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Comment 1 for Draft Updates to CARB's Funding Guidelines for Agencies that Administer California Climate Investments (draftguidelines-ws) - 1st Workshop.


First Name: Vicki
Last Name: Moore
Email Address: vickim@living-classroom.org
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Subject: Consideration of California Climate Investment allocation to public schools
Comment:
Dear California Air Resources Board,

As someone who founded a garden-based education program (Living
Classroom) that utilizes green schoolyards with native and edible
gardens and other outdoor learning environments, I highly encourage
you to encourage and allow public schools in the CA Climate
Investment designated areas to apply for funds to transform their
school grounds and buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
conserve energy, use renewable energy, plant trees to provide
shade, cool buildings and reduce the heat island effect, conserve
water, retain and purify storm water runoff, and otherwise provide
superior learning environments for our children.  My understanding
is that there are some funds from other categories available for
schools including urban forestry and alternative fuels for school
buses, but in order to have a much greater impact, it's important
to make it easy for school districts to apply for funds to cover a
broad range of greenhouse gas reducing schoolyard and building
improvements through one application.  If you are able to provide
such a streamlined process for the CA Climate Investment portion of
the funds as well as for other areas, it will make a big difference
in terms of the number of school districts able to apply for the
greening of their schools.

I am happy to share my thoughts further with you as well as
introduce you to some wonderful organizations around the State that
would love to be able to find the funds to create green schoolyards
and would partner with school districts to do it.

Thank you,

Vicki Moore
Founder
Living Classroom
vickim@livingclassroom.org
650-224-8274

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2017-08-30 13:56:00



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