"Pandemic Protocol: Build Partnerships to Keep Green Schools Green, Students Safe"
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"In the old days — like, six months ago — the way schools worked was pretty simple: Teachers taught, administrators administered, and facility managers managed facilities. But as schools reopen later this summer and fall, the coronavirus pandemic has created a need for these different professions to collaborate in new and unprecedented ways for the health and safety of their students...
And it’ll be more important than ever to be judicious in selecting cleaning materials. 'It is critical to keep in mind that many people have allergies, asthma, and sensitivities to a variety of disinfectants and cleaning products, especially those that have added fragrances,. says Robin Buchanan,Executive Director and Founder of Project Green Schools.. ." Read full article.
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Meet The 2020-2021 National Youth Council Student Leadership Team |
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Communications Officer - Diya
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National Youth Council students are green difference-makers who are invited to participate in important regional, national and world events. All students who are in grades 5-12 are eligible to take part in National Youth Council meetings. Quarterly meetings take place on a regional level with video and phone call-in opportunities for students around the country.
Join Us! Sign up here. Follow the National Youth Council students on their Instagram page.
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Project Green Schools Golf Tournament A Success |
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On Monday, August 10th, Project Green Schools held our organization’s Annual 2020 Golf Tournament and Luncheon at White Cliffs Country Club in Plymouth, MA. Golfers participated in an active day outdoors to help raise funds to support Project Green Schools’ mission of developing the next generation of environmental leaders through hands-on, project-based, solutions-based learning, community service and action for students K-12.
“While several of our signature events were cancelled or postponed this year due to COVID-19, Project Green Schools is uniquely positioned to have been able to support schools with quality environmental content and resources to help facilitate virtual learning,” said Robin Buchanan, Founder & Executive Director of Project Green Schools. “This fundraiser helps us continue supporting schools and students across the nation and globe for the upcoming school year during these unprecedented times. We are so appreciative of all the volunteers and golfers who came out to continue to support this important mission.”
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Join "Race for the Planet: Virtual Home Edition" for 2020-2021 |
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Project Green Schools is also engaging schools in our second year of “Race for the Planet” and we invite you to be part of this new way to engage students, schools and communities in climate action. Participants will compete in energy and environmental games and challenges held throughout the year focusing on energy, water, waste, and sustainability, to raise funds to support a unique project goal to Green Up Your School/Community. For example, you could host Race for the Planet during Climate Week, Earth Day/Week, Field Day, etc. Learn more and register here.
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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: 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?
STEM.org certified & winner of 31 national awards!
Get 20% off with code PGSfall20, Plus, free on our website: downloadable water conservation exercises for learning at home! Learn more and shop now!
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Exclusive to FutureBook, print your cherished memories on tree-free bamboo paper. With FutureBook Yearbooks, will will guide and support you and your staff to create beautiful, customizable, Earth Friendly books for your 2021 production. Already using water-based laminates, recycled cover board and soy-based inks, you can now chose tree-free bamboo, FSC certified or recycled paper options. With every book sold, we are proud to plant one tree.
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Design Compelling Virtual and Hybrid Instructional Content and Projects with CWI's Virtual Institutes |
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Teach for Social Justice through Experiential Learning. Bring your vision, program, and project ideas to CWI's 2020-21 VIRTUAL Institutes, our acclaimed learning and design lab. Institute workshops include inspiring learning from our Institute faculty that will support your teaching and programs, whether virtual or in person/hybrid. The Institute is the ideal opportunity for individual educators or teams to begin or advance projects and programs that are flexible for virtual and in-person/hybrid learning scenarios. Our Virtual Institutes are highly experiential, capturing the substance and alchemy of CWI professional events—without geographic limitations—allowing us to bring exciting new resources into our process.
Learn more about the FALL Virtual Institute, Nov 5-7, 2020, WINTER Virtual Institute, Feb 4-6, 2021 and others.
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"Youth To Power: Your Voice and How To Use It" |
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In Youth to Power, Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice on writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing social and traditional media to spread a message, and sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give guidance on handling backlash, keeping your mental health a priority, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of.
Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective, healthy, intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say, and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice.
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One Cat Foundation is committed to creating thriving conditions for animals, employees and the greater community, through:
- Improving conditions for captive animals, and of course, lions, worldwide
- Donating resources to protect indigenous wildlife from poaching
- Creating unique and upwardly mobile job opportunities for disadvantaged and discriminated groups
- Providing educational and trade scholarships to undereducated communities
- Building self-sustaining projects and communities in South Africa and the United States. These communities are built to optimize sustainable technology, renewable energy, communal farming, and rainwater harvest.
- Educational outdoor and virtual educational opportunities with prestigious Big Cat Sanctuaries on the East Coast
IG: @onecatfoundation
FB & LinkedIn: One Cat Foundation
Twitter: @onecatpride
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Young Voices for the Planet Free Online Resources |
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Access YVFP’s free online resources through their website, including their award-winning documentary films, featuring diverse young role models on the front lines of climate change, reducing the carbon footprint of their homes, schools and communities—while saving money and improving health. These films along with their free Civic Engagement and Democracy Curriculum (for grades 3-12) and professional development for educators, give young people hope and the tools to take action and make a difference—even though they’re still too young to vote!
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Green2Sustainable Digital Signage |
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Green2Sustainable developed a digital signage solution that will help schools return in a safe AND sustainable way. Check out this alternative that utilizes technology to display images in the classroom instead of printing excessive amounts of paper for posters and flyers.
Green2Sustainable signage is:
- Easy to use
- Easy to manage
- Easy to update
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EPA Announces NEW Indoor Air and COVID-19 Webpage |
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Join the Virtual Canoe Race! |
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Calling all educators! Save the date for our fall 2020 Virtual Canoe Race, which will run for six weeks from October 5th to November 15th 2020.
Starting on October 5th and then every Monday for six weeks, ten questions about the Delaware River Watershed and the Green Amendment movement will be posted on our canoe race website. With every correct answer, participants will see their canoes travel down the virtual Delaware River. In addition, participants may gain bonus miles each week by answering additional questions or completing activities.
The Virtual Canoe Race is a fantastic way for students and youth to learn about watershed history, geography, biology, and ecology as a team. The design of the Race encourages critical thinking, problem solving, research skills, and teamwork in order to answer the questions correctly and paddle down the River towards the prize. Additionally, the Race can easily be utilized both remotely and in-person, and only needs about an hour a week and is easy to add into an existing curriculum or build a unit around.
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Students and School Organize a Tree-Plenish Event at Your School |
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Calling all Environmental Clubs and Student Leaders to join the Tree-Plenish team to lead a tree-planting event in your community. With Tree-Plenish’s financial and logistical support, you can make your school more sustainable by planting trees in your community based on approximations of your school’s paper usage. Residents of your town will request trees and volunteers will plant them on the day of your event. For more information visit our website or fill out this interest form. |
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Calendar of Events/Days to Celebrate |
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September
- 4th: National Wildlife Day
- 21st: International Day of Peace
- 21st: Zero Emissions Day
- 22nd: World Car-free Day
- 22nd/23rd: Fall (Autumnal) Day
October
- 1st Week: Junk Mail Awareness Week
- 1st: World Vegetarian Day
- 4th: World Animal Day
- 8th: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Day
- 17th: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
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Project Green Schools |3 Village Green North #311 PMB 191, Plymouth, MA 02360 | info@projectgreenschools.org www.projectgreenschools.org
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