The Green Innovator™

The Green Innovator™ is a unique education program and curriculum aimed at high school students that explores issues of sustainability through design. With our planet facing a myriad of environmental challenges, The Green Innovator™ provides students with unique tools and strategies for thinking critically about innovative solutions that address those challenges in their local communities and the world. More than this, it’s a way for teachers to facilitate a dialogue with students about the integral role of design and green manufacturing processes in our transition toward a more sustainable future.
“Finally! an environmental curriculum that is accessible, hip and exciting for my students…” (10th Grade Teacher, P.S. 57)

Program Elements

A Semester Long Curriculum
A complete curriculum, set of lesson plans and activities that aligns perfectly with National Education Standards.

Powerpoint & Video
Each Green Innovator™ kit comes with a Powerpoint presentation the award winning PBS Series, Design: e2.

Hands-on Activity Materials
A set of materials to facilitate hands-on activities in your classroom are packaged with each curriculum resource.

Curriculum Modules

Design for the Environment
An exploration of natural systems and how they can provide design innovations to some of the world’s biggest environmental challenges.
Sustainable Mobility
This section explores the intersection of sustainability and transportation: everything from the way we design cars and manufacture them to the infrastructures and fuels they use and the people driving them.
Community Planning
A primer on green building, architecture and urban design techniques that allow for an overall sustainable design of the communities we live and work in.
Green Product Design
An exploration of the impacts the products that we use everyday have on our environment from initial design stages to manufacture, distribution, use and disposal.

Order your copy today!

Our expected release date for the Green Innovator™ is April 15th, 2008.
Visit our online store or contact us today to pre-order a copy!
Email: kennedy[at]solar1[dot]org
Phone: 212-505-6050