GreenNotes
GSNN Assembles Editorial Board, Lays Foundation for Launch of Quarterly Publication
At the Green Schools National Network (GSNN), we believe in sharing the knowledge, tools, and resources needed to make every school a green, healthy, and sustainable school. One way we have been doing this has been through our monthly, topic-driven newsletter,...
Fund for Teachers Provides Opportunities to Expand Educators’ Horizons and Impact Student Engagement
By. Carrie Pillsbury, Director of Communications for Fund for Teachers Students are inundated with “reduce, reuse, recycle” to the point that environmental education is beginning to sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher. What that teacher (and her classroom)...
How Students Get to School Matters
Every day, we make decisions about how we get from point A to point B. Sometimes those decisions are pretty straightforward. For example, if I am traveling to West Virginia for work, I will either drive or take a plane. Other times, not so much. Recently, I...
Biodiesel: America’s Most Advanced Biofuel Powers Medford Township Students to School
By. Joe Biluck, CEO of GrāMin Consulting Services, LLC “I owe you an apology.” This comment was uttered to me by a skeptical school bus driver some nineteen years ago. On November 17, 1997, Medford Township Public Schools, in partnership with the New Jersey...
Safe Routes to School Gets Students Out of Cars and Walking/Biking
By Judi Lawson Wallace, Safe Routes to School Coordinator for the Winston-Salem, North Carolina Urban Area Like other school systems across the country, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System (WSFCS) in North Carolina saw increasing numbers of obese students...
Complete Streets in Pryor Creek, Oklahoma Help Create Safe Routes to School
By. Margaux Mennesson, Marketing and Communications Manager for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership A healthy school is the heart of a healthy community, and community policies play a large role in supporting schools’ efforts to increase healthy...
Fire Up Your Feet Gets Students Moving in Colorado
By. Patricia Fryc, Colorado Fire Up Your Feet Outreach Specialist The Safe Routes to School National Partnership sponsors a program called Fire Up Your Feet for elementary and middle schools nationally. The Fire Up Your Feet program promotes physical activity...
Clean School Bus USA: Providing a Safe and Sustainable Way to School
By: Christine Koester, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency It is a common scene across the country – before the final bell rings to mark the end of the school day, parents in their cars form a line near the school...
Go Yellow, Go Green: The National School Transportation Association Supports Eco-Friendly Measures for School Buses
By. Ronna Sable Weber, Executive Director of the National School Transportation Association Each day, over 26 million students ride over 480,000 yellow buses to and from school in pursuit of their education. Ensuring that those school buses are the most...
A New Kind of Bus Afoot
By. Elise Houghton Reprinted with permission from the Green Teacher publication Teaching about Climate Change (http://greenteacher.com/books/climate-change/). Learn more about Green Teacher’s nonprofit magazine and books at www.greenteacher.com.