The Green Strides Webinar Series provides school communities the tools to reduce their schools’ environmental impact and costs; improve health and wellness; and teach effective environmental literacy, including STEM, green careers, and civic engagement.>>> These are all the tools that help schools and districts move toward the aims of our U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools recognition award. This February, the Green Strides Webinar Series will be conducted on:
| National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) |
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February 4, 2013 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
This meeting will focus on NAEPP and National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI) activities from 1:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. ET and then focus on the Federal Asthma Disparities Action Plan beginning at 3:00 p.m. Please read the Action Plan in advance and come prepared to discuss how you and your organization might get involved with implementing the plan.
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| An Energy Literate Citizenry from K to Grey (DOE) |
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February 6, 2013 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
This webinar will detail the Energy Literacy Framework, which identifies concepts every citizen should know to be energy literate. This Framework was developed through a series of workshops and an extensive review and comment process involving the 13 federal partner agencies which make up the U.S. Global Change Research Program and many others.
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| Emerging Green Technologies: OMEGA: Offshore Membrane Enclosure for Growing Algae (NASA) |
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February 13, 2013 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
NASA scientists have proposed an ingenious and remarkably resourceful process to produce clean energy biofuels, that cleans waste water, removes carbon dioxide from the air, retains important nutrients, and does not compete with agriculture for land or freshwater.
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| Climate Time Machine (NASA) |
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February 20, 2013 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Get to know NASA’s website to find resources for teaching or learning about what we know and how we know about what’s happening to Earth.
No registration necessary. Log on here! |
| Healthy Living, Healthy Students (NWF) |
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February 27, 2013 from4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Children are spending more time indoors and under the watchful eye of child-serving institutions. We will explore how NWF’s programs are getting kids outdoors by creating outdoor classrooms, edible school gardens, and natural playscapes and how this makes students healthier!
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For more information on the Green Strides Webinar Series, upcoming webinars, and past webinar recordings, please visit: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/green-ribbon-schools/webinar.html
