The only sustainability tracking & benchmarking tool built for K-12 schools.
Helping you methodically create healthier, more sustainable, and equitable learning environments and school cultures.
Introducing
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Benchmark
Easily track, visualize and analyze your school's current levels of sustainability across 50+ metrics.
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Access Guidance
Access step-by-step instructions, educational resources, and activities to achieve your goals and activate student engagement.
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Connect
Connect with schools across the world to share ideas, best practices, and cost-saving measures.
"START will enable schools to create quantifiable change in the areas of climate and sustainability, health and wellness, equity and inclusion, and economic efficiency."
- Robert Watson, Founder of LEED™
Join the Peer-to-Peer Network
Connect with peers from other schools, access discussion forums, and find recommended resources to help you implement or teach sustainability.
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Whether you're a K-12 student, teacher, administrator, staff member, or district sustainability professional, the Green Schools Alliance can support and strengthen your sustainability action.
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As hubs of their communities, schools can increase community resilience, mitigate climate change, transform markets and policy, and prepare citizens to think and act in new and creative ways, so that present and future generations can thrive.
Testimonials
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"When the New York City Department of Education adopted its ambitious sustainability agenda, we needed to make a strong public statement about the importance of climate stewardship. The fact that the Alliance was created by schools and for schools made it the logical partner for recognizing our unique position as educators in this effort."
— John Shea, NYC DOE Division of School Facilities, NY
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"As the first off grid, solar powered elementary public school in the country, we have devoted significant resources to our having a zero carbon footprint. But we are small and remotely rural, serving communities on the Navajo Nation in Arizona and without the Alliance, which is founded by schools for schools, it is difficult to have the connections to learn from others and share what we have learned in the process. The Alliance also provides a common language for all schools seeking to be Green, giving us a platform for schools, rural as well as urban, to set and .achieve meaningful goals that make sense in our unique settings.”
— Mark Sorensen, President, STAR School, Flagstaff, Arizona
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"'Going green' means so many things to different people, and despite our genuine commitment to sustainability, we were having difficulty focusing our efforts. Working with the Alliance has allowed us to find a community of like-minded schools and set challenging, but reasonable, goals. The Alliance's suggested benchmarks lent credibility to our efforts with our parents and board and helped us hold ourselves accountable."
— Julian Bull, Headmaster Campbell Hall School, CA