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Get Involved and Stay Up-to-date
This work is more FUN when we all get to uplift each other's work and stories, inspire each other, and celebrate success together.
In implementing climate actions across PPS, we aim to ensure we're always telling the story of this work -- of your work! Through social media, monthly newsletters, media and outreach, and more, our team elevates stories of success from around the district so that more schools, communities, and organizations are inspired to learn more and get involved. This work only happens if we believe that it's possible and we celebrate success together.
Email our staff at climatejustice@pps.net and sustainability@pps.net.
Interested in partnering with PPS students, schools, or district initiatives?
Fill out this brief form!
Our goal with this form is to create a directory of local climate justice programs and organizations that we can share on our website to better facilitate connections between classrooms and community organizations.
Subscribe to the PPS Climate and Sustainability Newsletter
The BEST way to stay-up-to-date and be in conversation with us is to subscribe to our award winning PPS Climate and Sustainability Newsletter! Our newsletter comes out once a month during the school year and includes staff and student highlights, sustainability stories from around the district, upcoming events and opportunities for the PPS community, and updates about our progress on the Climate Crisis Response Policy.
It's also a great place for you to share your story. If you know of something awesome happening at your school that the rest of the PPS community should know about so that they can be inspired and amazed, let us know! We'll come out to collect photos and a student quote or two and write you up in the newsletter. Email us at sustainability@pps.net.
Past PPS Climate and Sustainability Newsletters
Find us on social media
Looking for PPS sustainability and PPS climate justice updates and highlights? Check out the PPS Sustainability instagram page (@pps_sustainability) and the PPS Climate Justice YouTube channel (@pps_climatejustice).
PPS Climate work in Video Form!
We're gearing up to load more content onto our YouTube pages -- How-to videos, school sustainability stories, and more. For now, you can check out our past Student Voices on Climate Futures panel (below) and video of our 2023 Spring Student Climate Fair.
Find our pages at www.youtube.com/@pps_climatejustice and https://www.youtube.com/@ppsenergysustainability.
Stewardship Clean Up Events
Help steward our beautiful schoolyards by signing up for one of the many SOLVE and PPS collaborative clean up events taking around Portland Public Schools. You can sign up for an event that exists already, or, if you don't see an event for your school, you can organize one!
Contact communitycare@pps.net to learn more about signing up for an event or hosting a community care day at your school.
For Parents: Eco-School Network
The Eco-School Network is an organization of students, parents, teachers, and school staff promoting sustainable practices and raising ecological awareness in elementary schools in Oregon. We equip them to lead school communities toward sustainability through free training and ongoing support. For more information about the Eco-School Network, click here.