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NYC School's Chancellor Joel Klein Announces GSA Coalition in Memo to Principals
The Department of Education joined forces last year with the Green Schools Alliance (GSA), a nationwide coalition of schools that works to build a sustainable future through education and action projects… Continue reading >

Green Schools: Save Energy, Save Money and Help Save Lives

GSA Charter Member, Pace Academy in Atlanta challenges Green Cup™ schools to send money from energy savings to help Haiti. Tea Leoni, Actress, GSA Parent and UNICEF Ambassador, asks students for “letters and drawings.”  More >

Schools Facilities CEO John Shea, City Sustainability Deputy Director Adam Freed and Actor Matthew Modine Call on Schools to Reduce Energy Consumption by Joining the Green Cup Challenge
The DOE’s membership in the Green Schools Alliance is part of the City’s overall efforts to achieve its PlaNYC target of reducing municipal government energy consumption and carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2017. … Continue reading >

Actor Matthew Modine Helps Sixth-Grade Students at MS 442 in Brooklyn Kick Off a Program to Reduce Electricity Use in Their Building
Actor and environmentalist Matthew Modine joined sixth graders from MS 442 in Carroll Gardens to kick off a competition to reduce electricity use in schools. The Green Cup Challenge encourages students to measure and reduce… Continue reading >

Growing Green At A Manhattan Public School
PS 166, an elementary school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is making conscious efforts to reduce their carbon footprint and is teaching its students about the values of going green. It has recently signed up for the fourth annual Green Cup Challenge.… Continue reading >

School Spirit: Upper West Side's PS 166 Goes For GSA Green Cup Gold
The school is one of just four Manhattan public schools enrolled in the fourth annual Green Schools Alliance Green Cup Challenge, a contest that encourages schools to measure and reduce the amount of energy they use.… Continue reading >

GSA Featured Schools
Learn about what GSA members are doing “to deliver a generation of global citizens who are knowledgeable about and inspired to take responsibility for the sustainability of the world”… Continue reading >

GSA Rings Nasdaq Bell
Green Schools Alliance (GSA) and partner, the Collegiate School, visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York to promote the Green Schools NYC conference that took place on Saturday, April 18th at the Collegiate School in New York City.  Read more >

City Schools Join Green Schools Alliance
Students and school decision makers – including faculty, facility managers, principals and parents – are working together to launch grassroots green initiatives with support from the NYC Department of Education (DOE) and Division of School Facilities (DSF).  Read more >

Teens Across the Country Meet for First Sc3 Conference
Over 100 of the nation’s best environmental student leaders from high schools across the country gathered for the first annual meeting of the National Student Climate and Conservation Corps. (06/30/09)  Read more >

Green Cup Challenge™

NYC Public Schools Students Participate in the Green Cup Challenge
Actor Matthew Modine, well-known environmental activist and founder of bicycleforaday.org, spoke at Brooklyn's PS442 last Wednesday. His mission? To help inspire a group of middle school students who were about to be part of a remarkable green initiative…   Read more >

NYC Public Schools Students Participate in the Green Cup Challenge
Actor Matthew Modine started a chat with middle school students at Brooklyn’s New Horizons School, MS 442 on Wednesday by turning off the overhead fluorescent lights to reduce energy. “I feel very strongly about empowering individuals to make a measurable, tangible difference to our community,” he said.…   Read more >

Green Cup Challenge invites schools to save energy, money, and maybe the planet
Can schoolkids do what world leaders in Copenhagen failed to do last month: lower greenhouse gas emissions in the face of climate change? You may have already seen how some students challenged leaders in Denmark with patches from the climate quilt; now, the Green Schools Alliance (a sponsor of the quilt) has persuaded 128 schools in 22 states to take direct action against global warming by participating in the Green Cup…   Read more >

Phillips Exeter Academy (2009)
Phillips Exeter Academy students are among thousands in the Northeast taking the challenge.

Deerfield Academy (2009)
Deerfield Academy takes up the challenge.

Berkshire School (2009)
Read about Berkshire Schools goals for this year's challenge.

Eaglebrook School (2009)
Eaglebrook is the only exclusively middle school in the country to take on the challenge.

North Carolina and Virginia Independent Schools (2009)
Green Cup Challenge between Cary Academy, Charlotte Country Day, Greensboro Day, Ravenscroft, and St. Christopher's.

Springside School (2009)
Springside has a deep commitment to encouraging its students to solve real problems and address real needs.

The Hill School (2009)
The Hill School recently signed the Climate Steward commitment through the GSA, in which they pledged to create a carbon emissions benchmark and report their progress.

St. Andrew's School (2009)
St. Andrew’s is dedicated to engaging students in the fight for environmental sustainability and preservation

Brooks School (2009)
Brooks’ Power Saving Rangers placed eighth out of 150 schools participating in the 2009 Green Cup Challenge.

Salisbury School (2009)
Salisbury sought to Cultivate common sense habits and lifestyles around electrical use to bring about dramatic reductions.

Participating Boarding Schools (2009)
A list of boarding schools that participated in the Green Cup Challenge.

Green Schools

Going Green at School
The ECO has landed – Enviro-conscious crusader Francesca Olivieri, owner of sage baby in NYC, tells you how to get more green into your life, now and forever.

Why (Green) Schools Matter
Green real estate advisor Leanne Tobias discusses the benefits of green school construction. (02/11/09)

GreenerBuildings.com
A one-stop resource on designing, constructing, and operating environmentally responsible commercial and industrial buildings, created in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council. It features a free, twice-monthly e-newsletter, GreenerBuildings News.