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Green School Summit 2007

by Michelle Bexelius

Greening schools is something close to my heart. I have had the pleasure to do green school projects but they require effort and funding to impact change. I decided to attend the Green School Summit in Los Angeles put on by Green Technology. I was thrilled to go but didn’t know what to expect. Traffic was heavy, but I was actually excited that there was difficulty in finding a parking place due to the onslaught of eager people wanting to create change at the classroom level.

I had plans to meet up with eco-activist, Kelly Meyer who recently spearheaded the project, Seven Ten (California’s first Platinum LEED Certified home) along with a team of concerned parents and professionals. We gathered together over lunch to discuss creating a manual for greening schools to help set a positive example statewide. I look forward to participating in this amazing group.

I couldn’t believe how many vendors were there to showcase their products to a variety of people interested in seeking a shift into eco-spaces and promote healthy and sustainable practices. I met with several vendors from recycled paper goods and non-toxic cleaning products to modern, eco-friendly school and office furniture. It was a successful conference with headliners from Ed Begely, Laurie David who produced Inconvenient Truth and Award-winning writer and environmentalist Cambria Gordon who co-wrote The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming, a book for young readers. All in all, it was very inspirational and instilled a greater reason for the necessity to get involved.

Green this Life welcomes your comments. Please tell us if your school would like to have an eco-consultation done or if you have a success story you would like to share.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 11:07 am and is filed under Green Schools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Green School Summit 2007”

  1. Dave Says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    It’s about time for more schools to go green. Getting children to be aware of the importance of being green can not start too early.

  2. Dave Says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    It’s about time for more schools to go green. Getting children to be aware of the importance of being green can not start too early.

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