The Green Cup Challenge™ (GCC) is the first and only national student-driven, interschool energy challenge that supports and promotes student efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Originally launched as an interschool energy challenge in 2006 at Phillips Exeter Academy, Northfield Mount Hermon and the Lawrenceville School, the GCC joined with the Green Schools Alliance and formally became a GSA program in 2007. Asking schools to measure and reduce campus electricity and greenhouse gas emissions, the Green Cup Challenge builds awareness about climate change and the environment, educates the community about the importance of conservation, and encourages the participation of the entire campus.
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
