Green go-getters
Millen points to the natural enthusiasm of the students. "I think this is the age where kids are coming to be much more aware of the big picture of the world," she said. "And now they're looking beyond their community and seeing what is out there and they're finding their place in the world." They have also learned some valuable life lessons along the way, noted Millen. In December the class learned that their dream of a plastic bag-free Whistler was slipping away from them because in B.C. it is the jurisdiction of the provincial government, not the municipalities, to make such a decision and...