July 2015 – Go Green Initiative

Teacher Resource on Renewable Energy

By Jill Buck | July 13, 2015 |

Please share this information with K-12 teachers. We have created a fun, science-based 5 minute video using teen actors that explains where renewable energy comes from, how it creates electricity, and why it is beneficial to the environment. The video is appropriate for kids from kindergarten through high school, and is available to anyone with…

Energy Express…all aboard!

By Jill Buck | July 10, 2015 |

Wanna fly over the tallest dam in the U.S.?!? Hop aboard the “Energy Express!” “Energy Express” is a live action, scripted comedy for K-12 students that was shot at numerous renewable energy plants. Using teen actors and drone camera footage, viewers get to “fly over” the tallest hydroelectric dam in the U.S. and one of…

Environmental Education and the Pope’s Encyclical

By Jill Buck | July 10, 2015 |

When I founded the Go Green Initiative back in 2002, I saw myself as more of a child advocate than an environmentalist. The human health impact of pollution, and the break-neck speed at which our world is consuming finite natural resources, made me worry about the world I was leaving to my children. My motto…