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Welcome to the Environmental Awareness Committee website. We are one of the advisory committees for the District’s Strategic Plan. We welcome your participation on our committee, which meets on the third Wednesday of September, November, January, and March, from 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at PUSD District Office, 4665 Bernal Avenue, Bernal Conference Room . If you would like more information about our committee, please contact chair LeeAnn Pomplun (426-4335).
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1. Expand the Environmental Awareness Web Page.
2. Provide opportunities for students to apply the skills and concepts learned in the classroom as they improve their communities with real-world applications.
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As a parent, you are your child's first teacher and role model. What you do (not just what you say) becomes the model that your children imitate as they grow into adults.
Your influence is profound and goes beyond your home to the children you mentor in your roles as den mothers, scout leaders, 4-H advisors, and as coaches.
To build environmental awareness requires support and active participation of each and every member. Please become involved in our efforts by:
- Recycling at home
- Attending environmental committee meetings
- Bringing bottles, cans & ink cartridges to school to recycle
- Attending family ecology events
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The District Environmental Awareness Committee received grants from the City of Pleasanton in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and Altamont Settlement Project in 2006 and 2007. The money supports strategic plan goals whereby all schools received funding for recycling bins, garden projects, and instructional materals.
All students become environmental stewards through participation in recycling programs like Paper Gobblers that  emphasize conservation and preservation of resources.
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Lesson Plans
o California Integrated Waste Management – Closing the Loop http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/schools/
o Bay Friendly Landscape and Gardening www.bayfriendly.org, free workshops, grants for school gardens, Bay Friendly garden tours.
o Earthday Network www.earthday.net - how to launch a successful community event, teachers corner, climate change solutions, environmental tips for each grade level, and many great videos.
o Kids Gardening www.kidsgardening.com - great site to learn about grants, register school gardens, and learn about other school gardens.
o www.cfaitc.org - California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom. A teacher’s resource guide that includes lesson plans, newsletters, video lending library, and web links.
o Divided into three (3) sections: 1) Natural resources and pollution; 2) Solid waste; and 3) Hazardous waste.
o www.teamnutrition.usda.gov - Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This website provides training, grants, lesson plans, and inspirational success stories.
o Life Lab www.lifelab.org - Works with teachers to help use school gardens and hands-on science programs effectively.
o www.climatechangeeducation.com - Hands on K-12 lesson plans, articles, museum for students and teachers, resources catalog.
o www.ecologycenter.org/ -- The Ecology Center's Environmental Resource Center provides information and tools for eco-friendly living. The Berkeley Center also has a library, curriculum and lesson plans through high school to download, a store that sells books on gardening and gardening supplies.
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Environmental Organizations
- Raft http://www.raft.net/
- The Watershed Project provides educator workshops, resources, grant information. It provides classes on how to design a school garden. Great newsletter. http://thewatershedproject.org
- Project Wet - Water education for teachers. http://www.projectwet.org
- Alameda County Stop Waste www.stopwaste.org Register school gardens, Bay friendly gardening workshops, recycling information, and tour.
- Household Hazardous Waste link - How to purchase everything green for school and community. Recycle hazardous waste and pharmaceuticals. www.household-hazwaste.org
- Go Green Initiative http://www.gogreeninitiative.org/
- Bay Area CREEC Online Resources Directory - Environmental education resources, networking, grants, and speakers. http://www.creec.org/region4
- Earthday Network www.earthday.net - How to launch a successful community event, teachers corner, climate change solutions, environmental tips for each grade level, and many great videos.
- Rides to school - Pleasanton’s school traffic calming program www.ci.pleasanton.ca.us/services/transportation/school-transportation.html
- www.cfaitc.org - California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom. A teacher’s resource guide that includes lesson plans, newsletters, video lending library, and web links.
- www.cleanwaterprogram.org – Alameda County Clean Water Program (ACCWP) is a consortium that educates the public about storm water pollution and funds various education programs.
- www.californiasolarcenter.org/ssh.html - Solar school house is a K-12 energy program developed by Rahus Institute.
- EcoSchool Design www.ecoschools.com – Assists schools in transforming paved school yards into vibrant ecosystems for outdoor learning.
- Spare the Air Days www.sparetheair.org – Information on spare the air days, what you can do to help reduce air pollution, and a variety of educational resources. Arrange for free speakers and (Ride Today’s Air Currents – virtual fly over the Greater Bay Area and Central Valley).
- www.sfgreenschools.org -- FREE Green Schoolyard Resources Green Schoolyard Alliance, designing green school yard, grants, curriculum, art, and energy resource. (Go to Eco School Design to view Green Schoolyard Resource Directory.) SFGSA is a coalition of Bay Area civic organizations whose work supports schoolyard transformations. They help to ensure that these emerging vibrant landscapes reflect their site's local ecology and their school's green schoolyard goals & curricula. They publish a bi-weekly online resource directory, host quarterly networking meetings and a bi-annual green schoolyard conference.
- www.needham.k12.ma.us/sciencecenter -- They have developed a great computer program that can create a pattern for a human sundial that is specific to your school's latitude and longitude ($5.00 fee). The Rahus Institute, contact: Tor Allen 925/ 370-7262
- www.rahus.org - Research and education organization. Books, DVDs, teaches solar calendar, and solar home. They can help with the sundials.
- www.nwf.org -- National Wildlife Federation - Schoolyard Habitats Program. For more information about resources: http://www.nwf.org/schoolyard/
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Training
- Compost www.stopwaste.org Register school gardens, Bay friendly gardening workshops, etc.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium http://www.mbayaq.org/lc/
- Doing the 4Rs -- Program on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot
o http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp?page=448
o Cal State East Bay
- The No Waste Anthology http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/education/upload/oea_fly_nwa.pdf
- California Integrated Waste Management – Closing the Loop
- Bay Area CREEC Online Resources Directory – Training on designing school gardens, grant information, and resource directory http://www.creec.org/stories/storyReader$39
- Watershed http://thewatershedproject.org
- www.teamnutrition.usda.gov – Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This website provides training, grants, lesson plans, and inspirational success stories.
- www.oaec.org/ -- Occidental Arts and Ecology Center - School Garden Program. Contact: Tina Poles, School Garden Program Director. Phone: 707/ 874-1559 x202 Email: tina@oaec.org You can apply to residential training program with everything including curricula linked to State standards.
Grants
Media
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School Projects
Others
- www.calhealthyschools.org
- www.pesticide.org
- www.panna.org (Pesticide Action Network North America)
- www.gridalternatives.org -- since 2001 Grid Alternatives has been working to bring the power of solar electricity and energy efficiency to low-income homeowners (in Pleasanton under $60,000/yr.), and to provide community members with training and hands-on experience with renewable energy technologies. The City of Pleasanton is working with Grid Alternative to install solar power on ten low income houses.
- www.plantitearth.com -- A San Francisco store specializing indoor and hydro phonic gardens.
- www.mastergardeners.org -- for a volunteer in your area. Alameda County school and community gardening workshops.
- www.ecologycenter.org.bcgc/ -- community group.
- www.greenteacher.com -- Popular book, "Greening School Grounds." A Green Teacher Magazine.
- www.newvillagepress.org/ -- Community based arts comic book," Works for Arts."
- www.cawalktoschool.com/checklists.html -- Walkability checklist.
- www.zone7water.com/ - Tri-Valley water science classroom programs, assemblies, and workshops.
- www.pleasantongarbageservice.com - greenwaste, food scrap program, recycling, ewaste, and link to househould hazardous waste.
- http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu - garden tours and classes.
- www.alamedacreek.org
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