Sustainable Schools

Good Links for Environmental, Sustainable Schools
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Do you have a link to an interesting site or article that may be of interest to this group? Please post it here with a brief summary!

Started by Demetri Orlando. Last reply by Matt Montagne Apr 1.

Financial Sustainability
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Interesting that the sustainability conversation here has not turned to financial sustainability in independent schools. Although independent schools risk becoming culturally irrelevant and general... Continue

Started by Mike Vachow. Last reply by Matt Montagne Mar 28.

Could you help me?

Hello, everybody! My name is Emma and I’m a student in the eighth grade. As part of my environmental science class, I am doing a series of podcasts based on certain environmental issues. My first t... Continue

Started by Emma C. Jan 16

Will the 'green' roof help revolutionize the society we live in today?
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I read a article about green roofs and me and a friend were talking about how that could really help the world we live in today. Say we were able to grow our own produce on our roofs, we could redu... Continue

Started by Sara. Last reply by Emma C. Jan 16.

Environmental Rountable Meeting

We had a nice conference call amongst seven schools on December 13th to share issues of sustainability at our schools. More the student scribe notes from the call, visit the wiki that we created fo... Continue

Started by Matt Montagne Dec. 19, 2007

Global Weirding
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Hunter Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute, calls it weirding instead of warming. Thomas Friedmand writes about The People We Have Been Waiting For in a 12/3 NY Times article. In The Most Terri... Continue

Tagged: warming, catastrophe, global, environment

Started by Demetri Orlando. Last reply by Demetri Orlando Dec. 17, 2007.

Focus the Nation
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Newark Academy is in the final stages of preparing for our paticipation on January 31st, 2008, in the nationwide teach-in called Focus the Nation (www.focusthenation.org). FTN hopes to influence na... Continue

Started by Sam Huber. Last reply by Brianna Barkus Dec. 7, 2007.

Environmental Roundtable Meeting via Skype
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Is anyone willing to have a little environmental round table via skype on December 13th at 2:30 CST?? We'll have two teachers and 9 students on our end for the conversation. For those of you who ha... Continue

Started by Matt Montagne. Last reply by Matt Montagne Dec. 7, 2007.

"China's ewaste nightmare worsening"
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Sobering article here and it begs a little questioning and reflection... I've long been interested in educational technology and I've long been interested in the environment...I love nature and I ... Continue

Started by Matt Montagne. Last reply by Matt Montagne Nov. 27, 2007.

Welcome Students!

We would like to welcome the many students who recently joined the "Sustainable Schools" group at this Ning community. We look forward to your contributions to this online forum/group. Again, we w... Continue

Started by Matt Montagne Nov. 27, 2007

NYC Green Schools Alliance

Over 150 schools were represented at the most recent meeting of the Green Schools Alliance held at Allen-Stevenson on Oct. 11. The site is www.greenschoolsalliance.org and the contact is Harris Ste... Continue

Started by Jim Burger Nov. 19, 2007

NYC Green Schools Alliance

Over 150 schools were represented at the most recent meeting of the Green Schools Alliance held at Allen-Stevenson on Oct. 11. The site is www.greenschoolsalliance.org and the contact is Harris Ste... Continue

Started by Jim Burger Nov. 19, 2007

Welcome to the Sustainable Schools Group!

Hopefully this serves as a nice little discussion group centering around some of these ideas. It would be great if we could encourage some plant managers/directors and students to get involved in ... Continue

Tagged: composting, recycling, earthday, schoolgarden

Started by Matt Montagne Nov. 18, 2007