The Strathmore High School Community Greenhouse has something exciting planned for the new year. One of their projects is a Rainwater Harvesting Demonstration through Capital Power's Community Sustainability Fund (CSF). The Students at SHS have been busy thinking about ways they can better use the landscape around them to get water where it needs to go.
"We are trying to think of some way to be a bit more sustainable with the rainwater that we get using some of the surfaces like the basketball court, that's a little bit uphill and the school to capture some of that rainwater a little bit more efficiently so that we could use it down at our community greenhouse for just plants outside," said Cole Hintz, a teacher at Strathmore High School.
Capital Power gave the students, who will be working on the project in the spring $20,000. "We have already been doing some planning. Through a club that we run called Sustainable Solutions that is through some of our science classes. There is a group of students who are keen to develop their engineering and decision-making skills a little bit more through this."
Hintz says the students are excited to participate in not only the greenhouse but more of these innovative ideas.
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