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Want to Connect Kids to Nature – Connect to Some Great Companies and NWF Members
With kids spending 7 hours a day watching TV, playing video games and other electronic distractions, it is critical that everyone joins the effort to get kids outside and connected nature. NWF is proud to have created a partnership with… Read more >
McLean, Virginia Eco-School Takes a Big Bite Out of Cafeteria Waste
Churchill Road Elementary School holds a Green Flag award in NWF’s Eco-Schools USA program. One of the school’s major greening projects focuses on waste reduction, and they have implemented an exemplary program resulting in a 90% reduction in the trash… Read more >
Student Activist Stands Up Against Keystone XL
College Sophomore Mariah Urueta and 53 other students travelled all the way from Central Michigan University to Washington, D.C. last weekend to pressure President Obama to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. They spent over 20 hours traveling by bus—through the… Read more >
Eco-Schools Win Books in our Power Families Giveaway!
What is your school doing to conserve energy? The Eco-Schools USA staff recently asked this question as part of a fun giveaway they hosted for participating elementary schools across the country. Winning schools won three books in The Power Families series by Susan Saville,… Read more >
Helping Students Cope with Hurricane Sandy
Superstorm Sandy, the clash of the first Nor’easter of the winter season and Hurricane Sandy, a final tropical storm of the hurricane season, wrecked havoc along the east coast, especially the northeastern states. As adults in communities, governments, and civic and… Read more >
Changing the Way Our Children Eat at School
According to the American Heart Association 1 in 3 American kids and teens is overweight or obese, nearly triple the rate in 1963. With good reason, childhood obesity is now the No. 1 health concern among parents in the… Read more >
My First Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference
Every year, students from across the Southeast wait with bated breath to find out the details of one of the most anticipated conferences in the region. The Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference (SSREC) is an event organized by the Southern… Read more >
Fighting Money with Money: Campuses Divest from Fossil Fuels
Hey, did you know? There’s an election coming up! Right, right, you knew. Kind of hard to miss that one. But here are a few more things you maybe didn’t know, that haven’t necessarily been advertised every 30 seconds in… Read more >
Green Roof Inspires New York School: Video
I grew up watching movies set in New York City, so I have many pre-conceived images of life there. A peaceful garden on top of a school was not one of those images. PS 41 is this magical school with the… Read more >
Motorola Solutions Foundation Support Grows STEM Learning and Gardens
Written by Julie Gustafson, Senior Education Manager, NWF In the summer of 2011, NWF supported by the Motorola Solutions Foundation began a journey in education with our partners, Earth Force and Earth Partnership for Schools and the school communities they… Read more >
