TreeAGE Green Healthy Schools Boot Camp
TREEage is youth-led climate organization. For the past five years, alongside students, teachers, professors, and community members, we’ve built the campaign for Green Healthy Schools, and Mayor Mamdani adopted it as his own. Here’s what we’re fighting for:
- 500 schools renovated with clean air, heating and cooling, and solar
- 500 asphalt schoolyards turned green and opened to the neighborhood after hours
- 50 schools transformed into resilience hubs with backup power and cooling for the whole block
- 15,000 union jobs for the people who build, maintain, and run our schools
From wildfire smoke turning the sky orange to storms flooding the buses and trains we take and the school buildings we sit in, climate disasters continue to worsen. In neighborhoods like the South Bronx, which has been systemically neglected and filled with peaker plants, truck routes, and waste transfer stations, students there are hospitalized for asthma at five times the national rate and 21 times the rate of wealthier NYC neighborhoods.
Winning Green Healthy Schools means students from every high school and college across the five boroughs telling their stories and fighting for their communities.
At the Bootcamp, you’ll learn how that fight starts in your own school and scales to the city, practice telling your climate story, hear from elected officials on why youth voices decide these fights, and leave with a real way in: our new Political and Communications committees, School Lead positions, and monthly borough membership meetings.
