HOT & BOTHERED
October 27th, 2011 by Gaby
This is a guest post by ACE Field Correspondent Jae Williams, sophomore at Dougherty Valley High School in Northern California.
The spookiest holiday of the year is coming up….what’s not to love? Candy? Costume? Time with friends? Who can resist? The only way this special day (night?) could get any better is if it can love the earth too! So here are some festive holiday decoration tips:
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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!
October 20th, 2011 by Gaby
Celebrities have a lot of impact. If a celebrity says something is cool it totally must be. I am personally a big fan of heart throb Adrian Grenier, who plays Vincent Chase in HBO’s hit series Entourage. So this morning when I was checking up on the Huffington Post Green section, I was pretty excited to see Adrian had recently opened up his second ‘Pop-Up’ shop in Los Angeles, a hipper-than-hip gallery that is a curation of Adrian’s and film producer Peter Glatzer’s favorite green lifestyle tips and designs.
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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!
October 18th, 2011 by Gaby
Where my seniors at? What about my juniors? Sophomores? Freshman? It’s Spirit Month after all and a time to show your school spirit! (I’m going to use this moment as an opportunity to shamelessly plug Spirit Month and the new DOT projects, but that’s not what this blog is about!)
Seniors, not to stress you out, but it’s time to start thinking about that exciting next of phase of your life. Let’s talk about college.
There are many important factors that go into choosing the right college for you, whether it be location, size, areas of study, sports or the social scene. Everybody looks for something different. And even though ACE is focused on high school students, you don’t have to stop being active in green clubs. In fact, you can even think of college as simply as being a new school, new leadership opportunity!
I’m here to to tell you about some of the best green schools. Check it out:
The first ever carbon-neutral college campus was the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. The tiny school (they only have 300 students and one major- human ecology!) set the trend way back in 2007, devoting a huge chunk of their budget to carbon-offsetting efforts.
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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!
October 12th, 2011 by Gaby
This is a guest post by Youth Advisory Board member Daniela, senior at The Harker School in Northern California.
Oh, silly Kermit. You told the viewers of Sesame Street that “it’s not easy being green” – could you be the newest scapegoat for convincing Americans that is too hard to fight global warming?! Well, I could either call in the mob with blazing torches or write up a list to prove you wrong.
Ladies and gentlemen, please read and enact these brainless ways to treat this Muppet-filled planet a little bit better… lazy-person style:
1. Never pour clean water down the drain. Whether you’re pouring out the remains of your tea kettle, water bottle, or vegetable-steaming pot, show a little love to your plants instead! I don’t care if it’s a house plant or the bush outside your house… they’ll like the H2O better than yo’ disposal.
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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!
September 28th, 2011 by Gaby
Last week I posted about Nascar going green. Today I’m writing about… the military going green? What? Yep. You read that right. According to an article in the Washington Post called “Military Spearheads Clean-Energy Drive” the Pentagon, the nation’s single biggest energy consumer is starting to diversify its fuel sources. The Navy’s Blue Angels and their F/A-18 Hornets preformed at …
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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!
September 16th, 2011 by Gaby
Nascar. What are the first thoughts that come to mind when you think of the sport? Do gas guzzling speed racers zooming around the track while burning an absurd amount of rubber come to mind? Nascar wants you to think again.
According to an article in the New York Times, Nascar is increasingly focusing on “cutting costs by recycling, conserving and generating its own energy.” Nascar’s teams, employees, track operators are all on board with a series of green initiatives that include collecting used fuel from the races, planting trees after each race in an effort to offset carbon emissions, and using sheep instead of lawn mowers to help keep the grass around the track short. Other projects have included installing 40,000 solar panels ove 25 acres at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PA and the Roush Fenway team that recycles 96% of each car it produces, purchased bikes for all of the workers in it’s North Carolina facility, and banned use of Styrofoam on the premise.
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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!
September 15th, 2011 by Gaby
This is a guest post by Kristina von Hoffmann, Southern California’s Senior Educator for ACE.
A green school is a happy school. In fact, it’s been shown that student performance can improve up to 25% when special attention is given to the design and lighting of a school campus.[i] Green schools are also healthier schools, reducing the risk of asthma and respiratory disease caused by unsafe ventilation and the use of toxic products. Add that to the fact that buildings in the U.S. (including schools) consume 42% of the nation’s energy, and you’ve already got three great reasons to green your campus.[ii]
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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!
August 16th, 2011 by Gaby
This is a guest post by Jae Williams, a rising sophomore at Dougherty Valley High School in Northern California.
A few months ago, I was watching a video on Youtube by nigahiga, who does popular and funny lip-syncs. It was about these GlobalTap fountains in the San Francisco area. There was even one in the San Francisco Airport! Basically, a GlobalTap fountain is a public fountain designed for reusable water bottle. Each fountain is a clean, filtered, completely free source to refill a reusable water bottle. This promotes use of an eco-bottle instead of individual plastic water bottles.
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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!
March 22nd, 2010 by Lonna
Mrs. Orr’s Environmental Science class at Jonesboro High School in Jonesboro, GA was assigned the task of transforming a typically discarded item into a reusable product. At the end of it all, they found they gave recycled a whole new meaning! See what I mean:
Here I am adorning a cool couture sling bag made completely out of plastic bags!
Another student, took an old …
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Lonna is an educator and YEP! Coordinator in ACE Atlanta. She loves some alliteration, especially about your climate action...Climate change cohorts are crazy cool for curbing carbon causing customs! Shoot me your alliteration on Twitter @LCDawson31
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