take personal responsibility to help our environment.

If you are interested in having the BagSpeak project come to your school, district or municipality, we are currently accepting project requests for the the Fall and Winter of 2012/13. Please send an email to: Mitch@BagSpeak.org expressing interest.

Current Projects:
Santa Cruz County and Half Moon Bay, California
and
Salinas Valley, Monterey County
Spring 2012

Thanks to the sponsorship of New Leaf Community Markets and a partnership with Green Waste Recovery, for the Santa Cruz County/Half Moon Bay project, and with the Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority and CalRecycle in Monterey County, the BagSpeak project has been made possible for 1600 elementary, middle and High school students . As a result of this generous support, these 1600 students will take part in a unit of study on sustainability with a focus on how to incorporate reusing, recycling and reducing into their daily lives. At the completion of the unit of study, each student will illustrate one side of a shopping bag, which will then be given to the student/family. Please email us at Info@BagSpeak.org for more information.

In partnership with:

Serving all of the unincorporated areas of Santa Cruz County and the cities of Capitola and Scotts Valley. More info at: www.greenwaste.com

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Support BagSpeak by buying a reusable shopping bag

BagSpeak and Bagito are working together to support comprehensive environmental education for K-12 students and to promote a change in consciousness among American shoppers. We must start bringing our own re-usbable bag EVERY time we go shopping for ALL types of purchases (including take-out food!) By remembering to do this, we will also hopefully begin to think about other ways that we can change our daily practices to better support and sustain our environment. 100% of the proceeds from the sales of Bagito go to support BagSpeak.
Buy a Bagito HERE

How to participate:

To register to participate in the project, please choose the "Teachers and Schools" link at the top of the page and fill out the online registration form.

To inquire about sponsorship and/or to make a donation, please send an email to Mitch at: Mitch@BagSpeak.org.

The BagSepak Pilot Project
BagSpeak's first project took place in the Spring of 2008 in New York City and involved 1000 students in 12 different New York City public elementary, middle and high schools. Through the generous support of Whole Foods Markets Inc. in New York, BagSpeak was able to impact the lives of many students and families as well as make a donation of funds to the schools to further environmental science education.

Contact us:

To inquire more about the project and to register your school, organization or business to participate, please send us an email or call: Info@BagSpeak.org
(831) 244-0925