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On Monday, April 22, 2013, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Acting EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley celebrated the 43rd Earth Day at Mundo Verde Charter School in Washington, D.C., to announce the second year of honorees of the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) award program.
The Center for Green Schools team was up bright and early this morning for the Earth Day segment on the TODAY Show, where we worked with the Green Bronx Machine to build living walls on the plaza and teach the crowd about the importance of sustainability in schools.
The Center for Green Schools team was up bright and early this morning for the Earth Day segment on the TODAY Show, where we worked with the Green Bronx Machine to build living walls on the plaza and teach the crowd about the importance of sustainability in schools.
NYC students to build green living walls on Rockefeller Plaza as part of Center’s Green Apple Initiative
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) Americas Regional Network is celebrating Earth Day with the release of a new educational video highlighting the work the Green Building Councils (GBCs) of the Americas are doing, and who is involved.
The video notes how the GBCs are connected through North America, Central America, and South America and how all work together towards facilitating the transformation of the building industry towards sustainability.
The U.S. Green Building Council is pleased to announce that space has been added to allow for an additional 100 attendees at the premier gathering of energy efficiency experts: EE Global 2013! Registrations are available on a first-come, first-served basis so be sure to purchase your seat today and join us May 20-21 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
University of Florida and Illinois Institute of Technology lead in design of green infrastructure on campus
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the four winners of the Campus RainWorks Challenge, a new design challenge created to inspire the next generation of landscape architects, planners and engineers to develop innovative green infrastructure systems that reduce stormwater pollution and support sustainable communities.
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe