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• Dining Services

  To reduce our community's waste, the Dining Hall serves all lunches on permanent china and silverware. The Dining Hall has also stopped using trays. This saves resources by reducing water usage and resources to heat water for washing trays; using less chemicals for cleaning; and cutting down on waste.
  
  Energy Star dishwashing equipment is used to minimize water usage and energy efficient deep fryers are also used for food preparation. All pre-consumer waste produced by the Dining Hall is composted and cooking oil goes toward Lovett’s biodiesel program. Lovett donates any edible foods to Atlanta Table to feed the homeless.
  
  In addition, bulk dispensers for condiments, juice, milk, and some foods are used to reduce waste.
  
  Lovett started a composting program in the Dining Hall and Cafe in the spring of 2013. Most items that have been previously thrown in the trash are now able to be placed in the composting bins located in the Dining Hall and the Cafe. Approximately 90% of all Dining Hall waste is diverted out of landfills.

• Earth Week

  Each April, the whole school celebrates Earth Week with educational activities, service opportunities, special initiatives, and the sale of plants grown by Upper School botany students. 

• Green Schools Purchasing Consortium

  Lovett is one of 28 schools nationwide to become a charter member of the Green Schools Purchasing Consortium, a program of the Green Schools Alliance. Through this consortium, 28 public and independent schools have agreed to purchase nearly 25 million kilowatt house of renewable electricity—the environmental equivalent of taking 3,400 cars off the road for a year! Lovett purchased Renewable Energy Certificates to offset 25% of its electricity usage from January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2017, an estimated 3,937,000 Kwh. By so doing, we are helping to counterbalance our environmental footprint while also supporting the creation of clean energy.

• Green Team

  The Upper School and the Middle School have a student-run Green Team that promotes sustainability through activities, initiatives, and outreach within their division.
  
  

  The Green Team's most well-known activity is the annual E-Waste Drive. Families bring old electronic gadgets onto campus to be taken to a disposal or recycling site. E-waste composes some of the most toxic items that go into landfills, so the Green Team is trying to give members of the community a place to take these items so they can be properly and safely disposed.

• Solar Arrays

  As part of Lovett's 2015 Earth Week celebration, the Green Team hosted the ribbon cutting and dedication of the 11Kwh solar array in the Lower School Arcade, donated by Trey and Juliette Jarrard.
  
  The array allows us to access data in real time so our community can see how much energy is being produced and how much CO2 is being offset. 
  
  To see the live feed, click here. 
  
  As part of Earth Week 2016, additional solar arrays were installed along the Lower School Arcade and at the Physical Plant. 
  
  The Physical Plant's array includes 200 solar panels. Every clean, renewable electron that is created will be used to power the Physical Plant. It is estimated that annual production will be about 76,800 kWh which means that Lovett will be reducing CO2 emissions by 46.8 metric tons every year for the next twenty to twenty five years. That is the equivalent of planting over 38 acres of trees every year, or taking ten cars off the road and burning 5,264 fewer gallons of gasoline every year for the next quarter century. 
  
  To see the live feed, click here. 

• Organic Gardening

  Lovett has several organic gardens on campus. Students learn through gardening in each division. Lower School students learn about pollinators, native species, and composting. Middle School students have created a vertical garden on the school's green roof where they grow seasonal herbs and flowers. Upper School botany students learn about planting, harvesting, and sustainable food production in the Upper School greenhouse. Students also learn how to make their own soil, which teaches them what soil amendments, nutrients, and dirt make good soil, and how to ensure good drainage, as the seeds germinate in the greenhouse. The students plot out the garden and plan in advance, measuring how many plants can be placed in the square feet available. Through the support of Lovett’s food service program, food from Lovett’s organic gardens are often served in the Dining Hall and Cafe!

• Portman Family Middle School

  For a brochure about the Middle School's sustainable features, click here. Click on the Building Dashboard link here to track the Middle School's utility use in real time.
  
  Guided and self-guided tours highlighting the school's sustainable features are available. Please contact the Middle School front desk at (404) 262-3032, ext. 1222, to make arrangements.

• EV Charging Stations

  There are four electric vehicle charging stations located near the entrance to the parking deck. The charging stations can fully charge an EV battery (zero to full) in two hours. Cars in parking spaces on either side of the four EV chargers can reach them. In addition, four cars can be charged using regular electrical outlets in the parking deck.

• Walk to School Days

  Lovett occasionally hosts Walk to School Days during the school year where families and students are encouraged to walk, bike, or carpool to school.