In This Issue:

• The Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools
• Parents Join HSC Field Trip to Innovative Schools
• Healthy and High Performing Schools Update
• HSC on the Road
• Cooking Up Change Winner on Spatulatta.com

The Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools

The office phones keep ringing with requests for HSC's new Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools, the FREE booklet and CD-Rom filled with practical advice and resources to help schools adopt cleaning programs that encourage the use of green products, equipment and practices. We've even received requests from South Africa and Australia!

Stay tuned for more: In December we'll launch a new Green Clean website featuring a blog and interactive activities.

Order the Guide (up to 10 copies per person) »

The Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools made its debut during the ISSA/Interclean USA tradeshow, an opportunity for cleaning manufacturers and distributors to learn about new products and standards. Click here to watch a video of HSC Executive Director Rochelle Davis discussing the guide at ISSA/Interclean USA.

Learn about partnership opportunities available to corporations and professional associations »

HSC Field Trip to Innovative Schools

Students at McAuliffe Elementary School show off their salad bar

Buses were rolling Nov. 16 as more than 100 parents joined HSC on a tour of three Chicago schools to see first hand the types of changes that are being made to improve student health.

Participants met principals, students and teachers engaged in innovative physical activity, nutrition education and school food programs at James C. Blaine School, Ellen Mitchell School and McAuliffe Elementary School.

Check HSC's website for more photos from the event next week!

The school tour was co-spnsored by: Blaine PTA, Casa Aztlan, Healthy Schools Campaign, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Logal Square Neighborhood Association, Pilsen Alliance, POWER_PAC, Southwest Women Working Together, West Town Leadership United.

Healthy and High Performing Schools Update

New Training Programs
HSC has received funding from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation to provide eight training sessions in 2007 for school administrators and design professionals interested in building healthy and energy-efficient schools.

Study Finds Green Schools Cost Effective
A national study on green schools (PDF) released by Capital E, a consulting firm specializing in clean energy technical assistance, found that green schools save 33 percent more on energy and water costs than conventional schools. The report was sponsored by American Federation of Teachers, the American Institute of Architects, the American Lung Association, the Federation of American Scientists, and the U.S. Green Building Council.

HSC on the Road

Upcoming
Dec. 7 - HSC is hosting a Green Clean Leadership Luncheon to recognize the commitment of the national education organizations that are working with HSC to distribute the Quick and Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools.

Dec. 8 - HSC Executive Director Rochelle Davis and Steve Ashkin are conducting a workshop on green cleaning in schools at the U.S. EPA Tools for Schools National Symposium.

Recent Travels
HSC Chicago Project Director Guillermo Gomez attended the annual meeting of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Oct. 25-Oct. 27 in North Carolina with HSC community partners Jovita Flores (Little Village Environmental Justice Organization) and Idida Perez (West Town Leadership United).

As part of the meeting, they had the opportunity to meet with Dr. David Schwartz, director of the National Institutes of Health. The HSC partners expressed concern that NIH has discontinued NIEHS’ Environmental Justice program and will no longer earmark funds specifically for environmental justice projects.

Guillermo Gomez and Idida Perez were also invited to present on HSC's Partnership to Reduce Disparities in Asthma and Obesity in Latino Schools and strategies for working partnerships at the American Public Health Association annual conference held in Boston Nov. 4 - 8.

Cooking Up Change Winner Appears on Spatulatta.com

Isabella and Olivia, co-hosts of Spatulatta.com, the online cooking show for kids, recently made a scrumptious dinner built around an "Undersea Adventure" with the help of a young Cooking Up Change auction winner. Scott's family's winning bid won him a spot on this James Beard Award-winning webcast.

"When we saw the recipes Scott wanted to make we freaked!" Isabella and Olivia wrote in their latest newsletter. "He wanted to make poisson en papillote (fish in parchment) and a trifle for dessert. It seemed like something that would come from a fancy restaurant. But Ms. Janet [Scott's mom] said it just seemed hard. If you've ever made foil treasure chests you could work with parchment paper. So we thought why not! It was easy and delicious! If we can do it, so can you."

Check out the delicious recipes from the Undersea Adventure »

Cooking Up Change, HSC's annnual benefit, was held in September at U.S. Cellular Field. Isabella and Olivia attended, as did professional chefs Gale Gand of Tru and Bruce Sherman of North Pond.

Thanks for reading, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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