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CREATING A CULTURE OF SUSTAINABLE THINKERS™

Sustainability Education for Students, Families, and Communities

green_cfl Since 2008 Green Eco Warriors has been providing diverse, inclusive, engaging, environmental, energy, sustainability, and leadership education aligned with NGSS and common core standards. We are a certified minority operated nonprofit serving underrepresented populations. We work to support communities by providing access to science based education, with hands-on learning tools, and in-person seminars. In 2020, we added supportive online learning tools.

Holistic Approaches to Learning

At Green Eco Warriors we believe “All things are connected.”

Our lessons take a holistic approach to learning, incorporating the interconnections between environmental issues, health impacts, economics, and social perspectives in formats that children and families can easily comprehend.

Aligned with Educational Goals and Codes

Our learning tools are aligned with NGSS and common core standards to aid schools, families, and youth groups in choosing tools which are off the shelf ready for your lesson plans.

Our materials are written and tested by a diverse group of educators, students, and community members. Our books and videos simplify difficult topics such as environmental justice, energy demands, climate change, energy grids, renewable energy, policy leadership, and advocacy. We have been awarded multiple national awards for our leadership in minority communities, for our educational tools, and our live engaging presentations.

The Diversity Lens

Our team is diverse and offers new insights to connecting to underrepresented communities. We are a team of minorities which desire to connect our communities to STEAM based activities and supportive hands-on science learning. We serve underrepresented populations as our core work. Our Live SWITCH IT OFF™ presentations provide youth, families, and teachers information on what energy is, where energy comes from, why we should conserve energy, and how to save energy and water at home.

Our experienced team of minority actors, artists, building scientists, and educators use engaging tools and leave behind guides and activities to provide climate change information coupled with behavior based energy saving choices.

We were awarded the National DOE Energy Star Award for our work with at risk and minority populations on energy conservation. Our learning tools represent diverse characters and inclusive plots.

Green Eco Warriors offers diverse character-based curriculums, engaging educational books, videos, and live seminars for grades K – 12.

We offer the unique ability to create customized learning tools geared to both students and their families. Our dedicated staff has been nationally recognized for their leadership in energy conservation and their work with at risk populations.

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Green Eco Warriors Customizable Tools

Green Eco Warriors has developed and published a variety of K-12 educational materials and publications. All our books, magazines and comic book series are aligned with Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics. All materials are customizable for school districts, organizations and corporate entities. Our characters and educational materials are available for licensing. Click here to learn more.

SWITCH IT OFF™ Kit

Each kit contains exclusive educational materials, graphic texts, work books, and activities which are meant to engage youth and families in Switch It OFF behaviors. The world has become a fast placed environment. To often, youth and families are focused on electronic devices for work or entertainment. We are looking down at our devices and missing the opportunity to engage in real world learning.

SWITCH IT OFF™ is designed to empower All people to switch off electronic devices and directly engage actively in the world around us.

We encourage youth and families to journal ideas, create task lists, read, write, design, color, play cards, dominoes or simply look up at the world around us. The goal of this program is to teach real life skills inclusive of positive life choice behaviors. Get ready for an exciting journey to becoming warriors.

To purchase the SWITCH IT OFF™ Kit, board game, or for more information on these tools, or other products and services we offer, please contact us at sales@greenecowarriors.org.

Leticia Colon de Mejias is a Nationally Awarded Building Scientist, Workforce Development Leader, and Environmental Equity Speaker

Mrs. Colon de Mejias is the founder of the Nationally awarded company Energy Efficiencies Solutions, Chair of the nonprofit Efficiency For All, Policy Co-Chair of the National Building Performance Association, a Commissioner for the state of Connecticut Commission on Women Children Elderly Latino & Puerto Rican Affairs, and Founder and President of Green Eco Warriors. She is an awarded published children’s book author with several books on environmental leadership, sustainability, as well as a line of educational science based graphic texts (comic books) which feature a cast of diverse superheroes and align with national science standards. She is the recipient of many national awards, including the United States of America’s Department of Energy Award for work with at risk and minority populations, National Award Building Scientist Hall of Fame , Minority Small Business of the year award, National Department of Education award, and she is a two time Capital Workforce Partners Employer of the Year Award. Her companies have provided energy efficiency assessments and upgrades to over 20,000 CT households and completed full energy efficiency retrofits in over 10 million square feet of multifamily housing. Through the nonprofit Green Eco Warriors, she has provided climate and energy education to over 40,000 youth and families.

Working with students is the best part of our work

These youth had excellent questions for this career panel which featured doctors, marine biologists, musicians, a dancer, teachers, environmentalist, insurance actuaries, and our Green Eco Warriors President @ Annie Fisher STEM school...

Energy and the Environment Basics – Global Warming

Think of the planet’s atmosphere as a bath tub that is filling with water faster than the drain can empty it. It is the same for CO2 and other greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. If we don’t stop adding CO2 at a faster rate than it can be removed, the atmosphere will be overloaded, just like how the tub will overflow with too much water. We must stop adding greenhouse gases and increase the amount of plants that naturally remove the carbon dioxide from the environment. If we give the planet a chance to catch up, then the atmosphere will find balance. All we have to do is turn off the “faucet” and stop the pollution at its source! Every type of Energy Source has a different impact on the environment. Some of the effects of these energy sources include toxic waste and the release of green house gases. On the other hand, renewable energy sources are clean and cause little environmental impact. They are safer, more responsible alternatives to non-renewable energy sources which we use today. Did you Know? Most carbon emissions, and other types of pollution in the environment come from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, gas, and oil. These fuels are used for most of our energy needs, including electricity production and powering cars and other vehicles. We use more electricity today than ever before. Electricity is part of our everyday life. Think about how we use it to: cook and to keep food from...

Hartford High School Academy of Green Technology and Engineering Saves Energy and Dinero™

Hartford High School Academy of Green Technology and Engineering has partnered with Green Eco Warriors to teach high school students about STEM skills, energy education, environmental leadership, and community engagement. Students are learning to Switch It Off ™ and reduce carbon emissions to slow climate change by turning off electronics and powering up their minds. The Switch It Off ™ program’s goal is to reduce the impacts of climate change on urban and minority populations, while increasing STEM skills and sustainability engagement in urban families. Hartford residents can support the Save Energy Save Dinero ™ fundraiser and reduce carbon emissions by having a home energy assessment completed through the sponsor Energy Efficiencies Solutions. EES will donate $25 to Hartford High for every home that Saves Energy and Dinero™. Contact EES today at www.eesgogreen.com or learn more at https://www.gewportal.org/articles/ . Many families qualify for FREE services....

Are you interested in creating a team of energy efficiency student champions at your school

Green Eco Warriors will work with your school to create a locally based school project which will provide: workforce skills training in energy efficiency jobs for students energy consumption education and how to reduce it reducing carbon emissions and how it relates to climate change a challenging teamwork project to enhance students skill sets: Initiative Dependability Professionalism Teamwork Communication Planning and organizing Problem solving Goals focus STEM skills To learn more, please call 860-993-0714. ...

Green Eco Warriors visit Oliver Ellsworth Elementary School, Windsor, CT

Oliver Ellsworth Elementary School accepted the Save Energy Save Dinero Challenge! May 13th – Oliver Ellsworth Elementary School students welcomed the Green Eco Warriors to their school. Leticia Colon de Mejias taught students about energy, where it comes from, and sustainability. Students were engaged answering questions and learning the Green Eco Warrior theme...

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