Children and Nature Gaining Ground in Rhode Island

Providence Journal – December 27, 2007
By Peter B. Lord

Last spring, Dan Miller, head of school at The Wheeler School, sought volunteers from the faculty and staff to look for solutions to transportation problems in the school’s crowded quarters on Providence’s East Side. He had no idea what that simple request would trigger. Some 30 teachers stepped forward, he said. They created parking incentives for car poolers and recommended subsidies for bus passes. More people began bicycling and taking trains. And then the faculty, staff and students wanted to do much more. Since then the school has launched programs to reduce its use of electricity, paper and water —…

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