In April of 2011, the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality collaboratively launched what they have entitled the Green Ribbon Schools Program. The program is designed to “move toward educational excellence for the future by recognizing schools that are creating healthy and sustainable learning environments - both inside and outside the classroom, teaching environmental literacy, and increasing environmental health by reducing their environmental footprint.”
From the White House’s announcement on this program: “This initiative will also help to reconnect our nation's youth to the environment around them, as part of President Obama's Americas Great Outdoors initiative, by encouraging outdoor learning. In a day when children spend half as much time outside as their parents did, there's no time like the present to leverage the Federal government's leadership to fuel our children’s spirit of adventure and reconnect them with the outdoors. After all, outdoor access and environmental education will better prepare our students to find innovative solutions to tomorrow’s challenges and compete for the jobs of the future."
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