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School Action Checklist
Thanks for checking us out – here are the links for greening your schools. You can also download the entire booklet here. Let’s work together so the kids – and their kids – have a healthy planet.
We are serious about the ICE CREAM! Check off at least 5 things on the action sheet and we will buy your class icecream! Contact us at Info@seausrise.org.
Electric Buses
Read how a sixth grade student changed Miami’s school buses.
Get Solar Panels &
How to Become a Green Apple School
Schools can save money on electricity costs. Find out how to help your school go solar.
Florida Green Apple School Program
Launched in 2016, the Florida Green School Designation Program is an initiative of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection that designates and recognizes K-12 schools that make a voluntary commitment to conserve and protect Florida’s natural resources. The program’s environmental guidelines allow Florida primary and secondary schools to evaluate operations, set goals and take specific actions to continuously improve environmental performance.
Pinellas County School Board information and Pinellas County Commission information.
Green Your School Cafeteria
Meatless Mondays! How to get your school cafeteria to have great alternatives to meat.
5th graders go rid of single use plastics and so can you.
Use planet friendly cleaning supplies and pesticides.
Stop Idling!
Here’s a toolkit to help stop vehicles from spewing in school lines.
It is especially bad when you think of the concentrated gases going into kids’ lungs. The EPA also has a tool kit to get your school and parents to turn off while they wait.
Green Sports
Here are two different guides on making school sports more environmentally friendly, to download and share. Many schools are already putting LED lights on the field. Getting water refill stations and reducing plastic are two of the areas that are most easily accomplished.
