🌞 3 Trends to Send Students Back-to-School Clean-Energy-Cool: with Sunny Climate News
🗞️ EXTRA, extra: clean energy vibes are illuminating beautiful-renewable futures— with your aid
🌅 “The best way to learn about the future is to become it”— me, turning an often-quoted phrase from Pete Drucker, 🗣️ “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: on the Horizon
Happy Monday! Here’s a Back-to-School Special Edition of Sunny Climate News.
🌞 3 Trends to Send Students Back-to-School Clean-Energy-Cool: with Sunny Climate News
Solar Schools— Smart Savings: for Supplies, Scholarships, & Smiles
The Wheels on the Bus— Go Electric: Spreading, Clean Air, & Around
A Climate for Sustainability Education: Illuminating, Inspiring, & Empowering
1. Solar Schools— Smart Savings: for Supplies, Scholarships, & Smiles
🗣️ “The ability to keep our schools open and running during a power failure ensures that there are no disruptions to teaching and learning.” —Matthew Belasco, PUSD Director of Maintenance, Operations, & Transportation
🗣️ “A goal of 100% [clean energy] signals to students like me that you truly care about our future.” —Thomas Brulay, Student at Mast Academy
🌞 Join Generation180’s Solar for All Schools Campaign 🏫
& spread the word to all the educators, school board members, parents, and students!
2. The Wheels on the Bus— Go Electric: Spreading, Clean Air, & Around
The [electric school bus] wheels of change are not just lowering carbon footprints, but also creating an innovative culture. Each electric bus will be charged using solar carports and charging stations, reducing strain on the city’s power system while also supporting local energy infrastructure.🗣️ “We are actually supporting the local electric grid by providing the necessary power to our batteries.” —Tim Zearley District’s Associate Superintendent of Business Services
The funding under the EPA Clean School Bus Program will go a long way in replacing diesel school buses with all-electric school buses and thus, improve air quality in New York City and the State, reduce children’s exposure to asthma-causing pollutants while also protecting the health of drivers and the communities these buses drive through —WE ACT for Environmental Justice Celebrates Rebate Awards for EPA Clean School Bus Program
3. A Climate for Sustainability Education: Illuminating, Inspiring, & Empowering
“We’re going to need writers and artists and real estate agents and economists,” —Lauren Madden, a professor of elementary science education at The College of New Jersey via Grist
That’s it for this week! Thanks for catching-up & showing-up where you are to learn & teach a more beautiful & renewable world. 💚
Stay clean-energy-cool & plugged-in:
Let us know what brightness you’re up-to beautifying our world:
Finally—THANK YOU, for all you do! For tomorrow, today— the future thanks you, too.
Last week’s edition:
🌞 3 Ways to Pitch-In Supporting, Appreciating, & Empowering Clean Energy Labor: Sunny Climate News
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