DCS is a practical, student-driven, activity-based program that increases personal awareness and encourages participation by all members of the school community. DCS will provide the tools and training you, your staff and your students need to:
- Evaluate how your school is using energy, consuming water and producing waste,
- Run lifestyle campaigns to reduce energy and water use and waste production in your school.
The staff at DCS is committed to helping you as much as possible. We provide a DCS Resources manual. We offer training workshops throughout the school year. We provide a DCS wall display, year-end celebrations, and other resources that will help you deliver DCS and promote the program both in your school and in your community.
Goals
- To help schools reduce energy use, conserve water and minimize waste production through conservation programs and activities.
- To create opportunities to identify, implement and monitor conservation activities within schools.
- To increase participants’ awareness of the environmental impact of their daily activities.
DCS Conserves Resources
By reducing energy use, emissions from coal and natural gas are reduced. Water conservation not only reduces the use of a valuable renewable resource, but conserves the energy needed to clean, pump and heat water. Practicing the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) conserves energy required to produce consumer products and reduces the effect of waste disposal.
DCS Promotes Partnerships
Through DCS, students, teachers, administrators, parents, building operators, community members, elders and other partners work as a team to reach their conservation goals.
DCS Provides Educational Support
DCS provides educational resources and ongoing support to schools. Curriculum connections bring DCS into the classroom from kindergarten through high school. DCS activities promote teamwork and help students develop problem-solving skills.
DCS is Growing!
Destination Conservation Saskatchewan is growing because it works! DC was first introduced in Alberta in 1987. As of 2009, in Saskatchewan, 20 School Divisions and 200 schools are past or current participants in the program.
