You teach at the School of Environmental Science in Apple Valley, MN. What is that, exactly?
SES is an optional high school in a large, public suburban school district. Think of us as a magnet school. Students can elect to attend SES for their junior and senior years. We have four large ...
November’s Spotlight of the Month: SES
Posted on October 31st, 2007
For November, we’re shining our light on the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley, Minnesota. To get the scoop on this cool school we hung out with teacher Molly Sheeley Melton to find out how learning has no borders, zoos aren’t just for animals and even Prom can be recycled.
You teach at the School of Environmental Science in Apple Valley, MN. What is that, exactly?
SES is an optional high school in a large, public suburban school district. Think of us as a magnet school. Students can elect to attend SES for their junior and senior years. We have four large ...
You teach at the School of Environmental Science in Apple Valley, MN. What is that, exactly?
SES is an optional high school in a large, public suburban school district. Think of us as a magnet school. Students can elect to attend SES for their junior and senior years. We have four large ...
October’s Spotlight of the Month : Jordan Browning
Posted on October 1st, 2007
For October we caught up with Jordan Browning at Bowdoin College in Maine to talk about high school activism, rising sea levels and the business side of greenhouse gases.
"Perhaps the biggest reason behind my initial interest in environmental matters was my upbringing. I grew up in Los Angeles, a city that many recognize for its connection with Hollywood, as well as for its smog and urban sprawl. As I grew older and being fortunate enough to participate in outdoor activities like camping and canoeing, I began to explore the relationship between Los Angeles’ urban and natural environments. It seemed to me as if the city had fallen out of a delicate ...
"Perhaps the biggest reason behind my initial interest in environmental matters was my upbringing. I grew up in Los Angeles, a city that many recognize for its connection with Hollywood, as well as for its smog and urban sprawl. As I grew older and being fortunate enough to participate in outdoor activities like camping and canoeing, I began to explore the relationship between Los Angeles’ urban and natural environments. It seemed to me as if the city had fallen out of a delicate ...
September’s Spotlight of the Month: David Kroodsma
Posted on September 1st, 2007
David Kroodsma recently finished bicycling from California to the tip of South America to raise awareness about global warming. Today, David’s back on the road with his organization, Ride for Climate USA to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other solutions to global warming. For September, we spoke with David at a pit-stop in Bend, Oregon to chat about rising temperatures, the road less traveled and why the latest Beatles invasion isn't such a good thing.
Ride For Climate founders Bill Bradlee and David Kroodsma (right) in midtown Manhattan
For David Kroodsma, “bicycling is the best way to cross the country. You’re going ten miles per hour, you stop ...
Ride For Climate founders Bill Bradlee and David Kroodsma (right) in midtown Manhattan
For David Kroodsma, “bicycling is the best way to cross the country. You’re going ten miles per hour, you stop ...
August’s Spotlight of the Month: Nellie Reid
Posted on July 1st, 2007
For August, greenissexy caught up with LA-based architect Nellie Reid to learn more about green buildings, Sin City and why the glass is half full.
What led you to become a green architect?
It's more about the green and less about the architecture for me. Most people become architects because they are drawn to the aesthetic side of it. I came into architecture to fix it. I was always amazed at the lack of consideration for environmental and health concerns related to the way we design buildings.
Who or what is your greenspiration?
The ocean, Rachel Carson and ...
What led you to become a green architect?
It's more about the green and less about the architecture for me. Most people become architects because they are drawn to the aesthetic side of it. I came into architecture to fix it. I was always amazed at the lack of consideration for environmental and health concerns related to the way we design buildings.
Who or what is your greenspiration?
The ocean, Rachel Carson and ...
July’s Spotlight of the Month: Alison Ramsay
Posted on June 27th, 2007
For July, we caught up with Alison Ramsay in New Zealand and asked her to tell us about organic farming, sampling 198 types of apples and ridding her town of plastic bags.
"I guess I always was an environmentalist, greenie, hippy, eco-warrior (whatever you like to call it) at heart. I grew up in a small community in Northern Canada where the air, water, and forest was clean and abounded in great, vast, stealth. I didn’t even know what environmentalism was really, and didn’t realize there were any problems with the state of the planet until… ...
"I guess I always was an environmentalist, greenie, hippy, eco-warrior (whatever you like to call it) at heart. I grew up in a small community in Northern Canada where the air, water, and forest was clean and abounded in great, vast, stealth. I didn’t even know what environmentalism was really, and didn’t realize there were any problems with the state of the planet until… ...
June’s Spotlight of the Month: Angela McKinney
Posted on May 1st, 2007
How can you be a green role model to the little ones? Angela McKinney speaks on green motherhood and what it's like to be a Doula.
"Each weekday morning, you’ll find me slipping my two-year-old son into his bike trailer, buckling him in and hitting the road for a full hour-long cycle from home to daycare and on to work. People always ask me why I don’t buy a car and make my life easier. But every morning as I pedal along, I remind myself that I am doing something more valuable than a simple ...
"Each weekday morning, you’ll find me slipping my two-year-old son into his bike trailer, buckling him in and hitting the road for a full hour-long cycle from home to daycare and on to work. People always ask me why I don’t buy a car and make my life easier. But every morning as I pedal along, I remind myself that I am doing something more valuable than a simple ...
May’s Spotlight of the Month: Steve Fish
Posted on April 1st, 2007
Steve Fish, of Left Feet Shoe Company, bares his sole to green is sexy...
Steve, how did you decide to open an ethical shoe store?
As a long time vegetarian gone vegan I could no longer live with the contradiction of wearing animal leather. But when I set out to find alternatives for myself here in Canada I discovered that the options were sparse so I did a little research and found that my fellow veg’ns were feeling the same way. My day job wasn’t a keeper and I ...
Steve, how did you decide to open an ethical shoe store?
As a long time vegetarian gone vegan I could no longer live with the contradiction of wearing animal leather. But when I set out to find alternatives for myself here in Canada I discovered that the options were sparse so I did a little research and found that my fellow veg’ns were feeling the same way. My day job wasn’t a keeper and I ...
