On Saturday, March 28th, 2009 students from across Alameda County came together to share innovative waste reduction strategies that they have developed on their middle school and high school campuses. Nearly 40 students representing 8 schools presented 30 minute workshops designed to spread their best practices in student environmental leadership to other schools.

If you attended this institute, please complete an online evaluation of the day- Click here

General session resources:

• Chris Jordan's photographs can be found here.
• Deborah Moore's powerpoint from the Green Schools Initiative can be found here.
• Mark Spencer's "State of the World" powerpoint "In Your Lifetime: We Are Not Yeast
• Special Event Best Practices Guide from StopWaste.Org
• Recycling Guide from StopWaste.Org
• Nate Ivy's Chavez Day-Earth Day presentation is here.

Student workshop resources:

• Amercan High School's "Science Club Recycling Team" presentation
• Irvington High School's "Green Leadership" presentation
• Kennedy High School's "Keen to be Green" presentation
• Sample student presentation agenda planning tool

Networking Guests:

• Sher Moua from Youth Service California invited students grades 8-10 to apply to represent Region 4 on a statewide youth led service-learning commission called CATALYST. Click here for more information and a CATALYST application.
• Caroline Sandofir from EarthTeam invited students to consider participating in EarthTeam's regional environmental leadership opportunities like restoration projects, The Green News- student generated environmental media, and a screening of the movie Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home on Thursday April 9th. Click here for more details.
• Sigrid Mueller from Save the Bay invited students and teachers to participate in Save the Bay's excellent education programs.

More materials and summaries of workshops will be posted as they become available.

Agenda: