What it's all about . . .
Bagspeak
is a K-12 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 rapidly changing environment, the importance of recycling,
re-using and reducing and about ways that they can incorporate these
practices into their and their family's daily lives.
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. Let re-usable bags speak for continued changes in our consumer habits and ways of thinking about 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. Let re-usable bags speak for continued changes in our consumer habits and ways of thinking about our environment!
Current Project:
Santa Cruz County and Half Moon Bay, California
Thanks to New Leaf Community Markets the BagSpeak project has been made possible for 1000 elementary, middle and High school students in Santa Cruz County and in Half Moon Bay, California. As a result of New Leaf's generous support, these 1000 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 canvas shopping bag, which will be sold in New Leaf Markets. Profits from the sales will then go back to each participating school for further science education. Please email us at Info@BagSpeak.org for more information. Bags should be available for purchase in February of 2012.
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 and begin to change other environmentally impractical ways as well.
Buy a Bagito HERE
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.
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 science education.
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 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.
BagSpeak is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. BagSpeak and Bagito. All rights reserved.