The Go Green Initiative: Now the Largest Environmental Education Program in the World

Over 1.5 actor acceptance and agents in the U.S. and about the apple are a allotment of registered Go Green Initiative (GGI) schools. This affairs began on founder, Jill Buck's kitchen table in 2002, and is now the better and fastest growing ecology apprenticeship affairs in the world. The advance of the Go Green Initiative is absolutely exponential We are so aflame to see such absolute after-effects after mandates or legislation of any affectionate  to apperceive that so abounding schools above the apple are complex because they ambition to be, not because they accept to be It's so alarming to see this akin of autonomous stewardship…all at no amount to taxpayers. Our arrangement continues to abound exponentially We've already translated into Spanish, French and Mandarin, and accept been asked to construe the affairs into Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic and German.

-- The Go Green Initiative: Now the Largest Environmental Education Program in the World

Over 1.5 actor acceptance and agents in the U.S. and about the apple are a allotment of registered Go Green Initiative (GGI) schools. This affairs began on architect Jill Buck's kitchen table in 2002, and is now the better and fastest growing ecology apprenticeship affairs in the world.

"The advance of the Go Green Initiative is absolutely exponential," says Jill Buck, Founder and Executive Director of Go Green. "Just three years ago, the GGI had 170 registered schools, 125,000 students, 9,000 teachers, and I was thrilled. Now, amid through 2008, we accept 1500 schools, 1.5 actor students, and over 113,000 teachers! We accomplish in 13 countries: the U.S.; Canada; Mexico; Bosnia; Cameroon; Greece; India; Indonesia; Macedonia; Netherlands; Philippines; Uganda; and the U.K.; and our website receives over 2 actor hits per month. And the best allotment is that the GGI is chargeless to all schools."

Schools accommodating in the Go Green Initiative common are advertisement arresting after-effects if it comes to decay diversion. The Go Green Initiative Association, accouterment a absolute ecology advance plan to schools above the country, is the aboriginal affairs of its affectionate to advise academy communities to quantify and address these types of aberration numbers.

"We are so aflame to see such absolute after-effects after mandates or legislation of any affectionate  to apperceive that so abounding schools above the apple are complex because they ambition to be, not because they accept to be," said Jill Buck. "It's so alarming to see this akin of autonomous stewardship…all at no amount to taxpayers."

And the numbers allege for themselves. Between Dec. 05 and Mar. 08, Go Green schools kept added than 7 actor pounds of recyclables out of the world's landfills. Practically speaking, the accumulative aberration after-effects can be interpreted to apprentice the absolute ecology appulse the advertisement Go Green schools are accepting on the planet. These schools abhorred the use of:

 

44 billion BTUs of activity use 2,604 metric bags of greenhouse gas emissions 18,606,000 gallons of baptize 1 actor gallons of oil 9,653 cubic yards of landfill space, due to cardboard recycling aloneThe advertisement schools, alternating with added schools in the Go Green family, are analytic advanced to a connected advance of their decay aberration in 2008 and beyond. "Our arrangement continues to abound exponentially," says Buck. "We've already translated into Spanish, French and Mandarin, and accept been asked to construe the affairs into Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic and German."

About the Go Green Initiative Association - The Go Green Initiative is the world's fastest growing absolutely absolute ecology action plan for schools. By announcement ecology administration on campuses from elementary schools through universities, Go Green works to absorb families, businesses and bounded governments in the accepted ambition of attention animal bloom through ecology stewardship. Since its birth in July 2002, the Go Green Initiative has been accustomed by the National School Boards Association, National Recycling Coalition, adopted by eight State PTA Boards, implemented in all 50 U.S. states and over 1500 schools, alternating with schools in Europe, Mexico, Asia and Africa. There are currently over 1.5 actor acceptance and agents in registered Go Green schools.

More advice is accessible online at www.GoGreenInitiative.org.

Media Contact:
Jill Buck, Go Green Initiative Association
(925) 487-0777; jillbuck(at)gogreeninitiative.org