Green Schools |
| The Green
Schools Initiative | How to make our schools greener and healthier places for our kids.
Case studies, guides, tips for parents. |
| Build
Green Schools | Build Green Schools connects parents,
teachers, students, administrators and concerned citizens to the resources they
need to advocate for healthy, environmentally friendly, nurturing schools. |
| The Green
Flag Program | Green Flags schools, air quality, IPM,
non-toxic products, kids, recycling... |
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Connecticut Foundation for Environmentally Safe Schools |
Connecticut Foundation for Environmentally Safe Schools working for pollution
free schools in Connecticut |
The
Saint Louis County Resourceful Schools Project
Missouri | RSP assists Saint Louis County schools by supporting recycling programs, promoting purchase of recycled content products, and providing innovative lessons in math, science, social studies and communication arts related to the study of sold waste. |
Green
Schools for You (Global
Learning)
New Jersey | Saves schools money on energy costs and strengthens academic learning by showing the relevance of science and math and by teaching about energy and links between energy efficiency, the environment, and finances. |
| Center for
Ecoliteracy | The Center for Ecoliteracy is a public
foundation working with schools and networks that is dedicated to education for
sustainable living. The Center is a pioneer in providing tools, ideas, and support for combining hands-on experience in the natural world with curricular innovation in K–12 education. It administers a grant program and donor-advised funds,... |
| Action for
Nature | Action for Nature is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to encouraging young people to take personal action to improve the
environment and make this world a better place for humans and nature. |
| International
Eco-Schools | Eco-Schools is a program for environmental management and certification, and sustainable development education, for schools. |
| FEE -
Foundation for Environmental Education | A non-governmental and non-profit organisation
aiming to promote sustainable development through environmental education
(formal school education, training of staff and general awareness raising). |
MerryMontessori.com
Oregon, Portland | Stimulating and nurturing eco-friendly educational programs for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. |
Sustainable School Buildings |
| Solar Schools |
Case studies, index of schools gone solar (USA + International), solar data
monitoring systems, ... |
| High Performance School Design |
Interactive courses on this site are offered free of charge as a public benefit for design and engineering professionals specializing in sustainable design for K-12 schools. High performance school design integrates day lighting, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency. |
Chartwell
School
California, Seaside |
With an initial extra cost of just 5-10%, energy use will be 60% or more below that of similar, conventional buildings. |
Green Education Publications |
| Green Teacher |
Green Teacher is a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and
global education across the curriculum at all grade levels. |
Eco Education for Schools |
CarboSchools
International | Carbon science researchers and secondary school teachers invite young people to learn about local and global impacts of climate change, explore scientific research on the topic and act locally to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. |
Healthy Schools |
| Healthy
Schools Network | National environmental health organization that does research, information, education, coalition-building, and advocacy to ensure that every child has a healthy learning environment that is clean and in good repair. |
California Safe
Schools
California | California Safe Schools is an organization with
resources on safety, health and environmental topics for the school and in the
community. |
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Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment | A North American coalition with 275 individual and organizational members representing government, academic, medical and community-based organizations committed to building a strong, sustainable and collaborative movement to protect current and future generations from harmful environmental exposures. |
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Healthy Schools Campaign | Healthy Schools Campaign advocates for policies and practices that allow all students, teachers and staff to learn and work in a healthy school environment. |
| Mount
Sinai Children's Environmental Health Center | Protecting
children against environmental threats to health. |
Green Children Programs |
| Kids for
Saving the Earth | Environmental education curriculum by
mail and online for free at Kids for Saving Earth. Environmental education on
conservation, endangered species, rainforests, forests, toxic waste sites,
health issues, ecological concerns and much more is covered on this website.
Earth day should be every day! |
| The Green
Squad (NRDC) | The Green Squad teaches kids about the relationship between their schools and environmental and health issues. The site is designed primarily for students in fifth through eighth grade, but also offers information for younger and older students as well as parents and teachers. |
| Young
Reporters for the Environment | Young Reporters for the Environment is a program of the Foundation for Environmental Education designed for secondary school pupils and teachers. Each group must define its own investigation project about a local environmental issue (which topic, which activities, which production). |
High Performance Schools |
| NH Partnership for
High Performance Schools | Our mission is to maximize the
number of high performance schools built in New Hampshire over the next decade.
Studies conducted in California, Colorado, and Washington schools confirmed an
anticipated correlation between certain attributes of high performance schools
and student performance. |
| DesignShare | DesignShare is a directory of educational facility planning resources, and home to the DesignShare School Design Awards. Search DesignShare’s Interactive Map of Award-winning projects, plans, and teams in the world’s most comprehensive database of innovative learning environments. |
High
Performance Schools Exchange
Massachusetts | Goal: Lead the region towards the long-term goal of, by 2010, implementing high performance design and construction principles in the majority of new and renovated schools to provide excellent learning and teaching environments that are energy efficient, cost-effective and use sustainable technologies.
Case studies, design guide, ... |
| Commercial
Alert | Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the
commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting
children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental
integrity and democracy. |
Gardening for Children at School, Farming, Green
Schoolyards |
|
KidsGardening.org | Kids gardening explores gardening
resources for family, teachers and beginner or experienced gardeners. |
|
FarmToSchool.org | Farm to School programs are popping up all over the U.S. These programs connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and supporting local small farmers. |
| San
Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance | San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance envisions a future in which each schoolyard operates in concert with its neighborhood and local ecology to foster higher academic achievement, increased environmental stewardship, creativity and community building. |
| EcoSchool Design | EcoSchool Design™ seeks to assist schools, and those who care about them, in transforming paved schoolyards into vibrant ecosystems for outdoor learning. |
The Edible
Schoolyard
Berkeley, California | The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom. |
California School
Garden Network
California | A non-profit whose partners represent a variety of
state agencies,private companies, educational institutions and non-profit
organizations all dedicated to the mission of creating and sustaining gardens in
every willing school in California. |
Green Campuses |
Campus
Ecology
(National Wildlife Federation) | The Campus Ecology program of the National Wildlife Federation promotes climate leadership and sustainability among colleges and universities by providing resources and technical support, creating networking opportunities and organizing education events. |
| Recyclemania! | RecycleMania
is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university
recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus
communities. |
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