Green Schools NYC 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009 from 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM (ET)
This event has ended. For more information, visit the Green Schools Alliance website at www.greenschoolsalliance.org
THANK YOU!
A huge shoutout to all of the volunteers (a huge group from Horace Mann especially), schools, companies, organizations, parents, teachers, students, administrators, and community members who showed up in full force to make this event so special. Tell us what you thought in the post-event survey here.
KEYNOTE VIDEO
OVERVIEW
The Green Schools Alliance (GSA) and Collegiate School will host the first city-wide Green Schools Conference on April 18, 2009. Students, parents, faculty, and administrators from over 100 Public and Independent Schools will assemble together with common resolve to make their schools leaders in environmental sustainability.
SPREAD THE WORD!
Invite friends, colleagues, and students from your school and other schools here.
PROGRAM
10AM-11:30AM AMC/LOEWS 84TH STREET 11AM-12PM WEST END COLLEGIATE CHURCH WEST END COLLEGIATE CHURCH 1PM-2PM COLLEGIATE SCHOOL WORKSHOP SESSION A RESOURCE FAIR CONTINUES WORKSHOP SESSION B RESOURCE FAIR CONTINUES COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
TIME
DESCRIPTION
LOCATION
EARTH SCREENING
CHECK-IN
12PM-1PM
KEYNOTE
RESOURCE FAIR
2PM-3PM
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
3PM-4PM
EARTH SCREENING
To kick off the day, join us for a special advance screening of Disneynature's first film, EARTH, only in theatres starting Earth Day, April 22. The screening will begin at 10:00am at the AMC Loews 84th Street Theatre. To RSVP, either indicate you want to attend the screening on our registration form (tickets above) OR email your name, daytime phone number, school, and the number of people in your party to earthscreening@gmail.com. Disneynature has generously made this event free of charge.
UPDATE: SOLD OUT!
UPDATE: SOLD OUT!
EVENT REGISTRATION
Anyone connected the school community may attend: all students, student government and club leaders, faculty, advisors, all parents, PTA members, administrators, school heads, facilities managers, business heads, and members of the school community.
WORKSHOPS
Please see a complete list and register for our workshops here. They include:
- Green Energy 101
- Calculating Carbon: Your School's Environmental Footprint
- Green on the Lights
- Sustainable School Lunch: Eat Locally, Think Globally
- Healthy Schools, Toxic Chemicals
- Green Tech
- Student Forum: Green and Galvanize
- Parent Forum
QUESTIONS? INTERESTED IN HAVING A TABLE?
Contact us at greenschoolsnyc@gmail.com
Green Schools Alliance and Collegiate School
ABOUT THE GREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE
The Green Schools Alliance (GSA) is a non-profit program, created by schools for schools, to coordinate the concerns of the nation’s 120,000 pre-K to grade 12 public, private and independent schools about climate change and the environment into collective action to protect our shared future.
Inspired by Mayor Bloomberg’s challenge to NYC institutions to reduce their carbon footprint 30% by 2030, the GSA launched inOctober 2007 with the support of the Mayor's Office, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and other national, state and local partners.
http://www.greenschoolsalliance.org
ABOUT THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL AND CENIC
Founded in 1628 by the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church as a school for children of Dutch colonists, the school teaches 600 boys from Grades K-12. Collegiate is both a charter member of the Green Schools Alliance and a local leader in environmental sustainability.
Its student-run environmental club, CENIC (Collegiate with the Environment Naturally in Check) moved the school to 100% green energy in 2007, brought together a coalition of student environmental clubs, and conducted major lighting retrofits. GSNYC is a project of CENIC.
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News & Updates
1,260 NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS SIGN WITH GREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE!
For details, photos, and video of the announcement, click here.
Department of Education officials announced in Downtown Manhattan today that they are measuring energy consumption and carbon emissions from school buildings and taking steps to reduce them 30 percent by 2017.
"If you make information transparent, the children know about it, they will talk about it - why haven't we met our targets, what are we doing?" said Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. "It'll make them more conscious, turning off lights in schools, other matters involving energy consumption. That's the way you change things."
GSNYC TEAM OPENS NASDAQ!
On Monday, April 5, the GSNYC team rang the NASDAQ opening Bell. For details, photos, and video of the ceremony, click here.
BILLY PARISH TO KEYNOTE AT GSNYC!
Billy Parish dropped out of Yale in 2002 to help build a youth movement for climate solutions. As Co-Founder and Coordinator of the Energy Action Coalition for four years, Billy brought together over 50 diverse, youth-led organizations into a joint campaign to catalyze the transition to a clean energy economy called The Campus Climate Challenge. One of the lead architects of the Clean Energy Corps program to create 5 million new green jobs, Billy now works with Green for All, 1Sky and Black Mesa Water Coalition on advocacy for green job creation. Billy was a 2005 Rolling Stone magazine "Climate Hero," Mother Jones magazine's 2006 "Student Activist of the Year," an Utne Magazine "Visionary" in 2008 and was named a "Fellow" by Ashoka, the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. He is also a co-founder of Green Owl Records, a green music label under Warner Music Group, and is a Board Member of several companies and non-profits. Born in New York City, Billy now lives in Flagstaff, AZ with his wife, Wahleah Johns, and their daugher, Tohaana.
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