MTA Climate Action Network

05/03/2026

04/11/2026

https://app.smore.com/n/rjqw0d

The Climate Informed Educator

04/17/2025

https://labornotes.org/2025/04/chicago-teachers-win-greener-schools

The Chicago Teachers Union won a tentative agreement in December that, for the first time, addresses climate and environmental justice demands—making healthy green schools a priority in our city. We achieved this breakthrough even while broader contract negotiations stalled. Finally, in April, we ...

02/15/2025

"Earth Day Boston is providing financial support and activist training for Boston-area students and educators who organize events focused on climate change during the month of April. If you are, or know, an 8th – 12th grade student or educator, we want you to apply."

01/05/2025

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/this-pennsylvania-school-is-saving-big-with-solar-and-ev-school-buses

Solar panels and electric buses can boost school budgets while cutting emissions. Here’s how Steelton-Highspire School District put both to use.

11/01/2024

PD Opportunity - MITx: Climate in Classrooms: Tools for All Teachers and Disciplines
A guide for high school teachers across locations and academic disciplines to incorporate accurate, meaningful climate education content into K-12 curricula.Course content is specifically applicable to history and social science, English and language arts, natural sciences, and math. https://www.edx.org/learn/education-teacher-training/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-climate-connecting-classrooms-multi-disciplinary-climate-change-tools-for-teachers

09/26/2024

Written by a senior at Lexington High School:

Decomposing food scraps contribute to climate change by generating 11 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

08/05/2024

https://grist.org/extreme-heat/extreme-heat-is-making-schools-hotter-and-learning-harder/

Rising temperatures mean dehydrated, exhausted kids, and teachers who have to focus on heat safety instead of instruction.

07/14/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/climate/electric-school-bus-wymore.html

In tiny Wymore, Neb., a sleek new battery-powered school bus became a Rorschach test for the future.

07/12/2024

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/11/metro/year-after-deluge-floods-return-vermont/

Vermonters are reeling after the waters devastated swaths of the state, a year to the day after the worst floods in a century.