Amos Green

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bjbj Earlier this year, on Earth Day 2011, we announced plans to create a Green Ribbon Schools initiative. With help from the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Council for Environmental Quality, we set out to develop a new award program that would recognize schools that were the very best at three things First, reducing impact on the environment and conserving energy, second, providing healthy learning spaces and encouraging healthy habits for their students and teachers, and third, offering a high-quality environmental education. Our goal is to encourage all of our nation s schools and communities to work towards a future where school facilities have no environmental impact, make a positive effect on students health-- and enable students to become environmentally literate citizens who are well prepared for the 21st century economy. We plan to announce the final program details in the coming months and to make our first Green Ribbon Schools recognition-awards by the end of the school year. All summer, we have been working hard to refine the program, and today I m happy to report that we now have a wealth of information to share. I encourage state education officials and science officers as well as principals, teachers and community leaders -- to check out our program information on the blog on the Department of Education s website. You ll find details about eligibility, the nomination process, criteria, and much more information that can help states and communities to get started right now in identifying their best candidates for the Green Ribbon Schools award. With your enthusiasm and your commitment, we are absolutely confident that we will have an excellent slate of winners in our first year great schools that can be examples of the best and most innovative ways to reduce environmental impact, create healthy learning spaces, and teach environmental literacy. I look forward to your joining us. Thank you so much for your interest in the Green Ribbon Schools program. gd>m :pZ4 [Content_Types].xml #!MB ;c=1 _rels/.rels theme/theme/themeManager.xml sQ}# theme/theme/theme1.xml G$$DA : BR {i5@R V*[_X ,l\Y Ssd+r] 5\|E Vky- V4Ej 6NGU s?^V *<")QH @\&> 7;wP EBU` 5<V8 LStf+] C9P^ wB>VD GGHPXNT, /M,W m2iU [[v _Xtl theme/theme/_rels/themeManager.xml.rels 6?$Q K(M&$R(.1 [Content_Types].xmlPK _rels/.relsPK theme/theme/themeManager.xmlPK theme/theme/theme1.xmlPK theme/theme/_rels/themeManager.xml.relsPK <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <a:clrMap xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" bg1="lt1" tx1="dk1" bg2="lt2" tx2="dk2" accent1="accent1" accent2="accent2" accent3="accent3" accent4="accent4" accent5="accent5" accent6="accent6" hlink="hlink" folHlink="folHlink"/> Earlier this year, on Earth Day 2011, we announced plans to create a Green Ribbon Schools initiative Authorised User Normal.dotm Joshua Hoover Microsoft Macintosh Word U.S. Department of Education Earlier this year, on Earth Day 2011, we announced plans to create a Green Ribbon Schools initiative Title <b:Sources xmlns:b="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliography" xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliography" SelectedStyle="/APA.XSL" StyleName="APA"/> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <ds:datastoreItem ds:itemID="{CE5EABE5-BE21-8246-B43D-8D6BC763DA9C}" xmlns:ds="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/customXml"><ds:schemaRefs><ds:schemaRef ds:uri="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliography"/></ds:schemaRefs></ds:datastoreItem> Microsoft Word 97-2004 Document NB6W Word.Document.8