Promote Green Lifestyles
Are you a committed vegetarian? Are you keen to educate others in your school and community about some of the many benefits of vegetarian eating? Launch a campaign in your community that promotes vegetarianism and be eligible to win big!
“The Vegetarian Resource Group each year will award $20,000 in college scholarship money to graduating U.S. high school students who have promoted vegetarianism in their schools and/or communities. Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or fowl. Vegans are vegetarians who do not use other animal products such as dairy or eggs.
One award of $10,000 and two awards of $5,000 will be given.
Applicants will be judged on having shown compassion, courage, and a strong commitment to promoting a peaceful world through a vegetarian diet/lifestyle. Payment will be made to the student's college (U.S. based only). Winners of the scholarships give permission to release their names to the media. Applications and essays become property of The Vegetarian Resource Group. We may ask finalists for more information. Scholarship winners are contacted by e-mail or telephone. Please look at your e-mail.”
How do I get started? Click here.
How do I expand this narrative arc? Consider other ways to promote “green” living in your community. For example:
See our Food Waste To Feed post on helping your school and community reduce food waste and turn what is produced into animal feed.
Start a regular on-site composting program at your school. Finished compost can be used in school gardens or for school and community landscaping. Find out if there’s a composting non-profit near you that can help with some of the brainstorming and execution. Talk to local waste management and cafeteria workers. Have your school contract with a commercial composter who will pick up organic food waste and then divert it to larger composting operations.
Vermicompost! That means ‘use worms to create compost’. Create a low-cost worm bin at your school. Add small amounts of fruit and vegetable waste and watch the worms turn the material into vermicompost, which is the best type there is. Use the compost in the school garden.
Embark on a scientific research project to see how you can convert your school cafeteria food waste to biofuel. This is an impressive one!