Environmental groups and resources serving K-12 schools

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This article covers information about groups and environmental resources (as provided by the government, its agencies, and existing or proposed laws) serving the K-12 schools in the United States and internationally. The entries in this article are for organizations with a wide coverage that serves at least one country (in the US) or similar territories (outside the US).

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In 2008, many environmental groups existed, but they tended to overlap and duplicate efforts. The information here does not currently attempt to reconcile this issue, but, presents the information provided, when available, by each of the organizations described.

Below are listed groups that are organized formally in alphabetical order.

Algalita Marine Research Foundation

The Algalita Marine Research Foundation is dedicated to the protection of marine and watershed environments through research, education and recovery.

In accordance with their mission statement, the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF) is only involved in it

1. Protection of the marine environment and watersheds, through investigative research on the impact of marine plastic pollution;
2. Providing authoritative educational findings to the public, private, and scientific communities.

The purpose of education Algalita Marine Research Foundation is fulfilled through our K-12 schools (including curriculum and/or DVD that is set to the California science standards), through public outreach, and through our unique educational literature. They make presentations at local, state, federal and international levels on topics of marine waste and marine health. They have also created a series of videos intended to inform the public about marine pollution.

• Plastic Program Is Forever
• Watershed Wonders school outreach

The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE)

The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) aims to inspire, educate and empower students in the fight against global warming because they believe that young adults can have a substantial and short-term positive impact on the global climate crisis. Through an age-appropriate and compelling presentation, Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) intends to deepen the understanding of climate change among our next generation of leaders. Their main goal is to equip students with the knowledge and tools they need to deal with global warming challenging the face of our planet. ACE teaches the latest and accurate climate science so students will understand the global warming crisis, and take the initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a more knowledgeable lifestyle choice. ACE aims to empower students to share this knowledge by building awareness among their family and friends and their wider community. ACE will provide an exciting opportunity for young people and schools to take action by providing grants and scholarships to those who do so.

Captain Planet Foundation

Captain Planet Foundation is a non-profit organization that initially serves as a corporate foundation associated with cartoon performances, Planet Captain and Planeteers. The mission of the organization is to provide the next generation of the environment an active understanding and love for the natural world in which they live. Organizations pursue this mission primarily through collaboration with educators (preK-12), both in formal and informal settings, to provide training, materials and grants to support youth-oriented and solution-oriented projects.

Ecoliteration Center

The Center for Ecoliteration is a non-profit organization dedicated to education for sustainable living. It seeks to advance schools for sustainability by inspiring and supporting K-12 educators, parents, and other members of the school community who help young people gain the knowledge, skills and values ​​essential to sustainable living. Through Smart by Nature: the Schooling for Sustainability initiative, it offers both theoretical framework and practical resources to incorporate direct learning in the natural world with curricular innovation in K-12 education.

Center for Green School

The Green School Center's Green Schools Council (USGBC) helps to engage educators in creating an ongoing learning environment for their students and apply solid research to inform leadership - from school councils to college presidents - about the benefits of healthy, high-performing schools. They work with state and local governments to develop intelligent and practical policies, and they provide training and resources that benefit those most in need - K-12 schools serve low-income families, resource-poor institutions and community colleges. The center serves to hold conversations with key decision makers, collaborate with leading education and environmental associations and create tools and resources that help make green schools possible.

Earth Class

Earth Class as launched by the National Environmental Education Foundation in partnership with The Weather Channel is a program designed to enhance and strengthen environmental education in the national high school classroom. Utilizing the expertise and passion of teachers and students across the country, Earth Class will enrich the secondary school curriculum by encouraging the entry of environmental education into all high school subjects - from biology to the arts - and making it easier for teachers to access best practices online. The main objective of the program is to increase the literacy of the environment of high school students and to provide a model for incorporating environmental education in the high school classroom via the Web.

Climate Change Education

Climate Change Education provides a portal website dedicated to global warming education, climate change education, science, and solutions for teachers, students, children, families, educators, everyone.

Cloud Institute

Cloud Institute is a highly respected organization that offers a variety of products and services to help the public and independent schools, school systems, and communities they teach and learn for a sustainable future. All services must be purchased.

Collaborative for High Performing School

Collaborative for High Performing Schools, whose mission is to facilitate high-performance school design, construction, and operation: an environment that is not only energy-efficient and resourceful, but also healthy, comfortable, well-lit and contains facilities for quality education..

Cooling the Earth (CETI)

Cool the Earth (CETI) is a program that educates K-8 students and their families about global warming and encourages them to take simple actions to reduce their carbon emissions. The program runs in 100 schools in Northern California. The mission of Cool the Earth Inc. is to educate children and their families about climate change and motivate them to take simple and measurable energy conservation measures that reduce their carbon footprint. CTE has a training program and tracking system on the web, making their programs replicable across the country.

The 4-6 month program was launched with a school assembly featuring age-appropriate games, which educate children about global warming and empower them to take action. Students then return home with a coupon book that contains energy saving measures. Coupons highlight the economic and environmental benefits of each action. To ensure that environmental considerations become an integral part of the daily life of our participants, families and children are committed to taking action throughout the year. Finally the school displays a highly visible tracking banner to illustrate to the school community that collectively their actions have a significant impact on climate change.

Cool the Earth measures the effectiveness of climate change programs and tracks the number of energy-saving actions taken by participants and pounds of carbon stored in each school through the Cool the Earth website. It is estimated that within 3 months of running the program every school population running Cool the Earth takes an average of 550 new energy-saving measures to reduce their footprint, reducing their carbon emissions by 350,000 pounds per year.

Cool the Earth uses child-driven models to encourage energy conservation. This model, in which the family acts together for fear of the dangers of global warming, has recently been referred to as an effective method for creating a positive environmental change by the Climate Change Research Research Center at George Mason University.

CTEI has partnered with Bay Area Air District, Girl Scouts of Northern California (2008), PG & E (2008), Marin Community Foundation, Marin Conservation Corps, Strategic Energy Innovation, Marin Municipal Water District, School Safe Route (2008) and Climate Project.

Drizzle Community Environment

The Environmental Community Drizzle, established in 2014, provides environmental education initiatives, campaigns, and programs for youth and young adults through digital media. The organization is based in Vancouver, Canada. The main organizational initiative is the Youth Environment Challenge that encourages youth from around the world to commit to completing five eco-friendly actions of different sizes over the course of a year.

EarthTeam

EarthTeam has a stated mission to create a new generation of environmental leaders by introducing into the classroom and community environment experiences that are so active and engaging that they inspire dedication to a healthy environment. With a focus in the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 2,000 students in about 60 schools are involved in the EarthTeam program during 2006-2007.

Eco-Schools

Eco-Schools, affiliated with the Environmental Education Foundation (FEE) is a program for environmental management and certification, and continuing school development for schools. Its holistic, participatory approach, and combination of learning and action make it an ideal way for schools to embark on a meaningful path to improve their school and local communities, and to influence the lives of young people, school staff, and others. family, local government, NGOs, etc. At the end of the school year 2004/2005, there were approximately 14,000 participating schools, of which more than 4,000 were award winners of Green Flag. The Green Flag Eco-Schools, awarded to high-achieving schools in their programs, is a recognized and respected environmental label for education and environmental performance.

In 2008, Eco-Schools were represented in the United States by the National Wildlife Federation, and a US-based program called Eco-Schools USA ([4]). In 2012, there are 53 countries participating in international Eco-School programs (including, in England, England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland) in Europe, Africa, South America, Oceania and Asia.

Energy Energy Action Coalition

The Energy Action Coalition is a project of 48 leading youth and environmental organizations throughout the US and Canada. This challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college and high schools in Canada and the US to win 100% Clean Energy policy in their schools. This challenge fosters a broad-generation movement to halt global warming, reducing pollution from our high schools and colleges to zero and leading our communities toward a clean energy future. Energy Action has run several campaigns to achieve this goal. In addition they are planning the first national youth climate change conference, Power Shift '07 at the University of Maryland, College Park and at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Energy Action is currently planning a second national youth summit, Power Shift '09 which will take place from February 27 to March 2, 2009 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

Energy Efficient School Initiative (EESI)

The Energy Efficient Schools Initiative (EESI)/was approved by the Tennessee General Assembly in 2008 to provide funding for K-12 schools for energy efficiency projects. The initiative has $ 90 Million available to fund energy efficiency at K-12 schools in Tennessee. Financial Incentives EESI has both grants and low interest loans available to offset the cost of energy efficiency projects. The school district installed high-efficiency equipment can qualify up to $ 22 per student in grants and $ 66 per student in loans. Although most incentives are pre-qualified, special incentives are also available for projects "out of the box". A large amount of information and technical assistance is available to help schools through energy saving complexity. In addition to technical information, more technical assistance such as energy audits and energy benchmarks are available at no cost to schools.

EnergySmart Schools Program

The EnergySmart Schools program is a US Department of Energy program through which the department "seeks to catalyze significant improvements in energy efficiency in K-12 schools in the country at a time of great opportunity."

Energy Energy Star for K-12 School Districts

Energy Star for K-12 School Districts is a US Environmental Protection Agency program that provides tools and resources for K-12 school districts to apply Energy Star technology.

Facing the Future

Facing the Future is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and motivating today's students to become the guardians of tomorrow's world in charge. The organization develops and provides direct, standards-based learning, student textbooks, curriculum units, and professional development opportunities for educators promoting critical thinking on global issues, sustainability and positive solutions. The Future Facing Curriculum is being used in all 50 US states and over 60 countries by teachers and students in K-12 classes, in undergraduate and graduate classes, and in various subject areas.

Free curriculum downloads are available on their site for K-12 grades.

Focus on Nations

The Nation for K-12 Focus is a national education initiative on global warming solutions for America that will peak on January 31, 2008 at a symposium held simultaneously at over a thousand colleges, universities, K-12 schools and other institutions. Focus the Nation provides a high school model on their website.

Unblock the Planet!

Free the Planet! has an stated mission to expand and strengthen the student's environmental movement, provide resources for student activists, and work with students to win campaigns for strong environmental protection.

Among the activities of Free the Planet! are as follows:

• Expand the students' environmental movement by recruiting environmentally-minded students to take action, engaging student activists with each other and larger environmental movements, and providing new opportunities and ideas for activists.
• Provide resources for student activists through LEAD Project Training, Advising Activist Programs, How to Unleash Planet!: Training and Briefing for Environmental Measures, action guides, and other materials.
• Work with students to win campaigns for strong environmental protection by giving them resources to work on national joint campaigns and guidelines for running campaigns on an effective campus.

On their website, the latest achievements and bulletins were recorded in 2004, and no membership numbers were provided online.

Global Green USA

Green School USA Green School Program has been working for more than 10 years to build and improve schools to be healthier and more energy efficient. Through their projects and initiatives, they have helped more than 55,000 students and teachers grow and save the school thousands of dollars.

Go-Green Initiative

The Go-Green Initiative is a simple and comprehensive program designed to create a culture of environmental responsibility in campus schools across the country. Established in 2002, the Go Green Initiative brings together parents, students, teachers and school administrators in an effort to make real and lasting changes in their campus community that will protect children and the environment for years to come. There is no membership number listed on their website, but they claim that schools in 46 states and the District of Columbia, Africa, Asia, Canada, and Europe have adopted the Go Green Initiative.

Green School Buildings

The Green School Buildings, which is part of the US Green Building Council, is the place to start making changes in your community. Here, you can:

• Learn what makes green schools better for students
• Learn about local, state, and federal initiatives to promote and support green schools
• Learn about LEED, the national benchmark for high performing schools
• Find videos, research, case studies, and other resources
• Read the latest green school news
• Engage

Green School

Green School is based in Berkeley, California. The website has lots of resources for school districts starting from a green/sustainable road, such as: Checklist for Getting Started, Tips for Parents and Students, Teaching, 7 Steps to Green School, and Sustainability Curriculum.

Green School Alliance (GSA)

Green Schools Alliance (GSA) is a non-profit organization created by schools for schools, connecting schools to resources and measurement and reporting tools to meet their energy and sustainability goals, raise environmental awareness, and empower students, faculty, and staff. This school network raises concerns about climate change and the environment into collective action to protect our common future.

Alliance of public, private, and independent schools K-12, Green School Alliance helps to set goals, measure progress and celebrate success. GSA is trying to remove barriers for all schools to participate. Membership in the Green School Alliance is FREE, based solely on environmental leadership commitments:

• A school that joins GSA at the Climate Advisor level promises to calculate their school's carbon footprint by setting energy and carbon emissions baselines, and achieving carbon reductions over time.
• Some schools choose to join the Climate Champion level, promising to reduce their school's carbon footprint by at least 30% within 5 years, and achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2020.

In the first 18 months, GSA grew to cover nearly 2,000 schools in 37 US states and 10 countries. By 2015, the alliance has more than 8,000 member schools in 41 US states and 53 countries. Consisting of students, administrators, faculty, facility managers, business officials and parents, GSA makes use of the experience, expertise, and passion of the school to build a green community across the border. This network helps schools to maximize the environmental benefits to the greatest number.

GSA provides an opportunity menu that involves all members of the school community to work together to ensure a safe and healthy environment for future generations through the adoption of today's sustainable and energy savvy solutions. The GSA program, created by schools, integrates education and action. Programs include: Green School Climate Commitment; Green Cup Challenge; Climate Congress and Student Conservation (Sc3); Green School Resources Exhibition; curriculum sources; and much more.

In 2009, the Green School Alliance partnered with the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) to launch the Climate and Student Conservation Congress, Sc3, to empower students with the skills, knowledge, and tools necessary to plant the seeds of change in their schools and communities. Fellows learn and discuss environmental, social and economic interconnections and develop individual and collective action plans to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Participants in Sc3 learn the practical skills needed to establish sustainable and intelligent energy goals and measure progress in their school, home, or community. Fellows continue to connect with their cohorts, coordinators and experts on an ongoing basis for the year after Congress to implement their Personal Action Plan. Previous speakers included Sylvia Earle, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Bill McKibben (Founder 350.org), Ian Cheney (King Corn Director), and Rob Watson (Founder of LEED).

Caucus Green School

Green Schools Caucus is a caucus of the bipartisan United States State Representative Council created to promote green building practices in schools.

Green Schools Fellowship

The Green Schools Fellowship was launched by the US Green Building Council in 2010 and will begin placing full-time sustainability officers in school districts across the country by July 2011. The Green Schools Fellowship is an effort to effectively and quickly change the environment in which children in the US learn.

Green Schools Initiative

The Green Schools Initiative was founded by parents-environmentalists who were surprised by how unfriendly their children's schools were and were mobilized to improve the environmental health and sustainability of school ecology in the US. They believe it is important to protect the health of children - in schools and in the world outside school - and they work to catalyze and support "green" actions by children, teachers, parents and policymakers to:

• remove poison
• use resources on an ongoing basis
• create green space and buildings
• serves healthy meals, and teaches management

They work to utilize the school sector to change the school environment - and markets that supply schools - to improve health and sustainability. Using the Precautionary Principle as their policy foundation, they suggest that school boards and state policymakers develop comprehensive action plans and build local capacity to implement these plans. They started their efforts with schools throughout California; they collaborate with and support organizations and individuals in other countries and nationally.

Green Teacher

Green Teacher is a non-profit organization that publishes resources to help educators, both inside and outside of school, to promote global awareness and the environment among young people from elementary to high school. The main activity of the organization is the publication of Green Teacher, a quarterly magazine full of educational ideas from successful "green" educators. Each Master Green issue offers a perspective on the role of education in creating a sustainable future, practical cross-curricular activities for different levels of the class, and a review of the latest teaching resources.

Green Youth Alliance

Green Youth Alliance is an environmental services leadership organization with the following objectives:

• Awareness-raising: Develop student leaders who can raise awareness about the potentially disastrous effects of human-caused climate change
• Action: Create opportunities for students to actively engage in projects that will help reduce our carbon footprint in schools, homes, and communities.
• Political Engagement: Encourage students to participate in the political process to monitor and interact with our political representatives to ensure that eco-friendly political policies have been adopted.
• Leadership: Maintain the next generation of environmental leaders by encouraging students to develop their leadership abilities.

Growing Green School

Growing Greener Schools, MPC initiative, is a PBS television show and movement, empowering students, teachers, and parents to incorporate green ideas into their physical school buildings and classroom curriculum, paving the way for a sustainable future. Greener and healthier schools have a broad positive impact on students' attitudes and classes, on local communities, and the country as a whole. The benefits of the green school movement include preserving valuable resources like water and energy, saving money, improving health and nutrition, reducing our carbon footprint, and preparing students for green jobs and environmental leadership. Available from their website is Growing Greener Schools: A Handbook & amp; Curriculum Guide.

Healthy School Campaign

The Healthy School Campaign is 501 (c) (3), an independent non-profit organization, and a leading authority in a healthy school environment. With two major program areas, environmental health and nutritional health, HSC works to promote policies and practices that enable all students, teachers and staff to learn and work in a healthy school environment. HSC publishes Quick & amp; The Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools has been distributed to over 90,000 schools across the US to help schools adopt a green cleaning program. Quick & amp; The Easy Guide to School Health is also a publication to help schools implement health policy. Current key efforts include promoting non-toxic cleaning programs, supporting the delivery of the Child Nutrition Act that supports health and engaging school stakeholders to be supporters to improve school health environments. The annual HSC High School culinary competition, Cooking Up Change, is an annual event that highlights the creativity of students in making healthy school lunches, and platforms to discuss the importance of investing in school meals with our political leaders.

Healthy School Network

The Healthy Schools Network is a 501 (c) (3) national environmental health organization that conducts research, information, education, coalition building, and advocacy to ensure that every child has a clean, healthy learning environment and is in good repair. Founded in 1995, they have documented and publicized school environmental issues; formed and won a new education, health, and environmental policy; cultivating dozens of local and state policy groups; win systematic federal and state reforms; and help thousands of parents and schools create healthier classrooms and buildings through the EPA's award-winning Healthy Eating Schools for Healthy Children (EPA Information and Referral Service). Key efforts include: building platforms and forums for the school environment through the Collaborative Coalition for Healthy Schools they founded and assembled with over 400 local, state, and national partners; leading a National Healthy School Day; offering regular assistance through the publications and references of the Clearinghouse; and refine their New York program model. Throughout, they focus on: 1) Design/Construction of High Performance Schools consistent with the needs of children for a healthy environment; 2) Greening Existing Schools; and 3) Community Health Environment for Children disproportionately affected by environmental exposures.

Children F.A.C.E.

Also known as Kids for A Clean Environment, Kids F.A.C.E. have a stated mission to provide information on environmental issues to children, to encourage and facilitate youth involvement with effective environmental measures, and to recognize efforts that produce natural improvements. In January 2008, they claimed to have more than 2,000 club branches in fifteen countries and more than 300,000 individual members.

Uncomfortable Youth

Unpleasant youth is a network of teenagers across America who care about our future. They feel that it is time to act in the face of climate change. They believe that, given the urgency of this extraordinary problem, they can no longer depend on others to take responsibility for our behalf.

International Climate Champ

International Climate Champs, is based on a successful UK program run by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in 2006. The project gives youth voice, enhances positive media coverage and helps individuals, schools, communities and many others cope with change climate. These champions are young school-aged children, selected to help spread the word about climate change and engage others. They work with partners in the country, initially G8 5 (Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, UK, USA) (in 2008), to help organize Climate Champion initiatives. Other countries will follow later. Each country involved chooses three people to become International Climate Winners. Champions are 16-18 years old.

Jane Goodall & amp; Take a photo

Jane Goodall's Roots & amp; Tunas is a youth guided action and learning program from Jane Goodall Institute. This program builds on Dr.'s legacy and vision. Jane Goodall to put the power and responsibility to create community-based solutions to great challenges at the hands of young people. Through this program, youth mapped out their communities to identify specific challenges facing their environment. From there, they prioritize problems, develop plans for solutions, and take action.

LEED for School

LEED for Schools is provided by the US Green Building Council. LEED for Schools Rating System recognizes the unique nature of the design and construction of K-12 schools. Based on LEED for the New Construction ranking system, it addresses issues such as classroom acoustics, master planning, fungal prevention and environmental location assessments. Lexus Eco Challenge

The Lexus Eco Challenge was developed to educate students about the environment and inspire them to create a better world. Together with Scholastic Corporation, Lexus designed this national competition to challenge high and high school students to create and implement environmental programs in their communities.

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Schools Continue to register

The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) The Sustainable Schools listserve is available to give all practitioners matters related to the sustainability of a forum to ask questions and ask for feedback and feedback from others working on these issues in schools. independent schools.

National Science Education Center (NCSE)

The National Science Education Center (NCSE) is a nonprofit organization, a membership that provides information and resources for schools, parents. and concerned citizens work to keep evolution and climate science in general school science education. They educate the press and the public about the scientific and educational aspects of controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution and climate change, and provide the necessary information and advice to defend good science education at the local, state, and national levels. Their 4500 members are scientists, teachers, pastors, and citizens with diverse religious and political affiliations.

National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities

The National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities provide information about planning, designing, financing, construction, repair, and maintenance of schools that are safe, healthy, and high performance. It is funded by the US Department of Education.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Green Squad

The Green Squad The Natural Resources Defense Council teaches children about the relationship between their school and environmental and health issues. The site is designed primarily for students in grades five to eight, but also offers information for younger and older students as well as parents and teachers. The Green Squad is made possible through the support of Citigroup Foundation and The F.A.O. Schwarz Family Foundation. The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national environmental group with more than 500,000 members, and the Healthy School Network, an organization working to protect the environmental health of children in schools.

No Impact Man

The No Impact Man website has a curriculum to help middle and high school students explore the impact of their daily behavior on their environment, their health, and their well-being. It also challenges students to think about how systems in our society today influence our lifestyle choices in ways that are often not good for the environment. Finally, it guides students to take action both individually and with others to bring about positive change.

North American Association for Environmental Education

The North American Association for Environmental Education promotes excellence in environmental education and serves environmental educators for the purpose of reaching environmental literacy for present and future generations to benefit from a safer and healthier environment and better quality of life. The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) is a network of professionals, students and volunteers working in the field of environmental education throughout North America and in over 55 countries worldwide. Since 1971, the association has been promoting environmental education and supporting the work of environmental educators. There are many environmental interest groups, and many organizations are dedicated to improving education. NAAEE uniquely combines and integrates these two perspectives, and takes a cooperative, non-confrontational, and scientifically balanced approach to promoting education on environmental issues.

Outside Adventure Hostels, Hostelling International USA

http://www.hosteladventures.org Each year more than 1,600 adults and teens encounter wildlife, tidal pools, native plants and sky filled stars during night trips based in HI Marin Headlands, HI Point Reyes, and HI Point Montara Lighthouse hostel. Located in State and National Parks on the California coast, this hostel provides direct access to a variety of unique habitats and opportunities for hands-on education. By engaging participants in the exploration of our natural environment, each hostel location becomes a large classroom, where the hiking path leads to the discovery of ecological concepts, sensory awareness, and a more lively sense of place and self. Group leaders and travel organizers can choose from several customizable programs to fit their half day, full day, or night schedule.

Project BudBurst

Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for citizen scientists designed to engage communities in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of flowering and tree flowering, and this project provides resources and opportunities for K-12 teachers and students. The participants of BudBurst carefully observed phenological events such as first buds, first leaf, first flower, and seed or fruit dispersal of the diversity of tree and flower species, including weeds and ornamental plants. Citizen observations and records are reported to the BudBurst database. Thousands of citizen scientists participated in the BudBurst prime pilot project in 2007 and as a result useful data were collected in a consistent manner across the country. Scientists can use this data to study the responses of individual plant species to climate variations locally, regionally and nationally, and to detect the long-term effects of climate change by comparing with historical data. The enthusiastic response and strong participation in the 2007 pilot effort made it clear that there was enough interest from the American public to expand the BudBurst Project in 2008! The BudBurst project was moved from UCAR to NEON in 2011.

Protect Our Winter

Protect Our Winters is a non-profit organization that serves as the collective voice of the winter sports industry on climate change. They were founded in 2007 by pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones after he saw firsthand the effects of climate change on snow packs in the mountains. Their educational program is called Hot Planet Cool Athletes, which brings professional winter sports athletes to schools to teach children about climate change and why their voices matter. Because of this program, nearly 30,000 children have been able to hear their role models (consisting of Olympic medalists and X-Games Athletes) talking about why climate change is important to them. Protect Our Winters has also set up a grant program called Grant Powder that allows children to receive up to $ 5,000 to be used for their chosen projects that help their community or school become Earth-friendly.

Second Nature

The Second Nature focuses on colleges and universities, but partners and support groups work with K-12 schools in various ways.

Sierra Student Coalition

Sierra Student Coalition is a vast network of high school students and students from across the country working to protect the environment. They have over 250 affiliate groups based in schools across the country (though more than 100 contacts are listed on the website as of January 2008). SSC is a branch of Sierra Club students, the largest and oldest grassroots environmental organization in the country. Like the Sierra Club, SSC is run by volunteers working on national and local campaigns that promote smart energy solutions and protect the environment. They develop environmental leaders through their award winning grassroots training program and work to maximize their campus-based effectiveness through the creation and maintenance of national and senior high schools and university students. The small staff supported the work of the Sierra Coalition volunteers' volunteering activities.

Sierra Youth Coalition

The Sierra Youth Coalition, in their respective program areas, strives to achieve the following objectives:

• Engage: strengthen youth in Canada to become an active member of their community;
• Educate: create a broad understanding that all things are connected;
• Changes: challenge an unjust and unsustainable system using a solution-based approach; and to
• Asking Seven Generations: ensuring that next-generation voices are clearly heard by decision makers
• Imagined as a place to learn and grow, SYC aims to provide volunteers and employees with satisfying and meaningful work. This is achieved through a non-hierarchical and consensus-based decision-making model that allows equal access to information and a fair distribution of responsibility.

The Future of Intelligent Energy

The Future of Intelligent Energy (http://www.asmartenergyfuture.com), the first comprehensive curriculum-based program for students to learn about how technology transforms energy future and is a new curriculum designed to educate students on how smart the grid will affect their lives. The Future of Intelligent Energy is made possible by Silver Spring Networks, Inc. and its curriculum partners, Education Development Center (http://www.edc.org), Inc., an international non-profit organization focused on education and healthcare.

Student Environmental Action Coalition

The Student Action Coalition Student is a grassroots coalition of student groups and neighborhood youths working together to protect our planet and our future. Through this concerted effort, thousands of youth have translated their concerns into action by sharing resources, building coalitions, and challenging limited mainstream definitions of environmental issues. Since 1988, through campaigns, conferences, and a lot of hard work, SEAC has grown to hundreds of junior high schools, high schools, and community groups throughout the United States and Canada.

Sustainable School Project

The Project Sustainable School includes many resources on their website including for curriculum such as the Great Ideas, Standards, and Reflections.

Teen Change the Green

Turning Green Youth, or TTG, is a student-led movement devoted to education and advocacy around environmentally responsible and socially responsible choices for individuals, schools and communities. Just started in 2012: Kids Play Green - Starting a Chapter.

Teen Change the Green School

Teen Turning Green Schools provides tool kits and case studies.

The US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development

The US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development consists of individuals, organizations and institutions in the United States dedicated to education for sustainable development (ESD). K-12 and Teacher Education Sector Teams of the US Partnership include experienced educators who helped guide the development of a national ESD network of K-12 formal educators involved in sustainability-related education, and who share the goals of preparing students to be notified to participants in sustainable community development. The intent of K-12 and Teacher Education Sector is to focus on promoting ESD and its network as a whole, not to provide ESD services directly. The website has a teaching resource.

Zero Footprint Foundation

The Zero Footprint Foundation challenge encourages students worldwide to take climate change into their own hands by competing to reduce the environmental impact of their school.

Maps Environmental groups and resources serving K-12 schools

Groups focusing on specific areas of interests

• The Agriculture-School Organization is at the national, state and local levels, and, in general, they help develop and implement programs through schools that buy and display local production, process fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables, eggs , honey, meat, and beans on their menu.
• The green fundraising program, like Tree for Change, allows school groups to raise funds while helping the planet. These programs teach students about forest fires, forest restoration, team building and responsibility.

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References

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External links

• Greening America's Schools: Costs and Benefits, October 1996, is a report sponsored by the following:
  • The American Teachers Federation
  • The American Institute of Architects
  • The American Lung Association
  • The Federation of American Scientists
  • US. Green Building Council

and is meant to answer the basic question: How much is the cost of environmentally friendly schools, and is the school greening cost effective?

• Neutral School Network Program, State of California
• Neutral Networks: Electricity Independence for California Schools and Community Colleges (Related articles: California Offers Grid Schools to Get Out of Grid (California State & Consumer Services Agency, 2008))
• Student environment group as stated in the Open Directory Project (ODP)

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