Welcome to NYC Green Schools!
We are parents of the New York public school system. We’ve launched this blog to serve as a central online meeting place where New York City parents can get practical information about how to make their schools more green from changing the food on their lunch menus to getting rid of Styrofoam trays to recycling, gardening, and more. While individual schools are making tremendous progress on many of these issues, there is no place for parents to share what they’ve learned and exchange ideas. We hope this blog will do just that.
While we are excited by the prospect of parents taking the initiative to make their particular school more green, our real hope is that our blog will serve as a public forum where parents throughout the city can organize and act in unison to address the more intractable issues and problems facing our schools, which we can only hope to change as an united community. As our readership grows, we would like this blog to become a place of ideas, information, political action, and vision.
Most parents in the New York public school system don’t realize how much power they have to initiate change at their schools, especially when it comes to food and sustainability issues. With childhood obesity an epidemic and sustainable living an imperative as we move into the 21st century, as parents, we can’t afford not to act.
So please join us in our effort to make our city more green one school at a time. If enough parents do their part, we know the New York public school system, serving over 1 million students, can become an example to the rest of the country of the change that is possible. Let’s show our children that we really do care about the world they grow up in.
Elizabeth Puccini (Children’s Workshop School Parent)
Anisa Romero (East Village Community School Parent)