School Spotlight: Bishop O’Dowd High School

Posted on April 13, 2016 by In Blogs, Food, Recycling & Waste, Sustainability, Water
It’s not easy to be chosen as a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School, but Bishop O’Dowd high school in Oakland, CA is no ordinary educational institution. According to its mission statement, “Bishop O’Dowd High School seeks to develop leaders of influence who are loving, open to growth, religious, intellectually competent, and skilled leaders…

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Student Spotlight: Graphic Novel Inspires Recycling

Posted on April 12, 2016 by In Blogs, Recycling & Waste, Resources
St. Benedict’s Prep (SBP) was recently featured on 60 Minutes. SBP is an all-boys 7th-12th grade school in the inner city of Newark, NJ. The school is currently run by Alumnus Fr. Edwin Leahy, O.S.B., and has been operated by the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey since 1868. Thanks to a grant from Covanta, I have had the…

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Letting Teens See Renewable Energy in Action

Posted on November 20, 2015 by In Blogs, Energy, Recycling & Waste, Videos
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,…

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Green CA Schools and Community Colleges Summit & Expo

Posted on August 31, 2015 by In Energy, Resources
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…

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Teacher Resource on Renewable Energy

Posted on July 13, 2015 by In Blogs, Climate Change, Energy, Recycling & Waste, Resources, Videos
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…

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Environmental Education and the Pope’s Encyclical

Posted on July 10, 2015 by In Blogs, Climate Change, Podcasts, Resources, Sustainability, Water
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…

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Happy Earth Day!

Posted on April 22, 2015 by In Air Quality, Blogs, Energy, Videos
Happy Earth Day! Looking for a way to do something simple, yet substantive, to care for the planet? Save some electricity today. The majority of our electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels (mostly coal and natural gas), which emit a number of air pollutants and carbon. By using less electricity today, you can both…

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