The Department of Environmental Protection is accepting applications from schools, universities, intermediate units, county conservation districts, environmental education centers, businesses and incorporated nonprofit organizations—including municipalities and municipal authorities—for the 2011 Environmental Education Program grants.
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The Department of Industrial Relations’ (DIR) Division of Apprenticeship Standards is ushering in a greener future for California by incorporating environmental components into minimum training criteria for apprenticeship trades. Committees made up of equal numbers of employer and employee representatives for every building construction trade will establish green guidelines for including carpentry, construction, electrical, plumbing [...]
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Environmental Charter Schools (ECS) and Green Ambassadors Institute will elevate awareness and celebrate ten years of green education on the evening of November 6th 2010. RETHINK:GREEN is an art exhibition, organic tasting, and green award charity event hosted by featured celebrities Ed Begley Jr., Rachelle Carson Begley, Lisa Ling, Anna Getty, James Kyson Lee, MTV’s [...]
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Robinson Elementary School, the Town of Starksboro, Vermont, and AllEarth Renewables, Inc. of Williston, Vermont have partnered to install 25 AllSun Trackers® on a field adjacent to the school. Over the course of a year, the 100 kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic array is expected to produce enough electricity to provide 100% of the electricity used in [...]
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Mayor Reed has unveiled Power to Change, a plan that will guide the City of Atlanta’s sustainability efforts for the next several years. As part of the plan, Mayor Reed has set the aggressive goal of making Atlanta a top 10 city for sustainability.
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Candidates in 2010 who assume that Tea Party supporters and Independents will respond to the same messages on climate and clean energy issues appear to be mistaken, according to a major new survey of more than 1,000 Americans conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for the nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute (CSI). Further, while the [...]
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About one-quarter of America’s population spends a good part of each day inside a school building. The Green California Schools Summit, December 8-10, 2010 at the Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California, will examine what can be done to ensure these structures are healthy and efficient and prepare students for their role in a more sustainable [...]
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Huntington Beach City School District announced this week the groundbreaking for an energy efficiency and solar project, which is expected to save the district more than $15 million over the life of the project. The project is the first energy efficiency and solar project at an elementary school district in Orange County. Chevron Energy Solutions [...]
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The Savannah Branch of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) presented a LEED® Gold Certification plaque to the Marine and Coastal Science Research and Instructional Center (MCSRIC) at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography this week.
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