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Earth Day Canada, with financial support from the Toyota Canada Foundation, has launched the 2012 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program to recognize and cultivate tomorrow's environmental leaders. This year, the Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program will reward 20 graduating high school and Cégep students across Canada with $5 000 scholarships for their environmental community service, extracurricular and volunteer activities, and academic excellence. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2012.

For more information please visit www.earthday.ca/scholarship.

St. Thomas Times-Journal / Patrick Brennan / 18 November 2011

There's a two-wheel revolution under way at Mitch Hepburn Public School.

Thanks to Green Communities Canada, Share the Road Cycling Coalition and Elgin St. Thomas Public Health, cycling to school is undergoing a revival at the school.

The Wheeling to School project, which targets students from Grades 4 to 8, is based on looking at the potential barriers families face in biking to school and, instead, supporting it as an option for getting to class everyday.

Darrell Jutzi, a public health nurse at Elgin St. Thomas Public Health, said the project builds on an active and safe travel-to-school program. Prior to this, there was no real effort to encourage students to ride bikes to school. "Cycling to school had not been promoted in schools to this extent," he admitted.

Hepburn was selected as one of four schools in the province for the pilot project by Green Communities Canada. The province supports the program with a grant from its Healthy Communities fund.

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Since 2002, CA-CP has provided the Campus Carbon Calculator™ as a free, comprehensive, transparent, and customizable solution to measuring and analyzing institutional greenhouse gas emissions. The most widely-used tool in US higher education for tracking campus carbon footprints and modeling emissions reduction scenarios, the Calculator has three modules that walk users through the process of strategically reducing institutional emissions.

CBC News / 18 May 2011

The Toronto District School Board and AMP Solar Group Inc. have teamed up to install solar panels on hundreds of school rooftops in a deal that could be worth $1.1 billion in green electricity generation over 20 years.

The TDSB said late Wednesday it signed a deal with AMP, which will build, install and maintain solar photovoltaic panels on as many as 450 school rooftops or 12 million square feet of roof space.

The board said there is no cost to the TDSB and that AMP will be responsible for all project costs. The panels will go only on roofs that can support them, and in return the schools will get $120 million worth of roof repairs.

This is seen as a boon for the school board which is in need of some $3 billion to repair its crumbling buildings — everything from new roofs to boilers.

[ FULL ARTICLE HERE ]

Kingston Whig-Standard / Tori Stafford / 20 April 2011

They say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, but for local students involved in a partnership with Living Cities, it's what will replace the grass that truly embodies the term "green".

Living Cities, a Kingston-based business focused on offering urban gardening services, takes underused space and develops closed-loop agriculture systems that work with composting and waste diversion, rainwater collection and growing produce.

Begun in 2008, Living Cities is now partnering with local high schools to bring its mandate into the classroom.

WWF Canada-Loblaws / Press Release / 17 January 2011

WWF-Canada and Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw) are proud to announce the second installment in WWF's Green CommUnity School Grants Program. This round of funding awards $100,000 in grants to elementary and secondary schools across Canada, supporting student engagement in green initiatives.

The WWF-Canada Green CommUnity School Grants Program will award grants totalling $600,000 to Canadian schools over the course of three years.

Recorder & Times / Steve Pettibone / 29 October 2010

On the heels of the announcement of the Sunnyville solar-panel installation course soon to be offered at the city's St. Lawrence College campus, the college has announced the pending implementation of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels at its Kingston and Brockville campuses.

Pending approval from the Ontario Power Authority, construction on the project -- operated through the Feed-in-Tariff program -- will commence shortly, St. Lawrence president Chris Whitaker told The Recorder and Times Thursday.