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Author, Student
Elizabeth Adesanya
Urban Assembly Institute of Math & Science for Young Women
Hello everyone, my name is Elizabeth Adesanya and I am in the ninth grade. I live in New York City where my classmates and I are trying to teach people in our community about caring for our environmen...
Author, Community Member
Dan Burden
Walk Live
For more than twenty years, adults have come to see the effects of our abandoned city-making skills. We have transformed once great neighborhoods into car-menacing streets or developments. It is time...
Author, Principals & Administrators
Eleanor Ashton
Evergreen Community Charter School
Based in the mountains of Western North Carolina, we at Evergreen Community Charter School are committed to teaching environmental education through both curriculum integration and energy reduction pr...
Author, Principals & Administrators
Ghita L. Carroll, Ph.D
Boulder Valley School District
Students at the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) have been recycling in their classrooms for more than two decades, thanks to a partnership with Eco-cycle. But in the past few years, BVSD has tak...
Author, Teacher
Sara Laimon
Environmental Charter High School
The closest that many students get to the origins of the food on their dinner table is at the local grocery store – where, regardless of the season, you can buy almost any fruit or vegetable grown alm...
OP ED
Author, Community Member
Michael K. Stone
Center for Ecoliteracy
"Green" is the color of the day. Not only on Earth Day. I Googled "Green Products" and got ... 150 million hits ... "Green Jobs" (153 million) ... "Green Politics" (94 million) ... "Green Living" (84...
Author, Teacher
Stacy Sinclair, EdD
EdExcellence Consulting, Inc.
This time of year I just can’t help it. I think about commencements speeches and road trips. I think about the impatient child in the back seat asking, “are we there yet?” and the exasperated parent t...
Author, Teacher
Jason Flom
Cornerstone Learning Community
In the 500 years since Columbus’s Big Misunderstanding in the “West Indies”, our education system has come a long way. After manhandling the country away from the natives (who’s “schoo...
Author, Community Member
Deborah Moore
Green Schools Initiative
There I was: the eager, new parent volunteering to help out at my daughter’s Kindergarten monthly Pizza Day Lunch. I’m sure those of you who are parents have been there too: the anticipation of seeing...
Author, Community Member
Sean Miller
Earth Day Network
The environmental movement has come a long way since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Before then, a mass movement for the environment was either nascent or distant. Typically, people view...
Spotlight
Author, Community Member
Lisa Bennett
Center for Ecoliteracy
"Who is really responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf," a group of New Orleans students ask during a mock trial they recently staged, "BP or everyone who uses oil?"
Perhaps, a student named Jordan...
Author, Community Member
Sidney Stevens
Freelance Journalist
Kids’ laughter and footsteps echo down the hallways as they make their way into classrooms for the start of the school day. In many ways, it’s a scene being played out in schools across America — exce...
Author, Community Member
Jessica Culverhouse
National Environmental Education Foundation
Yampah Mountain High School is not your typical “green school.” The average student at this alternative high school in Glenwood Springs, Colo. has not been successful in a traditional high school, for...
Author, Teacher
Stacy Sinclair, EdD
EdExcellence Consulting, Inc.
Think of education funding as a series of stepping stones laid into the soil to keep your feet from getting muddy or wet. The natural setting abounds and while walking along the path you hear the gent...
Author, Community Member
Senn Brown
Green Charter Schools Network
Now, forty years after Gaylord Nelson launched the first Earth Day, how would you describe his legacy? In foreboding words the founder of Earth Day warned that we were pursuing a self-destructiv...
Author, Community Member
Hillary H Kirchman
Montgomery County Public Schools
Have you ever heard of the trash vortex in the Pacific Ocean? It is a floating garbage mass in the ocean forming a trash island between Hawaii and California. As our population increases,...
The Facts
Author, Facility Expert
Bill Orr
Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS)
School is literally making people sick. Fifty-five million of our children go to school every day in over 125,000 school buildings across America. Many of these students attend public and...
Author, Facility Expert
Brian K. Kasher, CET
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
Going green has become part of the everyday business of educating students at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), driving operational efficiencies and enhancing the educational process through engagi...
Author, Community Member
Cindy Long
National Education Association (NEA) Interactive Media
After learning about a fragile ecosystem in his community, Grant, a seventh-grader at Teeland Middle School in Wasilla, Alaska, decided to change his ways.
“I feel differently about the riparian zone...