

Shouldn’t our kids learn how to live more sustainable lives? Others struggled with wildfire smoke this summer, and watched a family swept away by a flash flood in Bucks County. Some live in heat islands, where a lack of green infrastructure makes temperatures up to 20 degrees hotter than the rest of the city. After all, the District’s 120,000-some students were already living in a world shaped by global climate change. Garner knew sustainability needed to be taught, as well. These changes, while important, were about operation - not preparation.

The man was being treated at a hospital, but his name and further details on his condition were not disclosed.Megan Garner’s first acts as sustainability manager for the School District of Philadelphia were to help the district update buildings to be more energy efficient, including shifts to compostable lunch trays. The worker suffered first- and second-degree burns to his arms and torso. Sparks from the cutting device apparently slipped into the tank and caught fire, causing the explosion that threw the worker about five feet and sent flames shooting up about 30 feet.

Russell Swift School.įred Nickles, the town's interim schools superintendent, says the worker was cutting into an opening in an old tank to thoroughly clean it. Wednesday in Egg Harbor Township, at a site next to the H. A construction worker who was helping to transfer fuel from underground tanks to new above-ground ones near a school was burned when an explosion occurred. A construction worker who was helping to transfer fuel from underground tanks to new above-ground ones near a school was burned when an explosion occurred.ĮGG HARBOR TWP., N.J.
