Pepsi Selects CCSE’s Green Learning Adventure for $250,000 Refresh Project Competition

Thursday, 04 November 2010 10:16 Chuck Colgan

Vote for CCSE, Pepsi Challenge With steep funding cuts to our educational system, field trips and other enrichment activities that make learning come alive are nearly nonexistent. Would you consider helping CCSE help fill this void by writing about our current effort to raise funds for green learning? At the very least, we would appreciate your votes!

Date:	Nov. 1-30, 2010
What:	Pepsi Refresh Project Pepsi is giving away more than a million dollars each month to fund ideas that can move our communities forward and change the world through an online voting process that everyone can participate in.
CCSE Project:	Help save the environment - Engage kids in green learning!
Interviews:	Andrea Cook, CCSE climate change program manager Irene M. Stillings, CCSE executive director

Background: To meet the demand from teachers for information on the environment that is hands-on, inspiring and appropriate for elementary and middle school students, CCSE piloted the Green Learning Adventure during the 2009-10 school year to a variety of schools and programs serving a diverse cross section of San Diego County, reaching more than 8,000 students and adults, and we found that it resonated with everyone very well.

Green Learning Adventure Goals

Engage children and their families in sustainability
Foster better stewards of the environment
Inspire the next generation to follow green career paths
Train teachers in sustainability concepts
Reduce energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and waste

HELP SUPPORT FREE EDUCATION
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Text (104095) to 73774 (normal text messaging rates apply)
Go to http://www.energycenter.org/vote and create an account
Go to http://www.energycenter.org/vote and log in via Facebook

Vote each way, every day during November to cast your 90 votes!

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Pepsi Selects CCSE’s Green Learning Adventure for $250,000 Refresh Project Competition

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