Green schools 101
Everything you need to know about greening your child's school.
Green school news
- School districts reducing energy costs
- Farm to School programs are getting local food in cafeterias
- School offers paper-free handouts
- Ohio's first LEED Platinum certified single-family home is the final project of a high school program
Benefits of an eco-friendly school
Ways to green your school
Our favorite green school links
- Help your school reduce cafeteria waste
- Schools in Westchester form green coalition
- Earning a degree in green
- University’s sustainability building goes green
- Cash for schools that are going green
- Green nontoxic lunch boxes
- High schoolers use cell phones to reduce carbon
- Southwestern's environmental studies program gets boost
- Michael Pollan's State of the Movement Address
- Raise funds for your child's school while raising her IQ
- Teachers' gifts that keep on giving
- Green parenting tips for beating the recession
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Encourage your students to go paperless by empowering them with cloud storage tools. Office Live Workspace is a great online tool that provides users with 5GB of storage for free, and it syncs seamlessly with Office. You can learn more about it here: http://workspace.officelive.com/en-us/learn-more.
Cheers,
Kim
Microsoft Office Live Outreach
How Eco-Friendly is your PTA? The new school year is in full swing, PTA meetings are in session, and ideas are flowing! But are you finding that old habits and the same fundraisers are hard to break? There are so many new and great, not to mention GREEN, ways to raise money (and awareness) for your school. Kids Konserve Waste-Free Challenges are a great way for schools to take on and to raise money with a message.
Kids are the VOICE of CHANGE and so is your PTA!
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I agree the world is obviously way over populated, and that humans are the cause of all this destruction, but if the smart and eco-minded people stop having babies, don't you think the world will eventually be full of littering, fuel-burning, polluting idiots? I mean, if the people who don't care about the earth continue to have children (which they will, because they don't care) then who will be there to pick up the pieces and try to make things right again?
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Start a green team: Make your kid join the only club lamer than the chess club.
Skip the supplies: Being cheap is good for the environment. **** the economy.
Ban bus idling: Your child should hop on the bus as it zooms by at 50 mph.
Go paperless: Trees Never grow back.
Clean up: **** stopping the spread of disease among the most vulnerable part of the populace by using effective cleaning agents to kill infectious microbes and lice..... More
If you really want to be kind to the planet then stop having children. We humans are the biggest negative impact on the planet. We have way overpopulated the world and pushed thousands of species into extinction by doing so. So all this talk about green schools, etc just makes me laugh. If you HAVE to have children, have ONE. No more 3-6 child families pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.
You can download free guidance on improving the energy efficiency of your school from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers at www.ashrae.org/freeaedg. This book helps you go beyond minimum standards.
on discs would be much more harmful for the environment than doing it on a piece of paper...Just buy recycled paper =D
I share your goals and strategies! I run an organization called the Green Schools Initiative, www.greenschools.net . We have developed a lot of really helpful resources to make it easier for schools to go green. Check out our site where you can Take a Quiz to see how green your school is, read profiles of other schools, use our Green Schools Buying Guide to find green products, get curricula ideas and.... More
Jenn,
Thanks for your information. This segment of the population is all too often overlooked. I have been the PTSA Environmental Chair of both an elementary, and middle school for my two daughters for the past 7 years. I have also just been asked to Chair the PTSA Environmental Committee for their high school even though they aren't even in high school yet. My passion about educating students about the environment has led me to found a website that can be found at .... More
Thanks for a great article. There's so much information out there and so many wonderful resources to greening a school. I'm undertaking it at my son's school and am delightfully overwhelmed by all the free information that is available. I'm grateful.
Ginger, when is your book due out?
I "Believe" I didn't do a spell check~
Schools across South Carolina are establishing model quality sustainable eco-projects through the SC Green Step Schools Initiative. Read more at www.greenstepschools.com
I am a 4th grade teacher. My students reuse a lot because they often can't afford new pencils and backpacks. I don't recycle papers if we can reuse the back; kids go to my "oops" box for scrap paper. I hope they're learning life skills!
...for greening schools? If so, how does a school district apply? Must we go through the state?
