NEWS
MAY 2025
Green Driving America completes a Schools Are Not Drive-Thrus© project at Oakland Technical High School, thanks to a grant award by the East Bay Clean Cities Coalition (CA)
Joseph Senn, an AP environmental science high school teacher at Oakland Technical High School, worked with his class in a student-led study/campaign in the spring 2025 semester that addressed the harm and waste—CO2 emissions and local air pollution—of largely unnecessary idling at the dismissal zone in front of the school! As in all Schools Are Not Drive-Thrus projects, Green Driving America provides idle-free zone signs, idle-free information handouts, and customized key chain incentives.
MAY 2025
Green Driving America is awarded a grant by an anonymous Upper Valley (Vermont & New Hampshire) foundation to implement a Schools Are Not Drive-Thrus© project at two schools in Vermont
Steve Sheeler, a science teacher at U-32 Middle and High School, will collaborate with his Middle School Seeking Social and Environmental Justice group and the High School Green Team, and Tim Maddalena-Lucey, a Windsor High School Earth Science teacher and his class, will participate in two studies/campaigns to address the harm and waste of idling on school grounds for the fall 2025 semester.
NOVEMBER 2024
Green Driving America is awarded a grant by the Environmental Grant Program of the Community Foundation of Mendocino County
to implement a Schools Are Not Drive-Thrus© project
This project, originally intended for the spring 2025 semester, has been pushed back to the fall 2025 semester. The participating school is expected to be announced in September.
OCTOBER 2024
We welcome Kaleigh Krause as a volunteer intern attending Dartmouth College to give The Clean Transportation Path© project webinar presentations in Vermont driver education and high school STEM education classes.
Ms. Krause, a Junior with a major in Environmental Studies, gives her thoughts regarding transportation: "I see immense value in clean transportation because people are always going to commute and travel." "Clean transportation certainly has limitations and negative impacts, but I believe it is imperative that we work the kinks out because transportation accounts for almost 1/3 of greenhouse gas emissions."
JUNE 2024
Wayne Michaud, executive director of Green Driving America, is a Zoom webinar presenter at the PacNorthwest Driver & Traffic Safety Virtual Conference.
(best viewed on a non-mobile device)
The virtual workshop was organized by the Oregon Department of Transportation's Transportation Safety division and by the Traffic Safety Education program at Western Oregon University. Wayne, as one of six presenters, presented Smart Driving from the Start© before an audience of Oregon and Washington driver educators in consideration of implementing a funded project in one or both states in 2025.
APRIL 2024
Wayne is presented with a Certificate of Recognition at the San Mateo County Office of Education's 2024 Sustainable and Climate-Ready Schools Challenge Symposium.
Wayne was joined by Gay Buckland-Murray, Carlmont High School principal, at the event in Redwood City, CA, following a Green Driving America Schools Are Not Drive-Thrus© idle-free study/campaign at the school in the 2022-23 school year. The effort was lead by the school’s Green Team which included the conducting of initial and final measuring of vehicle idling, resulting in a 75% reduction of idling.
APRIL 2024
We welcome an intern from University of Vermont to give The Clean Transportation Path© project webinar presentations in Vermont driver education and high school STEM education classes.
This volunteer intern, a sophomore, majors in Environmental Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. The intern states, "I am a strong advocate for the shift to energy-efficient vehicles and the widespread use of public transportation, so as to limit individual and community impacts on climate change and air quality." This will be Green Driving America's fifth intern presenter since 2021. Volunteer interns, while not considered organization employees, are paid a stipend for each presentation.