- Eco-Schools USA - National Wildlife Federation
Green your school inside, outside and throughout your curriculum! Join 50 other countries in this international initiative designed to encourage whole-school action for the environment. Become a U.S. Eco-School today!
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- NRDC's Green Squad: The Squad
Green Squad – www.nrdc.org/greensquad A website co-developed by Natural Resources Defense Council and Healthy Schools Network for middle-schoolers to help them investigate the school environment. Find the environmental problems, compare them to your school, and use the fact sheets to improve the environment at your school. There is also a Parent-Teacher Room and virtual library to help with the investigation. Or visit www.healthyschools.org/kids and learn how you can use your school newspaper to report on environmental conditions.
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- Act Green
Scholastic.com's Act Green site. Has the Greenerator and is the Green Team HQ.
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- Alliance to Save Energy
Green Schools programming. Energy costs are an enormous expense for our nation's schools. To help free up more resources for education while strengthening academic learning, the Alliance's Green Schools Program engages students in creating energy-saving activities in their schools, using hands-on, real-world projects. Through basic changes in the operations, maintenance, and individual behavior, Green Schools has achieved reductions in energy use of 5 to 15 percent among participating schools. In addition, Green Schools encourages students to apply the lessons of energy-efficiency message in their homes and communities. Learn more about Green Schools and how to get involved and visit our Green Schools in Action page to read featured case studies from our sc
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- Center for Ecoliteracy - Education for Sustainability
The Center for Ecoliteracy supports and advances education for sustainable living. We believe that schools play a pivotal role in moving us beyond our growing environmental crises and toward a sustainable society. We recognize schooling for sustainability as a process that fosters abundant living on a finite planet and makes teaching and learning come alive. We bring a passion to our work that stems from our conviction that the best hope for learning to live sustainably lies in schooling that returns to the real basics: engaging with the natural world; understanding how nature sustains life; nurturing healthy communities; exploring the consequences of how we feed and provision ourselves; caring about the places where we live and the people and creatures in
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- Green School 101 WebQuest
Title: Green School 101 Description: This is an exploration in "Going Green", what that really means, why we need to do it, and what steps we can take large and small to do our part to protect our environment. Grade Level: 6-8 Curriculum: English / Language Arts Keywords: earth, energy, environment, global concern, natural resources, pollution, reuse, recycle, reduce, green, going green, Environmental Impact, Earth Preservation
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- Making Kenosha Green! — GreenKenosha.org
Grassroots organization interested in helping schools do service learning projects connected to the greening concept.
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- NRDC's Green Squad
Getting started with the Green Squad's tour of a virtual school to identify changes that can make the school greener in terms of energy use and health promotion.
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- U.S. Energy Information Administration
Information on lots of kinds of energy, geography, environment.
Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government
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