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In a progressive effort to educate students in environmental awareness, several hundred K-8 schools are partaking in the first annual “National Green Week.” The Green Education Foundation has created a curriculum that will have children focus on waste reduction, environmental cause & effect, and community involvement.  The by-product of hundreds of thousands of young people [...]

A middle school in Medford, Massachusetts recently finished installing a wind turbine on its campus. The single 100kw wind turbine will offset about ten percent of the school’s energy and save the city about $25,000 each year. While the turbine project cost upwards of $650,000, the school was able to pay for it through fund raising efforts of the Medford Clean Energy Committee and a number of grants from different nonprofits (a few that required the school provide education around alternative energy and sustainable resources).