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NYC students to build green living walls on Rockefeller Plaza as part of Center’s Green Apple Initiative
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The Center for Green Schools and The Princeton Review Release 4th Annual Guide to Green Colleges
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At The Princeton Review, we are genuinely pleased to partner for the fourth consecutive year with our friends at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Center For Green Sch…
President Clinton and Our Green Apple Partners Set the Bar High for this Year’s Green Apple Day of Service
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For former President Bill Clinton, the “right kind of future” for today’s K-12 students includes careers in energy efficiency and green schools.
Igniting Change through Day of Service
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In 2012, Jason Gasperich of Connor Sports, a USGBC Member Company, received an email from the Green Apple team asking him to become involved with the Day of Service. J…
School Leaders Stay Focused While Change Abounds
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The 2013 National Conference on Education took place in Los Angeles last month and saw thousands of superintendents gather from across the country to learn, network a…
The Price of Education
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Let’s cut to the chase, shall we?
The legwork has been done. The research has been conducted. The numbers have been crunched. As far as we can tell, it is going to cost the U.S. an investment of nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars to upgrade our nation’s schools just to working order, and nearly half a trillion to bring them into the 21st century.
And the cut-to-the-chase part boils down to one simple but undeniably tough question: How can we possibly afford to do that?
How Can EdSpaces Provide the Ideal Home for the Green Schools Movement?
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The National School Supply and Equipment Association’s (NSSEA) EdSpaces Planning Committee met recently to plan the 2013 event taking place December 4-6 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. We were pleased to have Patrick Lane from USGBC’s Center for Green Schools with us help make EdSpaces the meeting place for the many relevant participants in the green schools movement whose jobs are to design, furnish, operate or maintain educational institutions.
Celebrating a CT Green School Program Worthy of Best Collaboration
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Over the past three years, we’ve been proud to work closely with several federal agencies and more than 80 different NGOs to help develop and support the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools recognition award. There’s widespread agreement in Washington that this collaborative program, which has brought so many different stakeholders together, is an historic milestone program in the green schools movement, and we tip our hats to the U.S.
A Distressing Diagnosis for the ‘Bones of Our Economy’
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If this news were coming from your doctor, you would be very, very worried.
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The Search is On: Win $5,000 for Your School!
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We have a lot to learn when it comes to green schools. We acknowledge, categorize and celebrate schools in the United States that save resources and improve health and learning, yet we know far too little about comparable schools beyond this nation’s borders. At the Center for Green Schools, we’ve worked hard to come to a comprehensive definition of a “green school.” This definition has allowed us to identify schools that are improving the places where our children learn.