Hastings Middle School launched a new extra-curricular student club, the Green Team, to encourage conservation and sustainability at school and throughout the community. The Green Team focused on the theme of reducing waste. After educating themselves, as well as the general student body and their parents, about issues related to waste reduction, students in the Family and Consumer Science class made their own reusable shopping bags. Students on the Green Team created a low-waste lunch display table and surveyed students’ parents. Waste reduction literature was disseminated in school and at a variety of after school events, some involving parents. In addition, a workshop about non-toxic cleaners was offered to Hastings Middle School staff and two composting/vermicomposting workshops for Hastings community members.