Updated 04/09/2009 05:10 PM
City Schools To Join Green School Alliance
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City schools are getting on board with the mayor's PlaNYC initiative.
Department of Education officials announced in Downtown Manhattan today that they are measuring energy consumption and carbon emissions from school buildings and taking steps to reduce them 30 percent by 2017.
Under the program, all students will be able to monitor their schools energy use online.
"If you make information transparent, the children know about it, they will talk about it - why haven't we met our targets, what are we doing?" said Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. "It'll make them more conscious, turning off lights in schools, other matters involving energy consumption. That's the way you change things."
City schools are now a part of the Green Schools Alliance, which was launched by 45 private schools in the wake of Bloomberg's PlaNYC announcement.