Walking, bicycling, carpooling, and taking transit reduces air quality emissions and minimizes congestion. Climate change education makes a connection between personal and community transportation choices and climate impacts. Resources in this section address more facets of sustainability and climate change than transportation, including air and water quality, waste, and energy consumption.

Bay Area Resources:

• Protect Your Climate Curriculum (2012) - a comprehensive climate change curriculum for 4th and 5th grade students

• Speakers Bureau - brings experts to classrooms to educate students about local air quality and climate change issues

• Green Kids Conference - brings together junior scientists and innovators to share their environmental experiments and research at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus

• Green Careers Conference - a place for high school students to explore career pathways within the environmental sector

• SF Environment’s School Education Program - includes K-12 curriculum, presentations, field trip programs, and more

• Green Schools Initiative - helps parents, students, and teachers reduce their schools’ environmental footprint

• Pollution Punchcard Guidebook - tracks each time a student walks, bikes, or carpools to school

• Environmental Facts sheet - facts about automobile use, global warming, pollution, and more

• Green Team Curriculum - curriculum raising awareness on the value of choosing Green Ways to School

State and National Resources:

• Walk/Bike to School Savings Calculator - calculates the distance bicycled, fuel and money saved, and emissions reduced

• The Young Voices on Climate Change website - features a film series that profiles students for their low greenhouse gas lifestyles

• The Planet Protector Academy -  a Canadian program focused on behavior change and educational outcomes that empowers students to become community leaders on transportation and energy use issues