National Green Schools Alliance
Website

Founding Year: 2003

Staff: 5

Budget: ~$450k

Arlae Castellanos (Acting Director, Sustainability Tracking Program Manager)

An alliance working together to nurture and fortify sustainable school communities. It was established as Green Cup Challenge at Phillips Exeter Academy, turned into an inter-school challenge and then became an inter-school alliance. By now they have worked with 13k+ ‘sustainability champions’ from 8K+ schools in 48 US states and 91 countries.  They encourage “healthy systems, active design, and progressive efficiencies in the school’s physical place; cultivate charismatic leadership, connection to place, and broad-based action to elevate a school’s educational program; foster interdepartmental learning to make sustainability integral to a school’s organizational culture.”

Programs:

  • Online community of sustainability champions
  • Leadership commitment by senior school administrators
  • Student-led challenges to increase understanding and conservation
  • District Collaborative engaging sustainability professionals from many school districts
  • Energy management services
  • Procurement management services related to sustainability
  • Online resource portal
  • Student Conservation Corps and Congress
  • Professional development for sustainability champions
  • Reporting tools to monitor energy usage
  • Classroom campaigns to expand student engagements

Publications:

  • A resource library with 1200+ items
  • Videos, guides, books, case studies, curriculums, magazines, apps, etc.

 

National Green Schools Alliance contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals


  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
    Calls for an end to poverty globally by 2030 and promotes increased access to basic services and social protection.
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  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    Aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
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  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well Being
    Aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, by reducing mortality rates and increasing access to equitable health care for men and women.
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  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
    Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
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  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    Aims to end gender discrimination in all forms and promote equal opportunity for all women and girls in terms of education, career, and sexual/reproductive rights.
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  • SDG 6 -Clean Water and Sanitisation
    Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by promoting global access to adequate sanitation and hygiene.
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  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by promoting affordable and reliable energy sources.
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  • SDG 8 -Decent Work and Economic Growth
    Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
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  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
    Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.  
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  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    Aims to achieve economic growth by reducing inequalities regarding social, economic and political opportunities and freedoms.
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  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    Aims to promote the globalization of sustainable cities and communities in turn providing universal safe and affordable housing.
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  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    Aims to create responsible and sustainable practices involving consumption and production through efficiently using natural resources.
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  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
    Calls to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts through global awareness, education, and integration into government policies.
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  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    Calls to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development and prevent and reduce marine pollution in order to protect ecosystems and achieve healthy oceans.
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  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
    Aims to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
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  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    Aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Calls to reduce all forms of violence and deaths related to violence and to end abuse and exploitation
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  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    Aims to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development by mobilizing domestic resources in order to provide support for developing countries.
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  Organization Type

Alliances/ Coalitions/ Networks/Partnerships

  Geographic Foci

International

 Subjects

Climate Change|Conservation

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