Safe Green Schools.
Let’s make things better for our children and generations to come.
Join Our Campaign to make Columbus City Schools carbon neutral.
We’re encouraging our school board to take advantage of the opportunity to make cost saving climate friendly school renovations. Let’s make the choice to save our district money, help our kids breathe easier, and slow the impacts of climate change. Together, we’re planning for our city’s future.
Supporting Teams
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Building Power Resource Center
Building the knowledge & capacity needed to implement an equitable climate transition.
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Citizens Climate Lobby
We empower everyday people to work together on climate policy.
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Columbus Education Justice Coalition
We're giving the power to the community and taking back our city and our schools!
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Columbus Parent Impact
Bringing Columbus City Schools parents together to build a united parent voice in the district.
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The Compost Exchange
Offering curbside food waste collection services throughout Central Ohio ensuring food scraps don’t end up in landfills where they cause problems for the environment.
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Greater Hilltop Area Commission
Committed to strategic growth, the committee ensures responsible land use and fosters a resilient community through targeted recommendations
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Green Columbus
Seeking to improve equitable environmental outcomes for the people of Central Ohio.
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Ohio Environmental Council
Secure healthy air, land, and water for all who call Ohio home.
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Ohio Organizing Collaborative
Building a multiracial, people-powered Ohio.
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Pint Size Protesters
We are committed to raising anti-racist children and fostering the next generation of social justice activists through our three pillars. Organize, Educate, and Demonstrate.
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Westgate Elementary PTA
Westgate PTA strives to provide a complimentary and supportive connection between home and school through social, service and enrichment activities to benefit every child at our school.
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Whetstone PTA
We're a community of parent volunteers, working to provide scholarships for students, grants for teachers and student service organizations, connect school leadership with parents, and enrich the high school experience for ALL the students at Whetstone High School in Columbus, Ohio.
We will make Columbus a place where people of all races, backgrounds, and genders have the freedom to breathe easier and thrive.
Imagine Columbus schools that run exclusively on green energy. Imagine classrooms that are a comfortable temperature year round with clean filtered air where teachers can teach and kids can learn. Imagine full electrification of all district buildings with no fossil fuels. This is the clean energy future. And it’s within our grasp. We can have school facilities that help ensure our air is clean and our city is healthy. We can have comfortable classrooms; facilities that make Columbus a greener place – the choice is ours to make for a clean energy future.
Columbus has always been a yes-we-can kind of place. We are leading the way with innovation from the tech boom to the arts scene to the country’s largest university. Today, the next big thing is the clean energy revolution. Clean energy to power our schools, save the district money, and free us from the outdated fuels that pollute our air and water and harm our climate. Columbus can continue to lead in the new energy future, with schools that will be cleaner and safer, all while building a better world for our families.
About Us
Safe Green Schools is working with Columbus Parent Impact to improve our schools. We represent a broad group of concerned organizations and individuals who are working together to win schools that usher in a green energy future. Parents, teachers, students, labor leaders and policy experts are providing important leadership, with organizations like Ohio Organizing Collaborative and Ohio Environmental Council helping to lead the way.
