Introduction and Background

GreenLearning is on a mission to engage youth in innovative educational experiences that empower them to create sustainable, prosperous and resilient communities starting where they live.

Since 1984, we have been delivering free education programs about energy, climate change and the green economy. Almost 750,000 educators have explored GreenLearning’s website since 2010, with a reach of 11,250,000 youth. Youth ages 6-18 explore topics and demonstrate their learning through hands-on action projects that inspire creativity and confidence, and create a measurable environmental impact.

We continue to expand our educator and student network. Each year, we directly engage over 4,000 educators and 12,000 learners through workshops, webinars, and our annual eco-challenges. GreenLearning provides over 150 free lessons, activities, online simulation learning tools and instructional videos to support our programs.

The demand from educators for training and professional development and in-class sessions to improve their capacity to deliver solutions-oriented climate and energy education, continues to grow.  We would like to respond to this demand to support more educators and their students.

For example, for $10,000 we can offer our Climate Champions program for one school board:

GreenLearning will offer educator webinars and virtual hands-on in-class sessions for youth that bring our programs to life. We’ll deliver six webinars and numerous virtual youth sessions. Educators can pick and choose the ones that work for their curriculum or eco-club.  Educators that participate in the Energy Revealed sessions receive an energy kit with watt meters to provide hands-on learning for understanding energy usage. All the virtual youth sessions are designed to be hands-on, interactive and solution focused. We help youth brainstorm ideas to take action and they are encouraged to complete an eco-challenge. Each year we review and showcase the eco-challenge submissions and provide a cash prize for the top three schools in each challenge.

“GreenLearning’s Climate Champions program directly supports HDSB’s commitments to sustainability, environmental education, and climate action. This program offers a wide range of engaging, curriculum-connected learning opportunities spanning multiple grade levels and topics, making it  accessible and adaptable for all of our schools.” – Rachel Irwin, Halton District School Board