Back Home Initiatives
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Song
Workshops- listen to songs created in the classroom
Song
Competition- winners
Documentary
Competition- winners
Back Home Tours
Discover the spirit and value of our community, the environment and local heroes.
See aspects of Perth County on a school tour.
Wonderful local innovators, entrepreneurs, organic farmers, alternative energy providers and more, come to schools and share their knowledge.
Anaerobic Digester (Biogas)
information on how they operate here
further biodigester external site information
Stratford Northwestern Secondary Students
Grade 11 and 12 manufacturing and biology students
Thank you to Nick Terpstra and the Terpstra family
for a tour of their dairy operation and anaerobic digester.
And thank you to Don Hilborn, from OMAFRA, who helped explain the workings of this energy production system and recycling/use of nutrients.
Dairy operation
Anaerobic digester
Alternative Energy Tour to Anna Mae's (wind turbine), Energrow (Biodiesel)
Stratford Northwestern Secondary Students
Grade 11 and 12 manufacturing, co-op and physics students
"Wind turbines have brakes in case it is too windy"
"I learned that wind turbines can only be used in the country because of the greater amount of turbulence in the city, it is not as effective."
"Wind energy is sold into the grid at about 14¢ and bought back for about 6¢. It is faily cheap to buy and will pay for itself in 5-6 years."
"I learned that biofuel can be developed relatively easily. I always thought it was a very involved process, but it is a possibility in everyday settings. Energy sources are a field with a lot of possibilities."
"I learned it takes a tonne of soy beans to make 80 litres of bio fuel."
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