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WORKING DRAFT
Rhode Island Greenhouse Gas Project
Existing Education Initiatives
Supporting the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Organization
Apeiron Institute for
Environmental Living
Contact
www.apeiron.org
401-397-3430
[email protected]
Audubon Society of RI
www.asri.org
Env. Ed. Ctr
Anne DiMonti, CoDirector of Ed.
[email protected]
Rebecca Royal, Ed.
Specialist
[email protected]
www.brown.edu/researc
h/envstudies_theses/ghg
/index.shtml
Harold Ward
[email protected]
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Brown University
Narragansett Electric
www.narragansettelectri
c.com/inside/edsvcs/ind
ex.htm
401-748-7000
NEED- Mary Sprull
1-800-875-5029
[email protected]
New England Gas
Company
www.negasco.com/abou
t/education.php
Communications Dept.
401-272-5040 x2076
Christopher Medici
Dir. Of Communications
401-574-2068
[email protected]
Program Description
The Institute is open to the public and it features
exhibits that detail various technologies: energyefficient design, electricity, heating, non-toxic and
natural materials, ecological waste treatment
systems, conservation, recycled-materials, and
organic gardening. Moreover, many organizations
run educational programs at the Institute offering a
variety of programs and workshops for students,
homebuilders, and the general public that are
designed to promote environmental stewardship.
Environmental Education Center, teacher resource
center (prop boxes, teaching kits, curriculum guides,
field guides, children's storybooks, textbooks on
environmental topics), teacher workshops, school
outreach programs, summer camps, after school and
scout programs, and field explorations.
RI GHG Emissions Inventory and climate change in
RI educational resources including: a study guide
(questions and prompts that provide ways of
examining the inventory); lesson plans/links for
earth sciences, history/social science, biology,
chemistry, and physics; other educational databases;
general background on global warming; individual
choices-how you can influence change; and
alternatives- what can be done in the future.
Free educational materials and in-class programs on
electricity safety and basic electricity concepts, and
energy: how it's made, the need to conserve it, and
how its use impacts the environment.
NEED- National Energy Education Development
Project- workshops for RI educators. Narragansett
Electric provides curriculum guides, correlation to
RI Education Standards, and hands-on classroom
kits to be used to teach the science of energy and
energy management. It also helps to defray the cost
of enrollment for educators attending the workshop.
Speakers' program- employees promote awareness
about the properties of natural gas and its
distribution basics, and to promote safe natural gas
usage. Free materials provided: safety brochures,
bill inserts, school materials, promotional items.
WORKING DRAFT
Northeast Energy
Efficiency Partnerships
www.neep.org/policy_a
nd_outreach/index.html
Julie Michals, Policy
Outreach Manager
[email protected]
RIDEM
www.dem.state.ri.us
Ai r Resources
401-222-2808
OTCA
222-6822
SPP
222-3434
RIDOT Intermodal
Planning
www.dot.ri.gov/webtran
/index.html
401-222-4203
www.ripta.com
Karen Mensel
Dir. Of Marketing and
Communications
[email protected]
www.ripuc.ri.gov
401-941-4500
Terry Mercer, Chief of
PR 941-4885 x148
Leslee Clement, Chief
Consumer Agent 9414885 x110
www.rirrc.org
401-942-1430
[email protected]
RIPTA
RI Public Utilities
Commission
RIRRC
General and regulatory outreach- broadening the
familiarity of policy makers with the concepts of
market transformation for energy efficiency by:
updating and completing additional economic
analyses for NEEP's regional initiatives,
maintaining an up-to-date summary of initiative
accomplishments and results, serving as a resource
to regional policy makers regarding the benefits of
energy efficiency and regulatory initiatives, holding
workshops on key policy topics, and developing
presentations and topical papers on key issues.
Office of Air Resources- ozone alerts, daily
forecasts from April through September, health
values chart (air quality rating, air quality index, 8hour ozone concentration), health effects chart
(ozone rating, adverse health effects, ways to
protect your health), description of ozone, and tips
to help reduce ozone pollution.
Office of Technical and Customer AssistancePollution Prevention program for businesses and
why should you care about preventing waste?
Brochure
Office of Strategic Planning and Policy- Earth Day,
Used Oil Recycling Program (purpose, recycling
process, how to recycle, where to recycle), GHG
process, PAYT
Extensive web site about biking opportunities in RI
and other alternatives to automotive transportation.
Park n' Rides, Ozone Alert Days (free bus service),
and Rack n' Ride. Ozone days are publicized by a
proper name, an ID system similar to the one used
by the National Weather Service for hurricanes.
Provides energy saving tips from the U.S. Dept. of
Energy and American Gas Association. Also
provides water conservation tips.
Teachers' resource guide (grades 4-8) and
brochures: Reducing Waste- The Basics, Waste
Reduction Shopping Tips, Stop Unwanted Mail,
Composting Made Easy, Composting Bins Dirt
Cheap, The Problem with Plastic Bags, Presents that
Preserve, What and How to Recycle, Where do my
Recyclables Go?, Reducing and Recycling in the
Workplace, and School Recycling Poster.
WORKING DRAFT
RISEO
www.riseo.state.ri.us
Janice McClanaghan
401-222-3370
[email protected]
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RI Statewide Planning
www.planning.ri.gov/tra
nsportation/default.htm
Katherine Trapani
[email protected]
.us
www.rogerwilliamspark
zoo.org
Gerry Dichiara 401-7853510 x358
Donna Salvas 785-3810
x351
Roger Williams Park
Zoo
Save the Bay
Sierra Club of RI
URI College of the
Environment and Life
Sciences (CELS)
www.savebay.org
Jim Lappert
Dir. Of Education
[email protected]
John Martin
Dir. Of Marketing and
Communications
[email protected]
www.sierraclubri.org
401-521-4737
[email protected]
Barry Schiller,
Transportation
[email protected]
Brad Marston, global
warming
[email protected]
Katie Murray, sprawl
[email protected]
www.uri.edu/cels/
401-874-2957
Cooperative Extension
Ed. Ctr. 874-2900
[email protected]
Sustainable Comm. Init.
874-4947
[email protected]
RI Residents' Guide to Renewable Energy and
Green-e- a voluntary certification program for
renewable energy that is supported by the RI
Renewable Energy Fund. Green-e has a
comprehensive consumer education and outreach
plan containing the following: a green power
brochure, a customer pledge card, a website, a
power point presentation, and partner organizations.
A Citizen's Guide to Transportation DecisionMaking
Provides various educational programs tailored to
preschoolers, elementary and middle school
students, scouts, home school programs, family
programs, high school students, and professional
development activities. Provides internships in
environmental education for college/university
students and graduate students. Provides teacher
training seminars and adult education. Has a zoomobile that travels to schools, community centers,
and retirement homes spreading the message of
conservation of our natural world.
New education center will educate visitors about
Narragansett Bay, its watershed, be a point of public
access to the Bay and foster personal connections
with the Bay. The new center will be on a
revitalized brownfield site.
Provides a comprehensive explanation of various
local environmental issues: transportation, sprawl,
Quonset Point, global warming, Central Landfill,
globalization, and how to take action on each issue.
CELS provides various outreach programs:
cooperative extension (extending University-based
research for the benefit of families, farms and the
environment), URI Cooperative Extension
Education Center- a 1-stop educational facility
offering programs and resources on
environmentally-sound home and garden practices,
as well as food safety, and URI Sustainable
Communities Initiative. The URIde Community
Bike Share Program on the Kingston campus is part
of the Sustainable Communities Initiative.
WORKING DRAFT
U.S. Dept. of Energy
Boston Regional Office
Northeast Energy
Education Net Center
(NEEN)
www.eere.energy.gov/br
o/educ.html
www.eere.energy.gov/br
o/neen
Donna Gindes
617-565-9714
[email protected].
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U.S. Dept. of Energy
Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Educational Programs
www.eere.energy.gov/e
ducation/energy_educati
on.html#us
[email protected]
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www.epa.gov/region1/e
ducation/index.html
Kristen Conroy
617-918-1069
[email protected]
U.S. EPA Region 1
(New England)
The Net Center aims to provide the best educational
resource information available to the public, private,
and non-profit stakeholders. Contains: links to
energy and technologies (biomass, electricity,
environmental effects, fossil fuels, general,
hydroelectric, hydrogen, fuel cells, photosynthesis,
plasma physics and fusion, recycling, solar, trash to
energy conservation, and wind); educational
resources (audiovisual materials; catalogs, books,
activities and energy-friendly products; energy
education programs and initiatives; energy lesson
plans; energy-related exhibits and tours; other
energy-related resources; state contacts for
education, energy and the environment; utilities
contacts); grant resources; scholarships; and games.
Various links containing energy science projects
and activities for K-12, energy lesson plans,
curriculum, and educational materials for K-12 and
higher education, and web resources.
Pen Pal Partners for the Environment- a classroom
to classroom collaborative learning experience for
students in which classes in different parts of the
country can communicate with one another on a
broad array of environmental interests.
Teacher resource center- curricula, earth artists
program, speakers, videos, New England state
directories (state environmental offices,
science/nature centers, museums, etc.),
regional/national programs (easy way for K-12
educators to dialogue with one another)
Other resources: Educational Resources Library,
video lending library, and web sites for global
climate change.
National EPA Office of Environmental Education
also contains curriculum and useful educational
links.
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