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Summary

Teens Turning Green: Schools is an initiative led by high school students that inspires awareness about daily toxic exposures in schools, then takes action to eliminate these exposures.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Toxins are all too common in our schools. They’re in our classrooms, cafeterias, and schoolyards. Half of our nation’s schools have problems linked to indoor air quality and asthma– it is the leading cause of school absenteeism due to chronic illness. Teens Turning Green: Schools opposes these preventable problems and seeks to eliminate them in schools across the country. Focus is on the health and environmental implications of the products found in 4 areas: janitorial, classroom, grounds & food

Activities

Students will be guided through the 6 steps to completing a project (start a chapter, inventory, investigate, analyze, advocate, and outreach) through our online toolkit, and will be assigned a student and adult mentor to help facilitate the process.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $75
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $925
Total Funding Goal: $1,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

We will assemble a database of product case studies that investigate what is actually in the products in our schools. We hope to engage many schools, creating a national network of students to collaborate on research and advocate for change.

Project Message

"We hope to inspire many innovative and successful projects during the 2009/10 school year to encouraging change in the way schools are approaching the products that they are using daily."
- Cora Went, Co President, Teens Turning Green:Schools

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Lisa Wertheim
Associate Director
P.O. Box 1146
Ross, CA 94957
United States
415 456-1130
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Project Sponsor

Lisa Wertheim

Organization

Teens Turning Green
PO Box 1146
Ross, CA 94957
United States
415 289-1001
http://www.teensturninggreen.org

Learn more about Teens Turning Green and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

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This project is located in United StatesUnited States and can also be found under HealthHealth.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 17, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 20, 2009

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