Earth month teaches us to celebrate our earth, but in 2025, it’s time to focus on how to save it.
“Earth month is important to celebrate because we need to take care of our planet,” said chemistry teacher Timothy Sakogowa.
This year, the city of Pleasanton, invited all residents to a celebration and educational event at the Pleasanton Library on April 18th to learn more about protecting the environment. Amador Valley now looks at itself in an attempt to do its part for the community.
“I think Amador could do a better job of having more clear recycling stations and recycling ability. In my classroom, I only have paper recycling, there’s no plastic or glass recycling. I am not sure if we have any paper recycling at campus at all. So I think that’s one way we could be doing a better job,” said global studies teacher Haley Baldwin.
Students have taken their future into their own hands by identifying problems with how Amador disposes of its waste.
“You know how they tell everyone to take a fruit, and then everyone takes a fruit and they throw it away? Don’t do that,” said Riya Natarajan (‘25).
To address this problem, Alisha Joseph partnered with Pleasanton Unified School District’s Child Nutrition Services to help Amador not misuse its food.
“My project is that we collect excess food that the students don’t eat or take and we have huge boxes of 20 pounds of food every friday that we collect, sometimes from foothill and the middle schools, and we donate them to Open Heart Kitchen so the food doesn’t go to waste,” said Alisha Joseph (‘25).
On a smaller scale, households can make an impact too. Some quick and easy swamps to do your part can include unplugging electronics when not in use, trading shampoo bottles for shampoo bars and using reusable bags. Amador Valley Science teacher shares what his family does to keep the environment green.
“Tossing away trash would be a good start. At our house we recycle a lot, we take it to the recycling center to get some extra money. We went to the water treatment plant, they recycle wastewater and use it for irrigation, which is all good things,” said Sakogawa.
