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9 Oct 2014
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Celebrating green building in New Orleans is like being in Memphis on Elvis’s birthday—and you can bet it will be just as big of a party.
Tag: Center for Green Schools
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Get in on the green schools action at Greenbuild 2014
Published on:9 Oct 2014Feature image:
Celebrating green building in New Orleans is like being in Memphis on Elvis’s birthday—and you can bet it will be just as big of a party.
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Get in on the green schools action at Greenbuild 2014
Published on:9 Oct 2014Feature image:
Celebrating green building in New Orleans is like being in Memphis on Elvis’s birthday—and you can bet it will be just as big of a party.
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Registration now open for fifth year of Campus Conservation Nationals
Published on:2 Oct 2014Feature image:
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, colleges and universities participating in Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN) will have the opportunity to compete to reduce electricity and water consumption in the largest conservation competition for colleges and universities in the world.
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Get to know our newest Green Schools Fellow: Kristen Trovillion
Published on:2 Oct 2014Feature image:
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 are realizing that they need to put more focused attention on resource efficiency, health and wellness, and environmental literacy; and these important topics get the dedication they need when sustainability is someone’s job.
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Why I care: Getting my students to go green with Gardeneers
Published on:26 Sep 2014Feature image:
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 me to understand how nature works and inspires me to seek out new information and ideas.
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Green Apple Day of Service: Bettering schools for the people inside them
Published on:25 Sep 2014Feature image:
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 makes it the ideal place to not only raise awareness about energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, but to implement practices that can become habits and create the next generation of sustainability leaders.
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New census shows that solar energy is big in U.S. schools
Published on:24 Sep 2014Feature image:
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 schools.
The Center for Green Schools at USGBC aims to support all schools in becoming healthy, safe and resource-efficient places for teaching and learning, and putting numbers to the accomplishments of U.S. schools is getting more and more important.
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Canada Green Building Council crowns the first winner of the Greenest School in Canada
Published on:23 Sep 2014Feature image:
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 the inaugural CaGBC Greenest School in Canada competition.
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Serve your teachers this Green Apple Day of Service
Published on:22 Sep 2014Feature image:
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 I felt. Instead, I just never needed the, “Woah, my teacher is a person” realization when you finally see them out in the wild, like grocery shopping or at the mall. Although seeing my science teacher, Mrs. Smirkovski, at the movies on my 8th grade date was quite the shock to me, teachers were always people. People I loved.