Cool School Challenge
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, in partnership with Puget Sound Energy and Mike Town of Redmond High School, has developed the Cool School Challenge, a climate education program designed to engage students and teachers in practical strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Inspired by the U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement, the Cool School Challenge teaches students how to assess their school's greenhouse gas emissions, and then pledge to reduce those emissions by a certain percentage by a certain time. Through improved energy efficiency, reduced consumption, increased recycling and changes in transportation behaviors, Challenge participants learn how simple actions, taken together, can create a climate of change.
