Category: Actions & Events

Sustain-In Schedule and an Exciting Development

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Community members arrive between 5-8 pm Feb 23, depart by 10 pm US students may choose to participate in an overnight Lock-in Location: Upper School STEM & Humanities Building Come to the Sustain-In to deepen your knowledge of sustainability, learn about DA’s carbon emissions, and have fun! Who is invited? All members of the DA …

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Join Us for the Sustain-In!

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February 23rd at the Upper School STEM and Humanities Building Rolling start between 5 and 8 pm. Stay for an hour or all evening long! RSVP HERE The whole DA community is invited to an evening of innovation. We will work together to imagine an environmentally sustainable school and develop strategies for bringing it about. …

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Preschool Faculty Embraces Sustainability

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The Preschool faculty is embracing sustainability, even when it comes to sustenance.  At the Preschool’s back-to-school faculty meeting this August, our Director, Christian Hairston-Randleman, gave all the teachers culinary kits and water bottles.  She did this to actively support the sustainability initiative at Durham Academy. Each TOPBOOC culinary kit contains a metal fork, spoon, knife, straws, chopsticks …

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Change Your Search – Plant Trees

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I have long read Seth Godin’s writings; each day, Seth sends me a message to my inbox with his thought for the day. Over the summer, I read about his work with the crew working on the book and website The Carbon Almanac. I have been reading a lot of books lately about Climate Change. …

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