Encore: Historic National Investment in Indoor Air Quality in Schools
Release Date: 05/23/2025
Protect Your Kiddos! January is National Radon Action Month
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U.S. EPA and the Center for Disease Control urge all Americans to take Radon seriously. You can’t see, smell or taste radon, but it could be present at a dangerous level in your home or children’s school. Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer deaths among nonsmokers in America and claims the lives of about 21,000 Americans each year. In fact, the EPA and the U.S. Surgeon General urge all Americans to protect their health by testing their homes, schools and other buildings for radon.Today we’re joined by Zan Jones, VP of Sales and Marketing for Radonova, Inc. to discuss what you can...
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Influential Tribal Confederation Endorses Climate North Star global climate rescue plan
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The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Tribal Council unanimously endorsed the Climate North Star global climate rescue plan at their regular meeting on Thursday, December 11, 2025. The science-based plan, if implemented, would cause global temperatures to stop rising no later than 2035. “By blending climate science and indigenous science and wisdom,” says CSKT Climate Coordinator and Climate North Star board member Mike Durglo, “Climate North Star offers inspiration and time-bound guidance to avert a climate catastrophe before it is too late. We urge indigenous and...
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New Report from American Lung Association on IAQ in Schools
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The American Lung Association is pleased to share the Clean Air School Challenge report on state policies on indoor air quality (IAQ) in schools, . This report summarizes the current landscape of IAQ policies across the country and provides clear, research-based recommendations that can guide educational conversations with partners who work in schools, public health, or environmental health and state government officials. This resource can support strengthening awareness of school IAQ and helping state government officials and partners understand where opportunities exist for conversations...
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Child Care Professionals Are on the Front Lines as Climate Change Risks Children’s Health and Development
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Amid a changing climate and federal rollbacks to disaster relief and preparedness, early educators face an increasingly untenable child care landscape that will require state and local action. Young children and the people who care for them face particular challenges due to the historically underfunded early education system,5 affecting child health and safety as well as community recovery. Tune in as we speak with Dr. Hailey Gibbs with the Center for American Progress about how policymakers at all levels of government, child and public health advocates, and other community members must...
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Change the Air Foundation
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Indoor air quality is a public health issue hiding in plain sight. Tune in as we talk with Kendra Seymour, Vice-Chair & Co-Founder of Change the Air Foundation (501(c)(3)), about empowering families and schools to breathe safer indoor air through education, policy advocacy, and small-scale research. 🔗 Listen live on Oct. 10, 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern: 🔗 Listen on demand starting Oct. 11:
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Why Environmental Justice Is Educational Justice
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Climate change is amplifying existing inequities that disproportionately affect students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, and students with disabilities. What’s more, these students — many of whom lack consistent access to clean air and water and safe housing — are at greater risk of exposure to pollution that can worsen asthma and other health issues. They’re increasingly and understandably anxious about the climate crisis — as the stakes are high and they will likely bear the brunt of it — and want to know what they can do about it. Join us as we speak with Dr....
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Protecting Children from Extreme Heat in Schools
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Schools in many parts of the U.S. are ill-equipped to deal with record-breaking heat during the school year, and that is adversely impacting student health and learning. Tune in as we speak with Autumn Burton, Senior Associate of Climate, Health, and Environment at the Federation of American Scientists, and Hailey Gibbs, Ph.D., associate director of Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress, as we discuss how to protect children from extreme heat in schools.
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Here Comes the Sun, a new book from Bill McKibben
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From the acclaimed environmentalist, Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind—and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a year to the world’s sixth-largest economy—California—nearly halving its use of natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more than just a path...
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I Don’t Know, Maybe, I Love You: How to De-Polarize Your Family, Business, Country and the World
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For over three decades, James Twyman has been a global force for peace, leading millions of people in synchronized peace meditations across the world. As a New York Times bestselling author, he has written 24 books, including The Moses Code, and recorded 22 music albums, selling over 350,000 copies. Beyond his work as an author and musician, James is a filmmaker, having directed or produced seven feature films, including the award-winning Redwood Highway. A Franciscan Episcopal priest, James founded Namaste Village, an interfaith spiritual community in Ajijic, Mexico, now home to 45...
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Denali Nalamalapu author of Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance
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A spectacular blend of graphic memoir and climate activism, Holler uses contemporary and visceral storytelling to highlight the lives of six frontline resisters to the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Appalachia. Author Elizabeth Rush writes “Few books illustrate what collective resistance looks like––the pain that sparks it, and the love that fuels it––Holler is a thoughtful addition to this growing, and necessary, canon.” Drawing from original interviews with debut author and climate organizer, Denali Sai Nalamalapu, Holler introduces readers to a teacher, a single mother, a...
info_outlineIn 2024, Congress made a historic investment in improving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in schools. The Go Green Initiative (GGI) was one of five organizations nationwide that received funding to help K-12 school districts across the U.S. address this vital issue. On today’s episode, Jill Buck, founder and CEO of the Go Green Initiative and host of Go Green Radio, will discuss GGI’s plans to dramatically increase the number of school districts with IAQ Management Plans throughout the country, and most importantly, how this will impact children’s health and ability to learn.