Lisa Borgatti will never forget the moment when one of her students at the Governor’s Academy ran up to her brimming with excitement about the party he and his friends were planning to throw together. The reason for the celebration? The electronic meter on their dorm’s water filling station had just alerted them that he and his friends had kept 3,000 plastic water bottles out of landfills.
“It was pretty neat,” says Borgatti, who is a Governor’s Academy science teacher, as well as co-chair of its sustainability committee. Now, she says, there’s a friendly competition between the dorms to see wh
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