Name: United for Green Schools
Start: 2025-09-22T10:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-22T12:00:00-04:00
Location: The Center for Fiction

Labor, Communities & Cities Leading Change in the Face of Disinvestment
About this Event

United for Green Schools: Labor, Communities & Cities Leading Change in the Face of Disinvestment

Co-hosted by the Building Power Resource Center and the Climate & Community Institute.

Labor, community, and government coalitions are fighting for–and winning–transformative investments in green, healthy schools, despite the challenging times that public schools face today.

Public schools face chronic disinvestment, enrollment crises, and a backlog of deferred maintenance. Investing in green, healthy schools saves districts money, improves learning and work conditions within schools, and creates and trains students for jobs in the building and clean energy sector. When schools run on clean energy, they both are more able to adapt to extreme weather events and combat the climate crisis by reducing emissions.

Join this panel to hear from leaders in government, labor, and social movements in Chicago, Columbus, and Los Angeles as they share the nuts and bolts of how they are winning and implementing green schools programs in their districts.

Disclaimer: This is a non-partisan event, and public officials who are invited to speak on the panel are invited in their official capacity based on their expertise and experience regarding the panel topic.