On July 31, Waldorf Association of Lawrence Board of Directors President Rick Mitchell represented Prairie Moon Waldorf School at the first-ever Kansas Green Schools Conference, "It's Easy Being Green: Innovation, Inspiration, Implementation." As part of a panel of grantees talking about their Kansas Green Schools projects, Rick described the Okanis Garden Water Quality Grant, made possible by the Kansas Association of Conservation & Environmental Education and Kansas Department of Health & Environment. The 2009 Kansas Green Schools grants were awarded to two Kansas high schools and Prairie Moon Waldorf School. The conference, held at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, was attended by educators and others with schools from throughout the state of Kansas.
