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Washington, D.C. – (Oct. 16, 2014) – Hanley Wood, USGBC and EMerge Alliance announced today that the world’s first Net Zero Zone will be unveiled at the 2014 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo taki…
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Registration now open for fifth year of Campus Conservation Nationals
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2 Oct 2014
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It takes three weeks to form a habit, and this spring, were asking college students and staff to do just that—form a habit of conservation!
From February through April 2015, college…
Get to know our newest Green Schools Fellow: Kristen Trovillion
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2 Oct 2014
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The Center for Green Schools launched the Green Schools Fellowship program in 2011 to place sustainability officers in school districts around the country. More and more school systems ar…
Communities Across the Globe Join USGBC’s Green Apple Day of Service
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30 Sep 2014
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More than 3,700 service projects took place throughout the world with hundreds of thousands of volunteers participatingread more
Why I care: Getting my students to go green with Gardeneers
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26 Sep 2014
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In college I studied Conservation Ecology, Biology, and Permaculture Design and then relocated to Florida after graduation for work with sea turtles and tortoises. My background allows m…
Green Apple Day of Service: Bettering schools for the people inside them
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25 Sep 2014
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To call school important is a serious understatement. It’s where roughly a quarter of all Americans spend their days. It’s a place to mold minds and shape behaviors, which ma…
New census shows that solar energy is big in U.S. schools
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24 Sep 2014
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The Solar Foundation (TSF) and its research partners at SEIA just released the National Solar Schools Census, and it’s chock-full of information about solar energy use in our nation’s sc…
USGBC celebrates World Green Building Week with Green Apple Day of Service
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23 Sep 2014
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The World Green Building Council’s World Green Building Week is in now full swing, celebrating the efforts of Green Building Councils (GBC) from 100 countries around the world…
Canada Green Building Council crowns the first winner of the Greenest School in Canada
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23 Sep 2014
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The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and its Canada Coalition for Green Schools have announced that Dunbarton High School in Pickering, Ontario, is the winner of…
Serve your teachers this Green Apple Day of Service
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22 Sep 2014
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My mother was a teacher at my high school. I know what comes to mind — some scene from 16 Candles of ultimate teenage embarrassment and disdain, but that’s not how …