Project Green Schools "Race for the Planet: Virtual Home Edition"
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Project Green Schools (PGS) is launching “Race for the Planet: Virtual Home Edition,” a new program by PGS adapted for virtual participation during the COVID-19 Pandemic to accommodate social distancing and/or home quarantines this spring.
Join us on LIVE on
Facebook
on EARTH DAY, APRIL 22, 2020, as we RELEASE A SPECIAL VIDEO
featuring notable personalities, including: Enes Kanter (Boston Celtics), Bill McKibben (350.org), Philippe Cousteau (grandson of Jacques Cousteau, EarthEcho), Jamie Margolin (Zero Hour), Ovie Mughelli (Atlanta Falcons), Ashlan Gorse Cousteau (Producer), Bob Perciasepe (C2es, former US EPA Administrator), Valerie Sununu (First Lady of NH), Chloe Maxmin (divest Harvard, ME State Representative), Skye Flanigan (C-CHANGE), Jon Powers (Clean Capital, former Chief Sustainability Officer for US Army), and members of our National Youth Council. This video also features music from Buffalo Tom and Brooke Leifer!
Help show solidarity and raise awareness for environmental action, STEAM skills-building and green learning while social distancing by changing your profile picture on social media to the 'Race for the Planet' official logo. Be the change for community, for planet and for all living things!
Download logo.
- 11:00 Launch-Race for the Planet Video
- 12:00 Brooke Leifer-LIVE
- 1:00 Amanda McCarthy-LIVE
- 2:00 Alissa Musto-LIVE
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We are thrilled to have helped schools, students and communities remain connected through experiential learning while promoting healthy lifestyles through physical activity during this difficult time. I want to thank our sponsor, National Grid, for making possible this virtual opportunity to create excitement for environmental action, STEAM skills-building and green learning, as now more than ever, we are reminded of the power of innovative sustainability action to create a healthier future
,” said Robin Buchanan, Founder & Executive Director of Project Green Schools.
Project Green Schools, a national non-profit dedicated to developing the next generation of environmental leaders, designed Race for the Planet to align with the organization’s “Pathways to Greening Your School.” Race for the Planet: Virtual Home Edition consisted of a series of challenges focusing on Energy, Waste, Food/Agriculture, Water, Climate Change and Air for students to participate and compete in to make an impact with their environmental knowledge and creativity. Participants then post and share their activities and achievements on social media, highlighting events such as an Upcycling Challenge, a Sustainable Scavenger Hunt, “Plogging,” which entails litter cleanup combined with exercise, and designed custom sustainability games for their Race for the Planet: Virtual Home Edition events.
Race for the Planet, sponsored by National Grid, aims to engage students, schools and communities in environmental action while raising money for Energy & Environmental Education.
Donate to our Facebook Campaign for Race for the Planet
HERE
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A Message from our National Youth Council Member
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"Staying Environmental During Quarantine"
Written by National Youth Council Member Diya
With the onset of COVID-19 and most states imposing stay at home orders on their residents, it can sometimes be hard to find activities to occupy your time. It may feel like it is impossible to make a positive impact on the world around you while cooped up inside but this is not the case. There are many campaigns and actions that you can take that will not only give you something to do while in quarantine, but will also affect the environment in a great way.
First is the idea of digital activism. Smartphones and the internet have changed the way movements and political events are organized. Digital activism is a form of activism that uses the Internet and digital media as platforms for ...
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Adventerra makes board games that kids will want to play over and over as they learn to protect the planet. Players make choices to save resources and fight global warming – and the more they work together, the more exciting it gets!
WaterGame:
In this cooperative game, you’ll win by saving the most water – but you must be generous too. Don’t let the other players run dry!
Recycle Rally
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Race through the streets to collect recyclables, but sort carefully. If your team leaves too many bins behind, useful stuff is incinerated and the whole town is in trouble.
PowerHaus:
Can you make your house more efficient before you spend all your money on energy? Invest in home improvements & appliances – and win by making choices that are better for your wallet and the world.
Global Warning
:
Players work together to clean up the world, but the temperature is rising fast. Can you slow it down before it’s game over for you AND Planet Earth?
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EarthEcho International Programs
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The
EarthEcho Youth Leadership Council (YLC)
unites young conservation leaders ages 15-22 from around the world and plays a critical role leading and developing EarthEcho’s suite of education programs, while providing insight and expertise from a youth perspective to shape EarthEcho’s work. YLC members have the opportunity to serve in an advisory capacity and gain an understanding of the operations of an international non-profit organization, help lead initiatives to expand the impact of EarthEcho’s programs, collaborate with a network of young leaders from around the world, connect to EarthEcho’s partner organizations, take part in professional development learning opportunities to support personal interests, and have the opportunity to be elected as to serve as a youth member on EarthEcho’s Board of Directors.
Click to learn more and apply.
The
EarthEcho Water Challenge Ambassadors
annually unites up to 20 young environmental leaders ages 14-22 from across the United States. This unique experience trains and equips student leaders to conduct ongoing water monitoring efforts in their communities, allows Ambassadors to collaborate with and learn from a network of young people passionate about protecting local waterways, and empowers participants to lead events to educate their communities about the importance of waterway conservation utilizing the EarthEcho Water Challenge.
Click to learn more and apply.
Applications are open through May 1, 2020.
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NEW LESSONS! Bring Scenic Conservation Education Right to Your Home
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Sign up to receive our three NEW LESSONS you can work on from the comforts of your own home!
1. Preserve Your Town's Natural Resources and Beauty
- Students focus on preserving the aesthetic beauty and designating a scenic byway in their town. Featuring a
video
from Congressman David Cicilline (RI)
2. Cleaner, Greener (Underground) Smart Grid Technology
- Students make important public health and safety decisions while undergrounding utility lines and incorporating Smart Grid Technology into a PSA.
3. Smart City/Town Planning
- Students dive into the concept of master planning and energy efficiency for their city/town.
Share your work with us @greenschoolsinc @scenicamerica #onlinelearning #virtuallearning #teachingduringcoronavirus
View our three previous lessons
here
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Attend Community Works Institute’s (CWI) Virtual Conference
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Our CWI Virtual Conference, “Teaching for Community, Without a Classroom, is now LIVE April 18, 2020 (8am-4pm Pacific Time)
What happens to Place Based Learning when we are sequestered? How do we share the stories that provide understanding of ourselves and our communities? Join us in bringing community, connection and deeper meaning to the virtual classroom (and beyond). We are harnessing this unprecedented opportunity of crisis and isolation and transforming it into an opportunity to strengthen and restore ourselves, our students, and our communities.
Click to learn more and register. Space is limited!
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Earth Day Network Events
Earth Day 2020 Boston
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"You Are Eating Plastic!" Free E-Book
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Thank you to Maria Simon, Founder of
ECO Heroes Kids and author
for offering up her e-book, "You Are Eating Plastic!", to all of our members for FREE.
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UNH
Virtual
Sustainability Tour
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Missed the first UNH Virtual Sustainability Tour? No worries, watch the recording
here
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National Energy Education Department (NEED) Curriculum
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Blueprint for School Energy Teams
- A tool for schools seeking to lower energy consumption through the adoption of school energy policies and the formation of a student energy team.
School Energy Survey
- Students investigate all aspects of their school’s energy consumption by conducting a comprehensive energy audit and developing an energy conservation plan to implement.
Plug Loads
- This unit guides students through an in-depth investigation of electricity consumption by appliances and machines in their school building. Students gather data and calculate energy use and economic and environmental costs over time, and determine ways to reduce consumption.
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Compass School Virtual Learning Model for Elementary Schools
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T
he Compass School is bringing it's full mission of social responsibility and environmental sustainability online by creating a virtual learning model for elementary schools.
Head over to their
website
and check out what’s available now. Then, sign up to be a temporary member of The Compass School Community during this public health emergency to receive updates on their online curriculum.
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