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Cool
Schools Project
Read all about our New Intern, Bonny Frick!
These Realtor partners are helping schools!
Cool Schools Update
Sign a Realtor Pledge Form
Energy Savings Updates from Analy, El
Molino and Laguna High Schools 2004
Analy and El Molino put Green Schools
on the web
What we can't do alone, we can do together.
Cool Schools is
a project of the Climate Protection Campaign. Now that the important
tier of local governments have embarked on reducing GHG emissions, the
next important tier is our local schools. Especially during times of budget
cuts, schools are very interested in the money savings resulting from
reductions in energy use and GHG emissions.
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West Sonoma County High—now part of Cool Schools
With a green light from Board President Nick Lucia, Superintendent
Dave Wheeler on May 6 signed a letter of intent that officially begins
West County High School’s involvement with the Cool Schools program.
In anticipation of the program’s fall launch, we are now recruiting
teams of faculty, staff, and students. Teams will attend an orientation/training/planning
session to customize a program for their schools. Seven teachers have
already signed up. Analy teachers include Dave Casey, Matt Christensen,
Junie Curtis, Jason Roth, and Susan Swanson. Bruce Light and Kent Kromwell
signed up from Laguna.
Because of President Lucia’s and Superintendent Wheeler’s foresight in signing up for the program now, WSCUHSD’s program will be partially subsidized by the California PUC through Strategic Energy Innovations of Marin www.seiinc.org. For realtors this means about half of the $31,000 budgeted for WSCUHSD’s 2003 Cool Schools program is already met. We also budgeted an additional $50,000 to help make energy-saving upgrades to school buildings and operations.
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Realtors help the schools and the planet, too
Ten real estate agents inaugurated
the partnership with the schools by pledging their support—many
for 1% of their commissions. Charter partners include: Pat Bocca, Bev
Buswell, Chris Cella, Cary Fargo, Michael Friedenberg, Kaye Henzerling,
Rosie Kehoe, Melody Montero, Stephen Liebling, Sandy Mays, Andrea Napoleon,
Doug Schaeffer, Norbert Tenenbaum, and Jeannie Woods. Lender Rob Bader
also signed up. Contact information
for these Cool Schools partners is available here.
To inform more real estate agents about the program and encourage
their support, we will make presentations at each Sebastopol office.
After we reach a critical mass in Sebastopol, we’ll head out to the
river and the coast. Eventually, we will extend our real estate agent/school
partnership model to other communities in Sonoma County and beyond.
If you would like to become a partner in the Cool Schools program, please
complete and submit
a pledge form.
Green
Schools? Cool Schools?
Green Schools is a name trademarked by the Alliance
to Save Energy for their Green Schools program, the one being
offered in WSCUHSD and other districts throughout the Bay Area. Cool Schools
is a program of the Climate Protection Campaign that includes the Green
Schools program.
Find out more about the Green Schools program.
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Analy students address |
We appreciate the special seed money from Western Sonoma County Rural Alliance that helped us start the Cool Schools program.
For more information about Cool Schools, please contact:
Paula Magyari 823-5267 paula@skymetrics.us
Ann Hancock 829-1224 ann@skymetrics.us
