MARCH 2026 NEWSLETTER

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OASIS MARCH 2026 NEWSLETTER

EVENTS—Time sensitive:

April 9, 5-7pm Princeton Public Library. Teen Talks: Environment: Princeton teens share environmentally-related research in a TED Talk-style format, followed by a poster session. Free. Share with your students!

High School Summer Program in Lifestyle Medicine at Stanford – to share with your students

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

BOOKS AND VIDEOS:

Susan Solomon, Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again

INTERESTING WEBSITES and RESOURCES:

Energy Tax Credits for Schools works for all (public, independent, faith-based) non-profit schools!

Climatizing your curriculum

START program from the Green Schools to help you benchmark and track your progress: see attached pdf

The World’s Biggest Risks: see attached pdf

Great source for climate change data from ClimateCentral.org

Climate Change Resource Library for Educators: from NJ DEP, 500 resources

The Hetchinger Report about solar panels saving money for schools around the country

Climate Central tool: data visualization about climate change

Green Schools Alliance March 2026 Newsletter (good article on stormwater management)

AWARDS:

The Educated Choices Program focuses on empowering healthy, sustainable food choices. Educators around the world are Invited to submit student posters, poems, and creative work. All entries may receive recognition on ECP’s website, social media, newsletter, and other materials, and selected winners will also receive a physical, personally engraved award. Learn more.

TSL International Student Competition – Sustainability Culture
TSL invites students aged 7–18 (worldwide) to share their ideas and perspectives on Sustainability Culture. Students can submit one free entry in a wide range of formats, including artwork, music, video, podcast, writing, or creative pieces. Entries must be submitted via the TSL Competition Platform by a registered Teacher Champion (teacher/parent account required). Learn More.

GROUPS TO JOIN:

FOR STUDENTS:

The Young Reporters for the Environment programme is an international network & platform for young people to investigate, research and share solutions to global environmental issues. The 2025-2026 YRE International competition is for young people aged 11-25 and centers around the theme of food security & climate change.

Walking Softly is a group that supports young environmental leaders. Your school club may want to join. It looks terrific. Share this with your students!

MORE NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS:

· Nearly 10,000 schools serving 3.36 million students are within a quarter mile of a site designated as environmentally hazardous by the EPA, according to a new study from researchers at Brown University.

· New Stanford study on the cost of greenhouse gas emissions

· Syngenta to halt production on paraquat pesticide as it faces lawsuits over links to Parkinson’s disease

· Climate change and increased forest disturbances in Europe – based on this new study

· Rising temperatures linked to increasing antibiotic-resistant infections across Western Pacific

· The link between mental health and pollution exposure

· The importance of epidemiology for human and planetary health

· Impacts of chronic exposure to wildfire smoke on mortality and neurological diseases

· EPA weakens regulations for mercury and other toxic air pollutants

· “Climate change is fueling disease outbreaks”– new DECO research directly links climate change to increased infectious disease occurrences, feat. Mallory Harris, Noah Diffenbaugh, and Erin Mordecai

· The disproportionate effects of climate change on Pacific island nations – based on recent paper by Michele Barry, Sara Damore, and Caroline Ferguson Irlanda

· New law to regulate California dairy farms’ water pollution – feat. Deborah Sivas and recent Stanford white paper

· Studying existential risks to humanity – NPR Marketplace podcast feat. HPH Director Steve Luby

o Check out upcoming annual conference: Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

· Lisa Patel on the EPA’s Endangerment Finding repeal: “Children shouldn’t have to defend themselves from climate change”

· Tackling climate change as the “greatest health crisis facing us today” – Healthy Climate America podcast hosted by Lisa Patel

· Global warming has accelerated in the last decade, according to new study – which will “ratchet up the threats to health and livelihood people around the world face”

· Rising temperatures will lead to less physical activity and increased health issues, from new Lancet study; plus more coverage

· The Nature Record draft released assessing the current state of nature in America – including a chapter on health and wellbeing

· The Plastic Detox – new Netflix documentary on plastic exposure and human fertility; plus a webinar with Shanna Swan on the science behind the documentary, Thurs April 2, 10am. Learn more and register here.

· The Lancet Global Health releases new series: “Energy and health in low-income and middle-income countries”

· Research confirms widespread exposure of pesticides in Costa Rican and Ugandan smallholder farmers

https://www.wholeschoolsustainability.com/

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“How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act towards our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are.”