Making a Green Difference in K-12 Schools

From what I've seen, a lot of schools could make a huge difference if they just started with the basics of energy conservation. At my school I see 12 year old kids playing weekend games under the lights when the afternoon would be fine. I see them traveling to play other schools in towns 70 miles away when there are plenty of opponents ten miles away. I see them open up the gym doors in the winter during practice because it's too hot inside. I see them maintaining a huge amount of grounds - do we really need two or three of every sports field there is? They act like they should be exempt from making any conservation efforts because it's all "for the children." All this while they send the children home to harass mom and dad about what light bulbs they are using and what kind of car they drive.

jhammond

Bureaucratic hypocrisy: so what else is new? I'm living in a country where the government keeps exhorting us to go green, yet at the same time, they have announced grand plans for a nightly national light-up, night time Formula 1 races, large-scale power boat races etc, all of which consumes dwindling resources and spews out carbon emissions heavily. What I'm wondering is this: I know that if everyone reduces his or her carbon footprint by a bit, the total reduction will be a lot, but what is the gain made when governments increase their own carbon footprints exponentially?