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Captain Planet Foundation Set to Host 14th Annual X-MAS Party to Save Planet
If you're familiar with the Captain Planet Foundation, then you know what a great job they do giving out grants to teachers looking to bring environmental learning into their schools and classrooms. And without question, the annual X-MAS party and
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Dame vs. Syracuse Gridiron Rivalry Goes Green on Carbonrally.com
With Notre Dame set to play Syracuse this upcoming Saturday on NBC in a carbon-free football game students, alumni and fans of the two schools are upping the rivalry by going head-to-head all month long in the name of sustainable living on
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Young Children Building Antibodies to Cockroach and Mouse Proteins Face Environmental Health Risks
According to a study released by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health there's reason to believe that the development of antibodies to cockroach and mouse proteins is associated with a greater risk for wheeze, hay
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WANTED: U.S. High School Students with Great Eco-Friendly Ideas!
If you’re a high school student with an idea to make your community a more sustainable place to live then there’s a new contest that just may be a great way to get the seed money you need to get your project off the ground. Put together by The Weather
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American Federation of Teachers Passes Landmark Green Schools and Colleges Resolution
It may have slipped by your news reader during the dog days of summer, but don’t think for a second that the AFT’s recent adoption of a green schools and colleges resolution is anything less than a landmark event; because with 1,400,000 members the AFT
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Arizona Elementary Kids Find Online School Newspaper an Eco-Smash
When students and staff at the Frontier Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona realized just 100 kids didn’t have regular access to email in one form or another they took a shot at taking their journalistic masterpiece online, and they’re beaming because
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USGBC and Sen. Clinton Offer Energy Saving Solutions for Schools Via Upcoming Webinar Series
If you're as interested in seeing our schools cutting energy costs and their total carbon footprint as Sen. Clinton and the United States Green Building Council are then there's no doubt you'll want to get involved with their upcoming series of
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GrowKids Creates Key Chain for the Eco-Savvy Shopper
Of course, GrowKids is one of our
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The Go Green Initiative School of the Week: Ladera Elementary in California!
It's charming to go green at Ladera Elementary School, and that's because the teachers and staff have put together a smart group of incentives to encourage students to live greener lives.
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Weather Channel Hosts Essay Contest for High School Students with Eye for Environmental Issues
If you’re a high school student with a passion for the environment and a way with words then we’ve got a contest that’s right up your alley. But you’d better hurry because the deadline for the Weather Channel's high school essay contest is just days
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Westmount Elementary in Alberta, Canada!
The days of the week have taken on entirely new meanings at our Go Green Initiative School of the Week, Westmount Elementary School in Strathmore, Alberta, Canada.
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Discovery and 3M Announce America's Next Top Young Scientist!
When Melissa Ray of Chesterfield, Missouri took home the title this week of America’s Top Young Scientist at the 3M/Discovery Young Scientist Challenge along with her $50,000 prize she joined an elite group of middle school science enthusiasts over the
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Old Settlers Elementary in Flower Mound, TX!
While the grammatically inclined may be wondering where the apostrophe went in the name of the Go Green Initiative's school of the week way back when it was founded, but the simple truth is that they're doing amazing things to help educate kids about
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Read Green Initiative Aims to Cut Deforestation, Trash Creation
If you’ve been looking for a way to green up your reading then the Read Green Initiative may just be for you. Essentially, it’s being organized by Zinio, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of digital magazines, providing magazines in a
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Bass Fishing Now a High School Sport
You may think it sounds crazy, but Illinois recently became the first state to decree that bass fishing is now a high school sport. And I'm wondering how high school coaches and athletic directors feel about it, because I can say with certainty that
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Groton Central School in Groton, NY!
When you hear that our Go Green Initiative School of the Week is located in Groton, NY and has a terrific lunch scrap recycling program called Rot-N-Groton, you know they’ve got both a sense of humor and a knack for getting students involved in cool
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College Students Find Semester in the Wild an Eye-Opening Experience
If you’ve been wondering where you can spend a semester of college sleeping among the trees and finding a way to discover how much you don’t need to buy to be happy, then St. Lawrence College in NY has just what you’ve been looking for, complete with
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Fox Middle School in Arnold, Missouri!
As students at Fox Middle School are taking the world by storm with the school's ongoing program dubbed "Storming the World with Character," they’re working hard to show their friends and neighbors how environmentally savvy they can be. And some of
