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Meg Morris is one of the original Board of Directors for the Go Green Initiative, but her day job is Vice President of Material Management and Community Affairs for Covanta. In this video clip, she is featured in conjunction with an innovative program called, “Fishing for Energy.” Fishermen are being asked to unload abandoned crab…

The Go Green Initiative works hard to provide students with opportunities to learn about how the systems in their communities work. We help them learn about their local energy, water, waste and food systems. One of our recent endeavors provided some teenagers with the opportunity to get “up close and personal” with wind and energy-from-waste technology,…

The 2015 Green California Schools Summit and Community Colleges Summit will take place at the Pasadena Convention Center on October 29-30. The Summit is the largest annual event focused on green programs in the nation’s largest K-12 system and higher education systems. With the theme “Achieving the Benefits of High Performance Schools,” the Summit will…

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…

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…

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…

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I recently had the good fortune to talk with Will Rosenzweig about the need for food innovation in this country. He is the Dean of the world’s first Food Business School (FBS), just launched by the Culinary Institute of America. FBS is a center for executive a graduate education whose mission is to enable and empower entrepreneurial…

Why is this teenage girl standing in a huge pile of stinking trash? She’s making a movie about renewable energy – check it out! http://youtu.be/iBTSq2eWWFc

In honor of World Food Day, I’m excited to share this interview with Marion Nestle, one of the nation’s most prominent voices on the political forces that drive our food choices, who has authored a new book, Eat Drink Vote – An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics. She teamed up with The Cartoonist Group (more…

GGI Board Member “Fishing for Energy”

Letting Teens See Renewable Energy in Action

Green CA Schools and Community Colleges Summit & Expo

Teacher Resource on Renewable Energy

Environmental Education and the Pope’s Encyclical

Energy Express…all aboard!

Happy Earth Day!

Dean of World’s 1st Food Business School Talks Food Innovation & Sustainability

Why is this teenager standing in trash?

EAT. DRINK. VOTE. Food Politics in America

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