Green Schools NYC 2009 April 18, 2009

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OVERVIEW
The Green Schools Alliance (GSA) and Collegiate School will host the first city-wide Green Schools Conference on April 18, 2009. Students, parents, faculty, and administrators from over 150 Public and Independent Schools will assemble together with common resolve to make their schools leaders in environmental sustainability. A student-organized, student-run event, the conference will take place at the Collegiate School in Manhattan.

SPREAD THE WORD!
Invite friends, colleagues, and students from your school and other schoolshere.

PROGRAM
A morning keynote kicks-off a resource fair, and buffet lunch, where students, faculty, parents, and administrators meet green companies, non-profits, and model schools. The afternoon includes technical workshops in carbon footprints, sustainable food, green energy, lighting retrofits, green curriculum and more.

EARTH SCREENING
To kick off theday, join us for aspecial advance screening of Disneynature's first film, EARTH,only in theatres starting Earth Day, April 22. The screening will begin at 10:00am at the AMC Loews 84th Street Theatre. To RSVP, email your name, daytime phone number, school, and the number of people in your party to [email protected]. Disneynature has generously made this event free of charge.

EVENT REGISTRATION
Anyone connected the school community may attend: all students, student government and club leaders, faculty, advisors, all parents, PTA members, administrators, school heads, facilities managers, business heads, and members of the school community.
In order for schools to get maximum benefit from this event, we recommend that you put together a "team" to attend the event together.Attending the event together as a group offers a rare opportunity for these groups to communicate with each other.

TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS
As we near the date of the event, we will send out an electronic sign-up sheet to registered attendees for a host of technical workshops that will take place in the afternoon. Some examples of workshops:

Green Power 101
Retrofitting Your Lighting
Measuring Your Impact: Carbon Footprints and Energy Benchmarking
Sustainable Food: School Lunches and Beyond
Student Activism: Creating Real Change
Toxins in Schools
Green Tech Seminar: Tools to Take you to the Next Level
Government Programs for Your School

QUESTIONS? INTERESTED IN HAVING A TABLE?
Contact us at [email protected]



Organized by Green Schools Alliance and Collegiate School

ABOUT THE GREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE
The Green Schools Alliance (GSA) is a non-profitprogram, created by schools for schools,to coordinatethe concerns ofthe nations 120,000 pre-K to grade 12 public, private and independent schools about climate change and the environmentinto collective action to protect our shared future.
Inspired by Mayor Bloombergs challenge to NYC institutions to reduce their carbon footprint 30% by 2030, the GSA launched inOctober2007 with the support of the Mayor's Office, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and other national, state and local partners.
http://www.greenschoolsalliance.org

ABOUT THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL AND CENIC
Founded in 1628 by the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church as a school for children of Dutch colonists, the school teaches 600 boys from Grades K-12. Collegiate is both a charter member of the Green Schools Alliance and a local leader in environmental sustainability.
Its student-run environmental club, CENIC (Collegiate with the Environment Naturally in Check) moved the school to 100% green energy in 2007, brought together a coalition of student environmental clubs, and conducted major lighting retrofits. GSNYC is a project of CENIC.
www.collegiateschool.org

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Ticket Info:  

• Student, Free
• Faculty, Free
• Administrator, Free
• Parent, Free
• Other, Free

Official Website: http://greenschoolsnyc2009-upcoming.eventbrite.com