Students in JoAnne Brown's science classes at Olympus Jr. High are participating in the national Lexus Eco Challenge, which invites students to develop environmental solutions in their own community. This year's participating teams are taking on air pollution, clean transportation, biofuel, and ...
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Help us keep the air clean for our students
You can reduce air pollutants with the turn of a key. Although it may seem like your individual effort to reduce emissions won’t have an impact, the collective actions of each person can help our students breathe easy. The bulk of wintertime inversion pollution comes from mobile sources ...
Here’s how you can help our students breathe easy (infographic)
Some folks enjoy summer, others prefer a snowy winter; but there’s complete consensus on at least one weather condition: valley inversions. Inversions are an unpleasant reality everyone, especially young children, senior citizens and those with respiratory conditions. Although the issue occurs on ...
What is the Student Neighborhood Access Program?
Walking or biking to school has many more advantages than saving money on gasoline. More walking to and from school means cleaner air, less traffic congestion, healthy habits, and support for infrastructure improvements. It can also translate to a deeper sense of community for neighborhood ...