Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has announced his proposal for a significant bump in the Commonwealth’s education investment. The budget includes the single-largest increase for at-risk schools in Virginia history, raises teacher salaries 3 percent, funds more school counselors and new staff supports for English language learners, and makes significant new flexible funds available for local […]
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Want to Boost Educational Outcomes, Virginia? Then Green the Schools!
December 19th, 2019 · Comments Off on Want to Boost Educational Outcomes, Virginia? Then Green the Schools!
Tags: economics · Education · environmental · green · green schools · LEED · schools · virginia
Virginia Energy Plan: @GovernorVA should GO BIG or go home …
August 23rd, 2018 · Comments Off on Virginia Energy Plan: @GovernorVA should GO BIG or go home …
Governor Northam has a real opportunity – assuming he seizes it – to set Virginia on a path toward increased prosperity, improved security, and global leadership this fall. “Virginia law requires the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) to write a ten-year Energy Plan in the first year of every new administration. The statute lists […]
Tags: building green · bus · business practice · dominion virginia power · economics · electric vehicles · electricity · Electrification · emissions · Energy · environmental · green · green schools
Green Schools to Improve Educational Performance … and save money … and …
September 2nd, 2013 · Comments Off on Green Schools to Improve Educational Performance … and save money … and …
To America’s School Boards, What if I could you offer you a reliable path to … Improve Educational Results Improve Student, Teacher, and Staff morale Improve Student, Teacher, and Staff health Create Jobs in the Local Economy Improve Economic Performance in the near-, mid-, and long-term Save money … Intrigued? You should be. And, the […]
Tags: economics · green · green schools
A challenge of Olympic proportions …
July 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on A challenge of Olympic proportions …
The opening ceremony is hours away and sporting events have begun for the 2012 summer Olympics in London. Besides a life-long joy at exposure to new sport, great sports feats, and the basic global harmony concept of the Olympic games, the London games caught my attention for the organizers’ plans to make it totally green. […]
Tags: business practice · carbon offsets · Energy · Global Warming · green · greenwashing
Unpublished Letters: Green is more than tacking on renewable energy
December 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment
WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]
Tags: green · green schools · media · unpublished letters · Washington Post
Republican Whitfield Hates Investments That Pay Off for Taxpayer: Killing the Greening the Capitol Initiative
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Republican Whitfield Hates Investments That Pay Off for Taxpayer: Killing the Greening the Capitol Initiative
As part of the general agenda to drag America into a nightmarish Mr Rogers’ neighborhood, the Republican House Majority is pushing through legislation that will savage the U.S. government’s ability to monitor risks to the public and inform decision-makers about how to move forward to address these threats. And, they are also savaging programs — […]
Tags: Congress · Energy · environmental · environmental economics · government energy policy · green · political symbols · politics
Solar Cooking at the Farmers Market
June 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on Solar Cooking at the Farmers Market
If embraced, solar cooking has the potential for providing a meaningful Silver BB in the fight to mitigate climate change, in the struggle to reduce health damage from polluting cooking (such as wood or coal burning in inadequately vented homes), and aiding economic strengthening for some of the world’s poorest people (reducing costs (both monetary […]
Tags: eco-friendly · Energy · energy smart · environmental · green
Reducing School Cafeteria Waste
June 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
What follows is a very practical discussion of how to help move ‘green’ incrementally into America’s primary school cafeterias from the perspective of a ‘green’ parent in Virginia. I was recently a guest blogger on Mrs. Q’s “Fed Up with School Kunch” blog and cross-posted here to gain a larger audience. Here’s the original blog […]
Tags: environmental · green · guest post · schools
An entrepreneur reports from the “Green Olympics”
February 24th, 2010 · Comments Off on An entrepreneur reports from the “Green Olympics”
Jack Hidary, one of the more innovative green entrepreneurs, is at the Vancouver Olympics evidently enjoying himself at events (evidently speed skating) but, more importantly, engaging with world leaders (political, cultural, private sector) to foster engagement toward more sustainable practices. Find more videos like this on Planet Forward In this video, Hidary discusses Vancouver’s Green […]
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“cause we’ve always cussed the wind …”
January 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Courtesy of Planet Forward comes this video about how farming the wind has turned around Roscoe, Texas (and rural communities in many parts of the ‘wind belt’). Roping the wind in Texas from Powering a Nation on Vimeo. Farmer Cliff Etheredge provides his perspective on the community’s change with wind development. It’s a 180-degree attitude […]
Tags: Energy · green · renewable energy · wind power