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The Green Schools Alliance (GSA) is a global network of schools guiding schools, working together to address 21st Century environmental and climate challenges through the implementation of sustainable, energy-smart solutions.

About
GSA began in NYC with a handful of schools. Today, it has become an inclusive grassroots movement with 2,000 public/charter, private and independent K-12 school members--including the entire NYC public school system--reaching nearly 2 million students in 37 states, 10 countries and growing. Uniquely created by schools, GSA’s goals are:


 * 1) To help schools measure-reduce-report their carbon footprint and non-renewable resource consumption;


 * 2) To build a peer-to-peer community that shares best practices and accelerates the implementation of sustainable solutions


 * 3) To prepare students for the new green economy while educating the broadest number about the importance of 21st Century leadership through environmental stewardship.

Programs
GSA programs integrate education and action, aggregate and quantify progress, and reach across geo-political, socio-economic and generational boundaries. Best practices ripple outward from schools, to families, to the workplace. Approaching the whole school community -- faculty, students, business officers, facility managers, heads of school, administrators, staff and parents -- in a broad range of sustainability and energy actions. GSA schools use the building and campus as a teaching tool. Nearly 2000 schools participate in programs such as :


 * The Green Cup Challenge®:


 * Student Climate & Conservation Corps (Sc3):


 * Sc3 Congress

Approaching the whole school community -- faculty, students, business officers, facility managers, heads of school, administrators, staff and parents -- in a broad range of sustainability and energy actions. GSA schools use the building and campus as a teaching tool. Students work alongside faculty and staff doing everything from recycling, weatherizing, conducting energy audits, changing lights and replacing old boilers, to improving science and technology education, restoring wetlands and planting green roofs.

The GSA is built around a climate and sustainability “Leadership Commitment,” which helps schools set and meet sustainability goals, and become conscious of the connection between their choices and empowered to take action now and into the future. Through GSA school coordinators, and an increasing number of local chapters, GSA is growing an infrastructure to enable school communities to share best practices celebrate progress and accelerate change through peer leadership.

Board of Directors
Margaret Howard Watson

Founder and President Robert W. Pittman Founding member, The Pilot Group; Co-Founder, MTV; Former CEO, MTV Networks; Former COO of AOL and AOL Time Warner Rob Watson CEO, EcoTech International; Founder of LEED™