Students Are Zero-Waste Superheroes
Track
Schools
Speakers
Jessica Robinson, Northern California Recycling Association, Recycle Smart School, and Emery Unified School District, Resilience Birthright Inc
Title
President, K-12 environmental school consultant
Speaker Biography
Jessica Jane Robinson is the CEO and Founder of Resilience Birthright Inc, a partnering NGO of the United Nations. She is the creator of the Earth Warrior Carbon Calculator, a community-based zero-waste 101 tool that helps address climate change and guides people toward the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Jessica has been a zero-waste practitioner and active and impactful environmental leader in the Bay Area for over a decade. She has developed innovative zero-waste programs in Alameda County schools, RecycleSmart Schools, and programs throughout the Bay Area. She is currently the President of the Northern California Recycling Association.
Abstract Title
Students Become Zero-Waste Superheroes K-12 Programming
Speaker Abstract
Resilience Birthright’s founder, Jessica Jane Robinson, has been working in schools teaching about climate change and zero-waste, providing technical assistance regarding waste diversion & sustainable program planning and implementation for over a decade. Her work has covered over 80 schools in the Bay Area, California, and has inspired action in schools throughout the United States. Ms. Robinson has helped principals, teachers, green teams, and district administrations plan, implement, and promote their environmental program successes.
She will share her K-12 Earth Warrior School Program, where students learn how powerful practicing the 5 R's, refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, rot/compost, can be when done daily with intention. The Earth Warrior School Program has environmental education, lesson plans, and songs. The Earth Warrior Program lesson plans cover Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core Math, and English Language Arts Content Standards, which can be a tool for teaching in the classroom, online, and home-schooling.
Jessica will share best practices that have helped schools move from 20% diversion to composting and recycling 80% of their waste.
This presentation covers California's school mandates, AB 827 and SB 1383.