Green Ambassadors

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ECHS’ award-winning Green Ambassadors program is a class, as well as an after-school club and extracurricular program that teaches youth about environmental issues facing the planet, and challenges them to find solutions and strategies to address these kinds of issues.  The Green Ambassadors curriculum is way for students in school to start working on solving some of our world’s environmental problems.

As Green Ambassadors, students learn about green solutions like systems thinking, composting, water conservation, organic food production, and green living to ensure our youth can live a life without damaging the environment. The students use what they have learned to put on events that inspire their communities to become part of the green solutions listed above. These are called “earth positive” events.

Earth positive events are advertised in local calendars and on community bulletin boards.  Parents, peers, and neighbors are all invited.  Specially trained Green Ambassador interns plan each event.

Green Ambassadors apply what they have learned about sustainable living to create an event filled with informative and fun activities.  They create, “how to” films, photo exhibits, marketing materials, and games.  Students also create earth positive slide show presentations, which highlight actions individuals can take at home or in their community to help protect the environment.  At the events, Green Ambassadors fundraise by selling “earth friendly” solutions such as canteens, composters, and reusable bags.

Green Ambassadors are also trained to work with representatives from newspapers, television stations and other media.  In addition, they learn how to write press releases and blogs.

As 10th-graders, ECHS students concurrently enroll at Los Angeles Trade Technical College to receive college credit for taking the Green Ambassador class.

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