Friends schools have a special obligation to include environmental education in their programs in order to promote a sustainable future for all life. Our students should learn how they can best understand, preserve, and restore the natural processes, resources, and beauty so vital to the earth and to humankind's physical and spiritual health.

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friendscouncil.net

FEEN Group for sharing ideas and resources for environmental education in Friends schools.

friendscouncil.NET is an educational networking platform which includes discussion boards, videos, groups, personal comment walls, and friend connections. We've created an open group for each of our peer networks. It is our hope that these online dimensions will strengthen the network of support and collaboration across Friends education. Membership is required.

Go to www.friendscouncil.net to join the Friends Environmental Education Network (FEEN) group.

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Statement of Purpose

Drafted by the Friends Environmental Education Network

Click here to view the statement

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2013 FEEN Minute

Click here to view the minute

Clean Energy What You Need to Know Webinar Series

Designed for school administrators, facility directors, business managers and faculty, this webinar series focuses on the spectrum of energy options and challenges facing Friends Schools. They serve as both an introduction for those new to the issues related to transitioning away from fossil fuels as well as providing concrete recommendations for action. The following webinars were produced thanks to the generous support of the Tyson Memorial Fund. Webinars last approximately 1 hour.

• Optimizing Energy Assessment: Energy Benchmarking  and Reducing Energy Consumption
  Paul Spiegel, Practical Energy Solutions
• Create you own energy: Transforming Energy Expenses into Sustainability Engines
  (focus on solar, case study - Oakwood Friends with Ron Kamen, Earthkind Energy) 
• Efficient Heating and Cooling Systems   Paul Spiegel, Practical Energy Solutions
• Creating Energy Policies and Management Plan  Paul Spiegel, Practical Energy Solutions
• Electric Vehicles – is it time to transition? Focus on Sandy Spring School with Laura Miyoshi and Oakwood Friends with   Ron Kamen, Earthkind Energy

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Friends Caring for Each Other in Times of Extreme Weather: Disaster Preparation and Resilience Conference Presentations for Quaker Meetings and Schools

This conference was held at Friends Center on May 18, 2019. The program covered the following areas:

Resilience - Developing a School or Meeting Preparedness Plan – a step-by-step process for you to create your own pre-disaster plan to protect your building(s), resources and people.

Responding to disaster – how to approach the long-term recovery process for our Meetings, Friends schools, communities and individuals to achieve a new normal.

Emotional and Spiritual Care – exploring what it looks like to provide for spiritual needs in times of disaster

Spreading the word: A Media Toolkit to share your sustainability and clean energy stories!

As part of a program to support Friends schools transition to clean and renewable energy, we learned that sharing success stories is a key element to building the consensus needed for wider community action. We put together a Social Media Toolkit to help schools tell their story and amplify their example within the school community and beyond. Supported by the Tyson Memorial Fund.

Click here to access the Media Toolkit

Friends School Sustainability Survey

October 2015, download

Friends School Sustainability Survey

View the file: FriendsSchoolSurvey2015.FINAL DECEMBER 2015

 

Sustainability Starts with Us Now

October 7, 2015, download

For CFO's, Business and Facility Managers and other school stakeholders

Delaware Valley Friends School
Highlights of Presentations with contact and resources
View the file: Sustainability Begins With UsFinal-2

Squeaky Clean??

Toxic Schools: Are your cleaning and pest management practices safe for students and the environment?

Westtown convened a workshop on February 2, 2006 on the topic of toxins in the school environment. Schools use products in their cleaning and pest management practices which often contain toxic chemicals. Indoor air quality is a major concern. Increases in asthma, other respiratory illnesses, allergies and longer term risks for cancer and immunodeficiency diseases are common. How can schools provide a clean, healthy, pest-free environment and not put students at risk?

Find related links and Downloadable Resources from February 2006 workshop below.

Environmental Exposures to Toxins: Reasons for Concern

View the file: Greenflag IPM l…for concern

Green Flag Web Resource List on Integrated Pest Management

View the file: GreenFlag web IPMresources

Article: Growing up on pesticides

View the file: GREN FLAG Growi…c chemicals

Beyond Pesticides website & info

View the file: GreenFlagBeyond Pesticides

Be part of the Green Flag Program for Schools

Westtown School, as a participant in the Friends Environmental Educators Network, hosted a regional orientation to the Green Flag Program in June 2005. Green Flag orientation packets were made available at the 2005 October Heads of school gathering. This message board will contain information and downloadable documents about the areas addressed by the Green Flag Program and other topics related to greening Friends schools, for the benefit of participating schools near and far.

21st Century 3Rs

View the file: Report-RecyclingWkshop

About the Green Flag Program

View the file: AboutGreenFlag

Green Flag Survey

View the file: Green Flag survey

Office Supply Guide

View the file: Office Paper Re…cling Guide

Quaker Schools & the Environment, Reflections and Queries

View the file: Quakerschoolenvironment

Why Recycling is Good

View the file: Why Recycling is Good

 

Click here to view the archive.