COP27 in the Classroom: Building a Sustainable School, with Greta Kringle

In this episode, we sit down with Greta Kringle, a Golden Apple Award winner, to talk about the work she's doing to make her high school more sustainable — not just in operations, but in how she teaches. We also compare notes on our own experiences attending COP27, what it's like trying to get students to actually care about climate change, and what it will take to turn global climate talk into local climate action.

• Greta's path to the Golden Apple Award and what the recognition means for her work
• How she's redesigned environmental education at her high school to make sustainability part of the culture, not just the curriculum
• What it actually takes to make a school more sustainable, from the building to the classroom
• Our reflections on attending COP27 — what surprised us, what frustrated us, and what stuck with us
• The challenge of engaging students: wanting them to care, not just memorize facts
• Where environmental education tends to fall short, and what educators can do differently
• The presence of fossil fuel companies at COP, and what that says about how climate negotiations actually work
• How the rest of the world perceives global climate leadership, and where that perception comes from
• Practical ways individuals can take action, in and out of the classroom
• What "global climate responsibility" really means, and who it falls on

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