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We tried something new this year to award two $2,500 grants to Action Teams taking on climate projects – we let you decide.
Thank you for voting for your favorite projects – check out our lucky winners and their projects…
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ACE Action Grant winners
December 13th, 2010 by ACE Field Correspondent
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ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
Exciting News from ACE’S Executive Director
November 3rd, 2010 by ACE Field Correspondent
By Pic Walker, ACE Executive Director
The leaves are falling and the days are getting cooler but the ACE program is heating up. Our offices around the country are humming. We just surpassed 550,000 students and more than 1,000 high schools reached with our climate science assembly.
I wanted to share a few highlights of ACE’s programs from this past year…
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ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
Juno Actress Rocks a DOT
October 29th, 2010 by ACE Alumni
There’s a buzz out there that Ellen Page is might be in the next Batman movie. Well, we caught up with her to shoot a little prequel to being an action hero.
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Cash for green projects?
October 25th, 2010 by ACE Field Correspondent
Looking for some cash for your next Action Team project? ACE can help you!
We’re awarding 2 $2,500 Action Grants to help you take on your next carbon-reducing, awareness-raising project – anything from implementing a recycling program to installing water filters at school.
Click here to get started!
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ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
Riding into a Future Free of Coal and Oil in LA
October 20th, 2010 by ACE Alumni
On October 10, 2010 – 350.org’s international day of action – there were more than 7,000 events held around the world to lower our emissions and raise our voices.
In LA, Kristina, Ethan and myself joined action team leaders, activists, friends and neighbors to rally against coal and oil in Los Angeles. Speakers included, among others, LA City Council President Eric Garcetti, Ellen Page of Juno and Inception fame (check out her hot DOT here) and an outstanding young leader in the climate movement, Matt Dang of Environmental Charter High School.
Read the speech that moved the crowd to roar as Matt stepped off stage…
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How to green your school from Cali to Minnesota
October 6th, 2010 by Adarsha
This month, I’ll be representing ACE at the Green Schools National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Its goal is to engage high school students and drive them towards making their schools more sustainable. At the conference…
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Adarsha Shivakumar is the cofounder of Project Jatropha and a member of the Youth Advisory Board of ACE.
Let’s Get Solar On The White House
September 10th, 2010 by ACE Alumni
I’ll call it a Phoenix… out of the ashes of a dead climate bill in the US Senate, rises an opportunity for our President to be a leader and reincarnate an American industry that could both create jobs and help curb climate change.
What am I talking about? Solar on the White House, of course…
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Action Teams: not-so-new, definitely improved!
August 26th, 2010 by ACE Alumni
By Ashlee Jensen, ACE National Action Team Coordinator
Today, I want to tell you about some changes to our Student Action Program. Change can be overwhelming but ACE’s improved program is something I’m pretty sure we all can believe in!
After an awesome spring, with more than 400 action teams and 150 projects under our belts, we realized our Action Team program still needed some …
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ACE on NPR
August 10th, 2010 by ACE Field Correspondent
ACE wrapped up its Connect the DOTs biobus tour this past weekend with a stop at the California Academy of Sciences.
There, we presented to museum visitors and rocked one last biobus rooftop concert with Seasunz and Ambessa Fiyapowa.
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ACE Field Correspondents are students and ACE Team members reporting from regions around the country on climate news, events, inspiration and more. To become a Field Correspondent, contact your ACE Educator or email blog@climateeducation.org
Biobus Adventure: What Makes The Best Breakfast?
August 2nd, 2010 by ACE Alumni
Instead of eating our usual breakfast, we grabbed some fried plantains and Central American pastries in South L.A., while also feeding the bus a little good morning grease… (video inside)
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