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Teaching students about real-world wind power
Name: Eryn Norton MolandLocation: Lawrence, KansasContribution: Used a Sierra Club grant to build wind turbines with sophomores at Perry Lecompton High SchoolYou received an education grant from the...
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Berkeley middle schoolers sharpen their knives and keep their cooking and...
Matt Tsang, the longtime garden teacher at Willard Middle School in Berkeley, California, never set out to run "a catering company out of a home economics classroom." Nor had his students' parents ever...
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Young People Wage Unprecedented Lawsuit Over Climate Change
The attorney from the U.S. Department of Justice had never seen anything like it: Under a Pacific Northwest drizzle last March, hundreds of people gathered on the steps of the federal courthouse in...
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The 10 Coolest Schools, 10 Years On
Ten years of doing something will invariably make you better at it. And so it goes with Sierra's ranking of America's greenest colleges. This issue marks a full decade of our efforts to champion the...
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The Greening of K–12 Cafeterias Across the U.S.
Last September, Rory Gresham refurbished five abandoned greenhouses at two high schools in northeastern Louisiana's Richland Parish. He rigged up some hydroponics and ended up producing more than 8,000...
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The Top 20
The Complete Ranking: All 201 Schools | Scoring Key | Methodology | FAQ | More Cool SchoolsDuring the summer of 2015, three Colgate University students and their professor, Mike Loranty, traveled more...
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2016 Cool Schools Full Ranking
The Top 20 | Scoring Key | Methodology | FAQ | More Cool SchoolsCorrections from Sierra's print edition regarding our Cool Schools Ranking: Due to a data-migration error, Emory University was...
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Green Buildings Turn Kids Into Better Students
It's spring in South Lake Tahoe, California, and the snow is just beginning to melt. Ten second-graders are huddled inside a 10-by-10 geodesic dome, furiously scribbling. They ran through the wooden...
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At This Texas School, Birding is the Big Game
Football may be king in Texas, but one of the fastest growing youth sports in the state may actually be . . . competitive birding?For the fledgling ornithologists who compete each April in the Great...
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The Outdoor Preschool Movement
The morning routine at Pattee Canyon Outdoor School in Missoula, Montana, is the same as at any other preschool—except in the ways that it’s not. Missing is the ritual unpeeling of clothing layers, the...
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