Get Your Class Virtually Marching!

Have all of your students sign up and challenge them to get as many people as they know (family, friends, churches, etc) to sign up with them. Make it a challenge in your school. Joining the Virtual March is the first step to joining the movement.

Encourage Your Politicians to Take Action

Has your members of the parliament joined the march? If not, have your students write to them encouraging him/her to take local action to reduce your cities carbon emissions. Try to set up a class meeting at City Hall.

Watch An Inconvenient Truth

Encourage administrators to make watching An Inconvenient Truth and Too Hot Not to Handle required viewing, the way it already is in Sweden and Norway, and make Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You! required reading at your school.

Replace School Lightbulbs

Start a campaign to replace all light bulbs in your school with compact fluorescents. Have students work with local businesses to get them donated or hold a bake sale, etc. to raise money to buy them. Set a goal and calculate the emissions saved.

No Idling!

Start a no idling rule in the carpool lane at your school.

Recycle

Make sure your class has recycling bins for paper and plastics. Have your class do a field trip to follow where the recycling ends up. Does your school do double-sided printing?

Cut Back on Paper

Encourage administrators to only purchase post consumer recycled paper products (including toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, etc.) at your school. Set a goal to increase it. Make a rule that all multi-page documents are run double-sided. Keep looking for ways to eliminate paper.

Educate Your Parents

Take the issue of global warming to PTA meetings to educate the parents on the urgency of this issue.

Use Timers

Have your school set lights and air conditioners on efficiency timers.

Take Action at Home

Give your students the take action sheet on our site to take home and implement with their parents. Make it a contest to see which student can encourage the most change in their home.

No Waste at School Meals and Events

Reduce use of juice boxes, water bottles, plastic bags, etc. in your cafeteria, in your lunch box and at school parties.

Plant Trees

Have a tree planting day at your school. Plant trees that are local to your area that will reduce carbon dioxide and create clean air to breathe.

Conduct a School Energy Audit

Have your utility company come do an energy audit on the school.

Replace Oil Burning Furnaces

Find out what year your school’s oil burning furnace was put in. If it is over 5 years old, a new one would substantially reduce carbon emissions. Plan a fundraiser to help pay for it.

Spread the News

Find a news article on our site about global warming and email it to five people.

Start a Club

Start a global warming club at your school and set goals to curb your school's energy use.

Speak Out

Run for student government on a global warming platform. Challenge another school to match what you are doing to curb global warming emissions.

Reward the Use of Hybrids

Institute “Good Citizen” premium parking spaces for teachers, parents and students that drive hybrid cars.

Audit Student's Energy Use

Have all students conduct their own personal energy audit to figure out their daily carbon footprint and set goals to reduce it. Celebrate the student who reduces their emissions the most at the end of the school year.

Carpool

Make carpooling a priority. Do a survey and measure what is already being done to set goals to improve it. Announce the progress at the final school assembly.

Source: Stopglobalwarming.org