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CELF Eco-Footprint Program: "Pleasantville Schools Celebrate Green Initiatives", The Daily,
May 5, 2012

CELF Student Ambassadors at Green Festival 20120: "Green Festival Inspires 25,000" Examiner.com, April 24, 2012

CELF Eco-Footprint Program: "Sixth Graders Trace Ecological Footprints" The Daily,
December 17, 2011

CELF Eco-Footprint Program: "Waste Not, Want Not, Pleasantville Sixth-Graders Learn"
The Examiner, December 2011

Summer Institute: "CELF's Summer Institute Educates Teachers About Sustainability" Tarrytown Patch.com, June 2011

Summer Institute: "Big Picture Learning: Training Teachers to Teach Sustainability"
Bedford-Katonah Patch.com, June 2011

NYLCV Honors CELF: "NYLCV Honors CELF for its Leadership and Committment To Sustainability Education in Westchester County" Green Living Guy, May 2011

NYLCV, May 2011: "Benefit reception honored Thalle Industries, Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation"

Student Sustainability Summit: "Students Gather for Environmental Summit"
Chappaqua Mt Kisco Patch, April 2011

USP Webinar, November '10: "Educating Students for Sustainability: Case Studies from around the Country" with CELF intro to students from Yonkers' Riverside HS Green Team

CELF Eco-footprint at Manhattan Country School, November 2010: "Manhattan Country School students learn about their eco-footprint" MCS YouTube, November 2010

CELF Boston Summer Institute in partnership with Boston Latin School:
"2010 CELF Summer Institute: Education for Sustainability" YouTube, November 2010
“Student ideas for green roof make school a teaching lab," Boston Globe, July 2010
"Sustainability Education at the Oldest School in America" Today Show, July 2010

"Greening a K-12 School System" Steve Frantz, American Association of School Administrators, August 2010, Number 7, Vol. 67

CELF Newsletter - Balance

Fall '11
"Is Environmental Literacy Relevant?", Fall/Winter Events, photos from summer programs, "Collaborate and Reinvigorate with CELF-Help!", CELF STATS, CELF Summer Institute: Meet the Faculty (NY & MA), and NEW: Coming later this year from Vestergaard Frandsen and CELF.

May '11 CELF e-News: "New Opportunities and Resource for Teachers and School Communities"
Highlights include new LifeStraw Donation program partnership with Rotary International & Vestergaard Frandsen, CELF honor from NYLCV, upcoming CELF Summer Institute information and Eco-Footprint Programs news, plus link to NEW online CELF RESOURCE CENTER.

November '10 CELF e-News: "CELF in the City"
Highlights include Introduction to Education for Sustainability (EfS) held for NYC Department of Education and UFT on Nov 2nd, Curriculum Consulting for Urban Assembly School for Green Careers, CELF Eco-Footprint Program at Manhattan Country School, plus invitations to two upcoming EfS webinars.

September '10 CELF e-News: "Welcome Back to School"
Highlights, details and examples from all three CELF Summer Intitutes, including the inaugural Boston program at Simmons Collge in partnership with Boston Latin School.

June '10
New eco-friendly emailed format featuring links to upcoming CELF programs and calendar, Student EXPO'10 stats and feedback, and CELF Eco-Footprint program brief. Look for this new format of CELF news in the future, rather than our longer Balance format. Sign up to receive the online newsletter at: Contact.

Winter '09
Green Schools Coalition of Westchester, highlights of Student EXPO'09, Summer Institute featuring '09 success stories from two schools and CELF Eco-Footprint program news.

Fall '08
FCWC honors CELF for green leadership, Student EXPO'08, Summer Institute-A Catalyst for Sustainability, and The Gateway School of Manhattan, The Cooper Union-Designing and Engineering for the Future.

Winter ’07
Colleges and sustainability, CELF and districts chosen for national grant project, integrating sustainability into fourth-grade essay writing, engaging leadership in sustainability, World Cafe, and the costs and benefits of sustainability, introducing the CELF Eco-Footprint Program, Sierra Club of Lower Hudson Valley.

Fall '07
CELF professional development programs, sustainability education vs. environmental education, and A Real-World Perspective: Cradle-to-cradle design, My CELF: reflections from a two-time Summer Instititute graduate, Middle School Students Forge Partners with Corporate America.

Spring/Summer '06
Inaugural EXPO, Sustainability in Schools: Collaborative is Key, Engaging Educators: Crisis or Opportunity?, Student/Teacher Seminars: a pilot middle school program.