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It's good to see someone is thinking about how we make cleaning sustainable.  A small company that provides sustainable cleaning at hospitals, schools, offices, and food & beverage companies.

Read how a 16 y old boy discovered the way to increase the speed of plastic bags' biodegradation...astonishing!

School buses are now being fitted with the latest "run your car on water" technology in order to increase gas mileage and lower emissions.

Here are over 50 ways to make your school a more earth-friendly campus. Recruit helpers and get creative to make the job fun.

Prince Georges County Maryland borders the District of Columbia and is one of the largest and wealthiest Counties in the State of Maryland.  With hundreds of public school, the amount of recyclables is in the tons/week.  Yet, there is not recycling anywhere to be found at the schools and the kids have taken notice.  Students at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville Md, formed an enviornmental task force and put out a petition to get recycling in their schools.

I am at a school in South Florida, I started a Green Team and we just had a HUGE celebration of EARTH DAY!!! It was amazing, we had Pizza Fusion with their utensils made out of potatoes and GM Hybrids on display outside...feel free to ask any questions at tlcgirl1219@comcast.net

Modtech announced that it now has the ability to offer the Iguana green classroom buildings via a district-approved cooperative purchase (”piggyback”) agreement. The Iguana is based on standards from the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifiable without site consideration.

The students expected to be leading the green revolution prefer making green over being green. That is according to a study which surveyed 527 MBA students at 12 top-ranked international business schools where only 34% of the students viewed a company's environmental policy as an "extremely" or "very important" factor in selecting an employer.

It turns out that the claimant in the recent UK case against showing The Inconvenient Truth in schools, Mr. Stewart Dimmock, school governor (and “father of two” as various media agencies were quick to highlight) is in fact a member of a right wing political group that is anti-environmental, and even described as "fascist' by Scottish press.

A primary school in a former mining community devastated by a pit closures has become the first UK school to be wind-powered through a turbine in the school grounds - and the first to win an award for the country's greenest school.

JMU in Virginia is starting to train undergrads in sustainability issues

Prime Minister Howard announces significant new measures to continue tackling climate change in Australia.

A Texas school already cited for mold has added insult to injury, as 7 janitors are sickened after cleaning with bleach. It goes to show how important it is to use non-toxic cleaning products, as well as check for mold.

With only just over 3 weeks until the schools go back, it’s time to start thinking about stocking up on essential “Back to School” supplies and uniform for the start of the next school year. Green school supplies and uniforms are starting to make it into the mainstream, so with a little bit of forward planning, there’s no reason why you can’t choose the greener options.