House Approves Bill to Help our Nation’s K-12 Schools Go Green!!

Washington, DC - The House of Representatives has passed legislation that will provide nearly $7 billion in grants to help our nations’ K-12 schools go green. Called the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act (H.R. 3021), the bill, sponsored by Ben Chandler, will help schools to become more energy efficient and healthier. There is a special emphasis on low-income schools where children are most at risk from unhealthy facilities and on schools that still suffer from the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.

According to Earth Day Network’s Green Schools program, close to 60 million students spend up to 40 hours a week in facilities that are often unhealthy and a hindrance to their ability to learn. Green schools reduce sick days, significantly improve the health of students with asthma and other respiratory illnesses, and increase student morale and confidence. ..

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Ontario premier lifts outdoor-clothesline ban

Ontario residents can now hang their clothes and linens out to dry after the premier lifted the ban on outdoor clotheslines on Friday.
There were restrictions in many subdivisions across the province, but the province’s new regulation will overrule the neighbourhood rules, which were put in place because clotheslines were considered unsightly.

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Lifting the clothesline ban in not new news - it happened in April - but I wanted to put it up anyway because it has always struck me - and still does - as absolutely absurd that such bans existed and were permitted in the first place. And don’t think that it was a minor thing. I had a neighbour that was quick to report any outdoor drying of clothes in our subdivision to the town and I know a few people who were threatened with fines if they didn’t take theirs down.