CREATING A CULTURE OF SUSTAINABLE THINKERS™
Sustainability Education for Students, Families, and Communities
We provide sustainability education aligned with national standards. Our lessons take a holistic approach to learning, incorporating environmental, health, and social perspectives in a format children can easily comprehend.
We provide live classes, courses, seminars, workshops, and training in the field of energy conservation. Our educational services includes development of course materials and curriculum for schools and businesses in the field of energy conservation.
In-School youth energy and sustainability education and tools for Pre-K through 12th grade. We have extensive experience with providing services to at risk populations, schools, community organizations, youth and families.
Live Presentations: We align our courses, workshops and tools with STEM skills as well as Common Core and Next Generation standards. Our customizable presentations, workshops, courses, summits, and tools utilize visual, audio, and tactile learning techniques to reach and engage our audience. We offer our educational materials and tools in both Spanish and English.
Our Live SWITCH IT OFF™ Presentations provide youth, families, teachers, and adults with information on what energy is, where energy comes from, why we should conserve energy, and how to save energy at home. Our experienced team of actors, artists, building scientists, and educators use these engaging tools to provide climate change information coupled with behavioral energy saving choices.
We emphasize upgrading to Energy Star appliances and lighting through the Home Energy Solutions, Home Performance with Energy Star and MASS SAVE programs.
We partner with schools and utilities to reward students, teachers and families for saving energy. Our team also provides information on how schools and businesses can raise funds through state supported HES and Mass Save programs.
Customizable tools: We provide a line of customizable products and tools including the books, “Dinero the Frog Learns to Save Energy”, “Pesky Plastic”, “Green Eco Warrior magazine” and “Green Eco Warrior the comic book”, as well as a live educational performance which includes the characters Dinero the Frog® and the Phantom Draw®. We continue to build new presentations and tools as the need for in the ever changing energy efficiency market to develop products which align with educational standards. Our books have received positive reviews from the Department of Energy, students, teachers, and other energy programs Nationally.
Our Team of expert energy conservationists, artists, designers, and educators have been met with rave reviews from STEM schools, private schools, community organizations, and suburban and inner-city schools.
Events
- Our team hosts an annual youth sustainability competition.
- Annual Save Energy Save Dinero culminating event for 200 youth
- We provide in-school education through live presentations.
- We provide community education by request.
Speaking Engagements and Training
Our team of actors and educators will work with your staff to tailor the presentations to your group’s specific needs. The topics we cover are located below:
- Save Energy Save Dinero – K – 5 live performance
- Dinero learns to Save Energy Book reading
- Energy Sources renewable vs non renewable energy
- Building Science 101
- Science of Energy – Where does Electricity come from?
- Calculating Return on Investment (ROI) for energy upgrades and investments
- Workforce Development
- Energy Efficiency & Energy Management
- Transition to a clean energy economy
- Conserving energy through behavioral changes
- Climate Change
- Energy in Society
- Careers related to energy
- Creative Arts related to sustainability
- Public Speaking
- Supplemental Materials for classroom or community education
View all available online books and materials here:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
Why choose Green Eco Warrior Training and Seminars?
We are highly experienced in outreach and engagement of communities and schools.
Leticia Colon de Mejias is a motivational speaker, the CEO 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 a nonprofit which works to “Create a Culture of Sustainable Thinkers”. 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 diverse superheroes and align with national science standards. She is the recipient of the United States of America’s Department of Energy award for work with at risk and minority populations, National Tony Woods Award Building Scientist of the year award, Minority Small Business of the year award, National Department of Education award, and a two time Capital Workforce Partners employer of the year award. Her companies have provided energy efficiency assessments and upgrades to over 12,000 CT households and completed full energy efficiency retrofits in over 10 million square feet of multifamily housing. Through her nonprofit Green Eco Warriors she has provided climate change and energy education to over 30,000 youth and families. Prior to working in building science, she was a manager at Hartford Healthcare and developed several nationally awarded workforce models. Her businesses are located in Windsor, CT.
Sustainable business model: Our books and products are printed in the United States of America on partially or 100% recycled paper. We ensure all of our products meet school safety standards such as safe inks. Green Eco Warriors runs entirely on solar power electricity and we use sustainable water, lighting, building, and landscape practices. We are an equal opportunity employer and offer workplace training and internships to youth interested in energy conservation or efficiency.
Dedicated to lowering Carbon emissions: Our team is dedicated to collaboration on projects which align with our goals of reducing carbon emissions through education and behavioral changes as well as the support or implementation of energy star technology.