Last month I had the opportunity to visit the MUSE School in Southern California. Located in a canyon between Calabasas and Malibu, the setting for the school is idyllic. Founded in 2006 by Suzy Amis Cameron and her sister Rebecca Amis, this marks the first year on the current campus, a 22 acre spread that [...]
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Site Visit: MUSE School (CA)
May 8th, 2012 
Eric Wilson USGBC Launches Its Green Teacher Certificate
March 29th, 2012 Eric Wilson As an educator, this next story is the type I love to read about. The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) is now offering a Green Classroom Professional Certificate Program. According to the Center for Green Schools, the certification program “encourages sustainable practices in classrooms to further the mission of creating green schools for everyone [...]
New Educating for Sustainability Website
March 17th, 2012 Eric Wilson It’s not too often that we write about a website let alone a blog, but Antioch University’s Educating for Sustainability (EfS) program has launched a new WordPress site that aims to serve as a clearinghouse for EfS materials. The university (located in New Hampshire) currently offers a Master’s degree for EfS, but this site is [...]
Posted in Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability 
Tags: Curriculum, Green Schools, Saint Louis Missouri 
No Comments »Study Finds Correlation Between Green Schools and Academic Success
March 15th, 2012 Eric Wilson A team of researchers at the University of Colorado Denver (UCD) found a small positive correlation between academic success at schools that employ environmentally conscious practices. These practices are based on a set of core beliefs that have been devised by the Green School National Network (GSNN). The research consisted of a survey sent to [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson, News Tags: California, Curriculum, Environment, Green Schools, Video No Comments »Green Schools National Conference Wrap-Up
March 3rd, 2012 Eric Wilson I recently attended the 2nd “annual” Green Schools National Conference (in Denver, CO). I say annual in quotation marks since the first one took place in 2010, albeit late in the year. Unfortunately I did not attend the inaugural conference (I was at AASHE’s national conference, which took place a few days before hand). During [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson Tags: Denver, Florida, Green Schools, Washington DC No Comments »2012 Green Cup Challenge is Underway
January 28th, 2012 Eric Wilson From January 18th to February 15th, 116 schools throughout the country will compete to reduce electricity usage at their schools by taking part in the 2012 national Green Cup Challenge® (GCC). This year marks the 5th rendition of the project. Click here for information on the 2010 version. Sponsored by the Green Schools Alliance (GSA), [...]
Site Visit: Denver Public School’s First LEED Gold Campus
November 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson A week and a half ago, I attended the US Green Building Council Colorado Chapter’s Green School Summit. For my notes on the conference, click here. Held on the 35-acre Evie Garrett Dennis E-12, early childhood through 12th grade, though there is also a 2 year program on the campus (for nursing and other career [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Site Visits Tags: Colorado, Denver, Food, Green Schools, LEED, Net Zero Energy, Photovoltaic No Comments »USGBC Colorado’s Green School Summit Wrap-up
November 7th, 2011 Eric Wilson Although I did not “live blog” the US Green Building Council Colorado Chapter’s recent Green School Summit, here are my notes from the event: There are numerous free resources for energy efficiency available in Colorado. Two key ones are the Governor’s Energy Office and the Community Office of Resource Efficiency. Sangre de Christo School District [...]
Posted in Business, Conferences, Conservation, Education, Eric Wilson, Green Building, Green Economy, Live Blogging Tags: Colorado, Green Schools, LEED, USGBC No Comments »Sprout City Farms Fundraiser Through September 30th
September 26th, 2011 Guest Author Sprout City Farms (SCF), an urban agriculture nonprofit organization in Denver, Colorado, manages a one-acre organic vegetable and herb farm on the grounds of the Denver Green School (DGS) in SE Denver. DGS is an Early Childhood Education through 8th grade public innovation school within Denver Public Schools, now in its second year. The curriculum [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Education, Guest Authors, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Colorado, Curriculum, Denver, Green Schools, Organic No Comments »July 2011 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
July 2nd, 2011 Eric Wilson Recent news out of Germany that the country has decided to forgo nuclear energy in the upcoming years has increased the market for wind farms on the North Sea. Conferences like the offshore wind conference in Bremen, Germany this month will become increasingly important. Another intriguing international event takes place this month at the Green [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: AASHE, Calendar, California, Denver, Food, Green Schools, New York City, Waste, Wind Power No Comments »
