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ACE’s Biggest Loser: Energy Competition Bonus Project Prizes
June 25th, 2012 by Gaby
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
ACE Biggest Loser: Energy Small Schools Winner
June 22nd, 2012 by Gaby
Today’s Biggest Loser: Energy winner? The small school that won big. The winner of the most impact for a school with fewer than 700 students goes to…
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
Congratulations, Mahuya!
June 14th, 2012 by Gaby
A special shout out to Southern California’s Youth Rep Mahuya Barua for coming in third place in Global Green USA’s Citizen Entrepreneur competition! This post is taken from Global Green USA‘s Citizen Entrepreneur winner’s announcement.
When we launched our Citizen Entrepreneur Contest to identify local green heroes, we hoped to elicit nominations of individuals who are true local green heroes, each taking responsibility for a corner of their world. We got an incredible response of more than 130 nominations, so choosing the winner proved to be a challenge, made only more difficult by the outpouring of public support during the voting phase. I am pleased to announce that Cassie Parsons, a farmer and chef/restauranteur from Charlotte, North Carolina, took our top prize to help support a community garden project in a low-income community. We also received additional funding to award a 2nd, 3rd place, and five runners-up. This all reinforces the call for not only leadership in the halls of government and corporate board rooms, but for local green heroes who embody the spirit of Citizen Entrepreneurs. Watch out for future announcements in our ongoing search to celebrate and support citizen entrepreneurs.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
Hey Apple, What About the Pedestrians?
June 13th, 2012 by Gaby
Admit it: you’d be totally lost without your cellphone. Especially if it’s a smartphone. We’ve come to rely on them for everything from checking email on the fly to writing down an important note to actually making phone calls to checking the handy maps to make sure we don’t get lost. So when new models are set to come out, it’s super exciting, right?
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
Bellflower High School Students Leading Their Community
June 12th, 2012 by Gaby
Any high school may find it hard to get students to focus on climate change. But at Bellflower High School, a Los Angeles County Title One school because at least 75% of students are on free or reduced lunches, the Roots and Shoots ACE Action team is making a difference. Every day, these students are proving that even the smallest of choices come together to create a large impact that affect the entire community.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
The Greenest Summer Ever
June 11th, 2012 by Gaby
For most of us, it’s almost summer vacation, and some lucky ones among us have actually on summer break for a few weeks now. Are you wondering what to do with your summer vacation, besides hanging out by the pool, of course? Read on for a few fresh tips for making the most out of your glorious three months off. Let’s make this the greenest summer ever!
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
Leadership Training Love
June 8th, 2012 by Gaby
This is a guest post by Las Vegas Educator Vernard Williams.
This May, twenty-seven students from five different schools volunteered their Saturday to learn about sustainability at Western High School in Las Vegas. The training was a hit! The youth exclaimed that they would gladly give up another off-day to do it again. This event was a collaborative training run by the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) and Nevada WorkForceConnections.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
One Freshman Making Big Changes
June 6th, 2012 by Gaby
Remember your freshman year of high school? Were you concerned about going to the mall? Who to sit next to at lunch? Having your crush know your name? Or hosting a fair to educate your community about the benefits of renewable energy, eating locally and the importance of composting programs? Among her peers, Grace Jentsch, a freshman at Random Lake High School in Random Lake, Wisconsin, certainly stands out, especially in a rural town where many families are either dairy or cattle farmers.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
Power Down for the Weekend
June 1st, 2012 by Gaby
It’s Friday, a day we all recognize and love, thanks to the questionable talents of Rebecca Black. It’s also the first day of June, which is the first real month of summer which means one thing and one thing only: schools getting out and it’s time to get outside. But before you run out of school yelling, “SCHOOL’S OUT FOR THE WEEKEND!” make sure you take a few minutes to power down your school and home. Read on for more.
If you’re Action Team is participating in ACE’s Biggest Loser: Energy competition, you’re probably well aware that powering down gadgets and devices saves your school (and home!) both quite a bit of CO2 from being released into the atmospheres and a bunch of money on the energy bill. But did you know that you can actually get extra credit for doing things like creating posters to remind everybody to turn out the lights when they leave the room or throwing a Power Down Day? Yeah, you totally can! Just be sure to tell us about your projects. Plus, one lucky Action Team who submits a bonus project will win a PowerDown PrizePack that’s worth 50 bucks.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
How to Flip ‘Em Off
May 30th, 2012 by Gaby
The countdown for getting Final Weigh-Ins submitted for ACE’s Biggest Loser: Energy competition is officially on. What better way to close out the competition on a strong note than to crank out a few super awesome, super original Bonus Projects?
We in ACE Head Quarters had a great time making these celebrity Shut ‘Em Down posters (click to download your own copies!) to hang over lights to remind people to shut ‘em down when they leave the room. In fact,we had such a good time making them that we wanted to pass along our secrets to you. Read on for the step by step down low on how to make these posters.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!