Nominate A Green Difference Maker Today!
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JOIN US at the 2020 Green Difference Awards
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
10 - 12pm
MA State House
FEATURING:
- Karen Anderson, award-winning journalist & member of WCVB 5 Investigates, as Ceremony Emcee
- The Manton Avenue Project of Rhode Island will be performing scenes from their musical about saving the planet written by 5th graders called "Hear Our Voices: A Musical About Kids Saving El Planeta!"
- Quincy High School Eco-Fashion Show
Green Difference Award winners include students, schools and teachers, as well as business, government, and community groups.
Awards are given out in the following areas of Outstanding Green/Sustainable Practices in :
- Green and Healthy Schools
- Food and Agriculture
- Waste Management
- Green Living and Consumerism
- Energy
- Land, Air, Natural World
- STEM and the Future of Sustainability
- Transportation
- Outdoor Learning and Exploration
- Lifetime Achievement Award for a hero who has dedicated his or her life to Green Education
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Project Green Schools Attends CWI's 2020 Institute SOUTH
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Project Green School’s
Founder and Executive Director, Robin Buchanan, and Student Officer, Haley (presenting in video above), were recently in Lima Peru working with Community Works Institute (CWI). They were attending CWI’s 2020 Institute SOUTH America on Place Based Service-Learning, Sustainability, January 13-17, 2020. They shared their stories, as well as PGS programs, resources, opportunities for the 2020 school year and ways to collaborate. CWI also offers Summer EAST and WEST Institutes in Brooklyn and Los Angeles respectively.
CWI’s Institutes focus on
Place Based Service-Learning
and
Sustainability
and are closely
aligned with PGS programs and Pathways, providing holistic opportunities for K-16 students, schools and community-based educators or teams to begin or advance projects and programs, within classrooms or across grade levels. Institute SOUTH was a powerful week of learning, design, and collaboration in the Peruvian capital of Lima, one of the world’s most richly diverse and culturally vibrant cities.
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REGISTER NOW for the Project Green Schools Golf Tournament
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Join Us - Registration is Now Open for Project Green Schools Golf Tournament on June 15, 2020 at White Cliffs Country Club (Plymouth, MA).
Click to register
Project Green Schools is raising money for environmental education while implementing sustainable practices to reduce our eco-footprint at the Tournament in a variety of ways, including having water bottle filling stations, solar powered golf carts and charging stations, vegetarian meal choices and asking that all golfers understand and adhere to our Tournament Eco-Pledge.
View our full Pledge.
For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Tournament Chair, Stanley Sidman, at
busdevgroup1@aol.com
or
(774-268-9956)
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States' Deadlines for Green Schools Applicants Fast Approaching!
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Many states' application periods for 2019–20 cycle nominees to U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) will be closing around the holidays. These deadlines vary by state. State education agencies often collaborate with other state agencies and partners to administer the program and will ultimately nominate their selections to the Department by Feb. 14, 2020.
Check to see if your state participates in ED-GRS by locating your state recognition award administrator
here
.
Alternatively, you can contact your
chief state school officer
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Green Schools Society Members End of Year Recognition Forms Open in MARCH
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REMINDER to our National and International Green Schools Society members to track your hours!
End of year recognition forms will open online in March and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
The FAQs
area of our Green Schools Society website has everything you are looking for: handbooks, marketing templates, induction certificates, tracking sheets, end of year recognition information and more!
NEWLY RELEASED! Having an induction ceremony for NGSS or IGSS? Head over to our website and download our Induction Certificates.
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National Youth Council Corner
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As a way to help you live greener this year, the National Youth Council has created a challenge calendar for the month of February!!! Try and see how many challenges you can accomplish!! Make sure to post pictures of you and your friends in action, making sure to tag us at @projectgreenschools on Instagram. If you want to be featured, submit your pictures and videos to
tinyurl.com/nycfebsub
Follow the National Youth Council students on their Instagram page:
pgs_council
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Project Green Schools Partners with The Center for Learning with Nature
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The Center for Learning with Nature is a non-profit organization leading efforts to reconnect children with Nature in school environments while engaging students in STEAM learning, through the fascinating world of Nature-inspired innovation. Our award-winning curricula, free for public school teachers, is now used in hundreds of schools across the U.S. and other countries. Learn more at
www.LearningWithNature.org
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Boston 2020 - 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
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Join educators, students and community members on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day to help stop climate change. In 1970, 20 million people, took to the streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward. This led to sweeping environmental changes including Clean Air, Water and Endangered Species Acts. It is time we mobilize again - for our people, the oceans and forests, and biodiversity at home and around the planet. Join us!
http://www.earthday2020boston.org/take-action/
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Bring Scenic Conservation Education to Your School
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Check out our new
Scenic Pathway in a partnership with Scenic America to educate and engage your students on scenic conservation.
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Eco Heroes helps schools reduce their footprint by reducing their school waste. The average-size elementary school in the U.S produces 18,760 pounds of waste per school year. More than 50% of that waste is single-use products, which ends up in landfills where it can take THOUSANDS of years to break down or turns up in the ocean, where it causes pollution, the death of marine animals and ends up in the food chain. We need to stop using recycling as a solution and understand that recycling is a process that pollutes as the recycling waste needs to be transported and transformed which produces carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Therefore, when it comes to our school waste, recycling should always be option B, REDUCTION being the main solution.
We created an easy to follow Eco Lunch Fundraising Program which can lead to reduce your school waste by 30% and win an Eco Hero School Award in just 3 weeks.
Learn more
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When: March 2 - 4, 2020
Where: Hilton Portland Downtown, Portland, Oregon
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from and network with educational leaders, green building professionals, nonprofit partners, and others who are passionate about the future of green schools. Five tracks of programming will be offered:
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Watson Institute Summer Accelerator Programs
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Watson Institute
, a revolutionary new model of education for next-generation innovators and social entrepreneurs, is searching the globe for those gritty idealists and pioneers who believe they can change the world.
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Events
Summit theme, "See Yourself in STEM: Connecting Educators to Employers"
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at the DCU Center in Worcester!
April 30 - May 4, 2020
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Resources, Grants, Recognitions, Scholarships, Internships and Competitions
EarthEcho is excited to announce the launch of the OurEcho Challenge - a new competition designed to empower youth and their mentors to save the planet! Find out about this challenge (and the prizes available!) at
www.OurEchoChallenge.org.
Environmental Education game-based learning
YVFP’s Civic Engagement and Democracy Curriculum
brings inspirational stories into classrooms across all grades and subject areas. Ideal for ELA, Science, Social Studies and Civics classrooms with lessons available for 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.
The
World of 7 Billion student video contest bring technology and creativity into your middle and high school classes.
The deadline for submissions is February 27, 2020
– use this
lesson plan
to get started now! Full contest guidelines, resources for research, past winners, and more can be found
here
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www.projectgreenschools.org
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