Transportation

School greening should expand beyond the property of the school to be a take-home message – literally! How students and staff get to and from school is an essential component of school greening. Well-developed school transportation plans should increase the number of children walking or biking to school, decreasing traffic and emissions. This is also much healthier for the children, discouraging obesity and getting them outdoors. The exhaust from idling school buses and private vehicles contains harmful substances in the form of particle pollution and poses an unnecessary health risk for children, drivers, and the community at large. Compounded with health hazards, idling wastes fuel and adds carbon and pollutants to the atmosphere. For children who are out of walking distance, bus policy should be modified to make the ride as clean and healthy as possible.

• Transportation
• The Green School Bus: Action Plan to Green Your Transportation - Student Action Plan
• No Idling
• No Idling - Background
• Climate Change Doesn’t Idle, You Shouldn’t Either: Action Plan to Stop Bus Idling – Student Action Plan
• Don’t Be Idle—Take Action to Prevent Diesel School Bus Idling – Lesson Plan
• The Asian Brown Cloud - Lesson Plan
• Brown Skies in Mexico City - Lesson Plan
• Idlers, Please Stop Your Engine - Lesson Plan
• Please Do Not Make Us Cough, Turn Your Engine Off - Lesson Plan
• Ready, Set, Stop Idling - Lesson Plan
• The 6 Major Air Pollutants - Power Point (LP Supplement)