Lakeview Teacher Heads Up Team Green

Name: Elaine Hazel, a Spanish teacher at . Hazel and Mindy Miller are co-sponsors of Team Green, an environmental club, at the school.

Green dream: Team Green recycles paper and plastic at Lakeview.

“We have young people who are very concerned about the future of our world, the environment and the shape that it is going to be in,” Hazel said. “We want to encourage that mentality, and they are interested in helping in a general way. This is the perfect cause.”

Hazel hopes her students continue to think about the environment after they graduate.

“Just talk more, learn more, read more—just continue that interest,” she said. “I think they will. I think it’s going to be a continuous source of concern. Resources are not infinite. They need to realize that.”

Why go green? “I’m really concerned about our health—the condition of our food, our water, the air,” said Hazel, who has been a vegetarian since the 1980s.

“I just want all of that to be cleaner and purer,” she said. “It’s just part of what I think is important about our lifestyle and quality of life."