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July 2012 News
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| Greetings! |
We are very pleased to announce Sean Sullivan as our new Green Schools President.
Sean resides in Boston with Meghan, his wife. He is the founder and President of Crew Energy, LLC, a Boston based renewable energy generation development firm. Through acting on legislative and policy initiatives, developing renewable energy generation facilities, providing education, and empowering our fellow citizens, Sean works to create a more sustainable and prosperous future for generations to come.
QUOTE: "It is an honor to work with the talented and dedicated individuals at Green Schools. I feel empowered and responsible to continue our successful development with such dedicated supporters. Thank you for this opportunity."
On the year ahead: "Green Schools comes into the new year with tremendous momentum and clear goals. With growing support, we will be launching new programs, growing membership, and building our organizational capacity. I am honored to make a Green Difference with you all.
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A Message from our new President
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Dear Friends,
Green Schools has completed another successful year of growth and outstanding accomplishments. More schools, more students, more programs, and more support, 2011-2012 has truly been a banner year. It is an honor to introduce myself to you all, many for the first time, as the new President of Green Schools.
There are now more than 130 Massachusetts schools and countless more across the country making the Green Difference. These schools dedicate themselves independently and with our support in implementing programs and completing projects in the interest of environmental stewardship.
It is my pleasure to congratulate Ms. Nicole Cormier as our new Green Schools Student Ambassador Advisor. With 80 Student Ambassadors across Massachusetts, Green Schools has a more student engagement than ever before. These students are engaging and leading their schools through projects and educational programming. This is our next generation of true leaders.
Programming continues to be the core strength of Green Schools. Our programs and materials have been updated and are being distributed internationally. These resource provide programming guidelines and best practices for schools looking to make the Green Difference.
Support is at an all-time high, with increased membership, grants, personal and private contributions, and volunteer hours. It is through the support of every dedicated friend of Green Schools that we are able to continuously improve the education environments of our children.
I am excited for our year to come. Green Schools is focusing on increasing our impact by offering a new Provisional Membership to all schools, which provides access to all of our program materials. Programs are being developed in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and United States agencies. And, the Green Schools Society will launch as an environmental honor society to recognize exemplary students in grades 6 through 12 for their accomplishments in environmental service.
Please count on me, just as I count on you all, to dedicate myself to supporting Green Schools through every able means. I look forward to hearing of the great work and success of you all this year. Because, truly, we share in our successes together.
Sincerely,
Sean R. Sullivan
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| Meet our new Green Schools Vice President | |
We are very excited to elect Danielle Fish as our new Green Schools Vice President.
Danielle, a 14 year resident of Mansfield (native of NJ) is married to her husband Bill, and has two sons Mason (age 12) and Garrett (age 9) who are in the Mansfield Schools. Danielle has had a 20 year career in public relations/political consulting in NJ, NY, and the Boston area. She has worked in the areas of insurance, tourism/economic development, technology and education. Danielle is currently the Marketing Director/Community Relations for Barrows Insurance Agency in Mansfield and campaign manager for State Representative Jay Barrows (a member of the Green Schools Advisory Board).
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"In this my first year on the Green Schools Board, it is an honor to have been elected Vice President. I'm looking forward to working with Robin and Sean and the talented and diverse group of professionals they've assembled from around Massachusetts that comprise our Board.
On the year ahead:
"Green Schools has amazing programs and resources for schools intersted in offering environmental curriculum for their students. Moving forward, our Board will look to form cooperative partnerships in the business community and better commuicate our mission. I'm excited to be a part of these dicussions and contribute my skills to this organization."
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| Meet our new Student Ambassador Officers | |
Co-Presidents
 Shadi
Senior at Foxborough Regional Charter School
"I am a member of my class council and communicate with administration ways to better our environment and be aware of the constant improvements. I am currently focused on school lunches and ways to efficiently serve healthful food while offering a recycling system to students. Personally, I value healthy diets, daily exercise, and strive to be an educated consumerI value healthy diets, daily exercise, and strive to be an educated consumer."
Andrea
Senior at Foxborough Regional Charter School
"Green Schools is a wonderful organization that caught my attention this time last year. Our recycling wasn't going as well as we would have hope. There wasn't enough awareness and we didn't have the proper supplies to make it happen and it killed us to see all of the paper, plastic, etc. going to waste. I invited Robin to my school, showed her around, and introduced her to all the dedicated students that were excited to try and make our school a better place. Our school has just finished its massive 24 million dollar expansion and I am happy to say we have started off more green with our new recycling bins and eco friendly/motion censored lights and this is only the first step to making my school a more eco friendly learning environment. I am eager to see how much more we can accomplish this year."
Treasurer
Kaitlyn Senior at Foxborough Regional Charter School
Secretary
Mitchell Junior at West Bridgewater Middle Senior High School
Communications
Leigh Junior at Nipmuc Regional High School
Green Schools Student Presenters
Carol Senior at Boston Latin School
Jillian Sophomore at Algonquin Regional High School
Jordan Senior at Foxborough Regional Charter School
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Meet our new Green Schools Board Members
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Green Schools is very excited to also welcome some new members to our Board. We are delighted to have such enthusiastic and dedicated folks joining us this year.
New Board Members
Keith Birch - Invensys
Veronica Wiseman - Speech/Language Pathologist/Sharon School Committe/Healthy Futures Task Force Kerri Mullen -Easton EcoMom Alliance Founder & Organizer,
Adjunct Faculty at Stonehill College
Travis Estes - Next Step Living Inc.
Dan Knapp - TD Bank
New Advisory Board Members Mark Logan, Ph.D - Executive Director Foxborough Regional Charter School Joe Maruszczak, Ed. D - Superintendent Mendon-Upton Regional School District
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| SolSolution | 
SolSolution's mission is to simultaneously generate clean, renewable electricity and increase the quality of education in underprivileged schools. We install solar panels at schools at no upfront cost to decrease electricity expenses and thereby increase educational budgets. Furthermore, SolSolution reinvests its profits from the sale of the solar-generated electricity into educational programming in STEM, solar, and green entrepreneurship for all of its partner schools and provides cash grants exclusively for low-income schools.
Last December, SolSolution completed its pilot school installation on Aruna's Place Preschool in Sudbury, MA, and to date, the 3.9 kW solar photovoltaic installation has generated over 2,200 kWh of electricity saving the school hundreds of dollars. Now, the SolSolution team is working with over 30 schools and school districts across the state to provide even more clean energy for education.
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| The Park School says, "Less Phone Books!" |  Fourth graders from The Park School say, "Less phone books!" Instead of getting so many phone books you should be able to opt-out. Most people don't use phone books, but they still get two of them a year. We want to petition the Massachusetts government to make it so that you can get out of getting phone books if you don't want them. By opting-out, soon you will realize that things will significantly change in the amount of phone books you are receiving.
http://www.change.org/petitions/massachusetts-pass-an-opt-out-law-for-phone-books
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| A message from your Newsletter Coordinator |
I hope you had a wonderful and safe holiday this past week. As your new Newsletter Coordinator I wanted to let you know that if you had any questions regarding newsletter content or if you had any information, events, or exciting news regarding your school/business that you would like to share in our monthly newsletter please send an e-mail to: newsletter@projectgreenschools.org Please note all submissions will be reviewed before being placed in our newsletter. Thank you Tammy
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Save the Date...
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08/17-18/2012 | Boston Green Fest | Boston, MA
City Hall Plaza
10/7/2012 | Mansfield, MA (Mansfield HS)
Green Schools Launch of Programs for 2012-2013
Please save the date for the Green Schools Launch!
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Sincerely,
Robin Organ
Founder and Executive Director
Green Schools
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