Help make Sustainable Change and Win Big!
Launch a sustainability campaign in your community through the People and Planet Challenge today! We are giving away $3,000 worth of prizes for winning campaign materials and challenge submissions for The People and Planet Challenge.
The People and Planet Challenge is open to all middle school and high school students, teachers, and administrators. Anyone that completes all four challenges will receive a Sustainability Specialist Certificate! However, to be eligible for the prizes, your school must be within San Diego County or the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), which includes: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties.
Challenge activities are adaptable for distance, hybrid, or in-person learning, and are available in both English and Spanish.
The People and Planet Challenge is open to all middle school and high school students, teachers, and administrators. Anyone that completes all four challenges will receive a Sustainability Specialist Certificate! However, to be eligible for the prizes, your school must be within San Diego County or the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), which includes: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties.
Challenge activities are adaptable for distance, hybrid, or in-person learning, and are available in both English and Spanish.
Complete sustainability challenges
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Run a sustainability campaign with your school community
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Receive a Sustainability Specialist Certificate
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Challenges and Campaign
Throughout The People and Planet Challenge, you will complete four challenges to learn more about how waste, water, transportation, and energy use affect air quality to create a People and Planet campaign! You will identify and propose solutions to excess resource use and communicate conservation strategies with your families, peers, and community.
Challenge 1:
People & the Planet - Explore your Carbon Footprint |
Challenge 2:
Build Knowledge on the Environment |
Challenge 3:
Create a People and Planet Campaign |
Challenge 4:
Launch a Campaign |
Register for the People and Planet Challenge
Please register for the People and Planet Challenge at the link below to access materials.
After completing the registration form, you will receive a link to The People and Planet Challenge Portal, where you can find all of the details for the Challenge. Please bookmark the Portal link so that you can access it easily throughout the challenge.
If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact us:
Phone: (415) 507-2181
Email: energychallenge@seiinc.org
After completing the registration form, you will receive a link to The People and Planet Challenge Portal, where you can find all of the details for the Challenge. Please bookmark the Portal link so that you can access it easily throughout the challenge.
If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact us:
Phone: (415) 507-2181
Email: energychallenge@seiinc.org
Overview of the People and Planet Challenge
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Register
High school students and teachers are eligible to access materials for The People and Planet Challenge. |
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Participate in Bilingual Challenges
Explore sustainability topics and engage the community through a series of challenges. Challenges and resources are available in English and Spanish. |
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Run a Campaign with Your School Community
Use the knowledge you gained from the challenges to spread the word and become a sustainability leader. Inspire members from your community to join you! |
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Receive an Sustainability Specialist Certificate
Boost your resume and demonstrate your knowledge of sustainability and communication with a Sustainability Specialist Certificate. Every student who completes all four energy challenges will receive a certificate from SEI’s Energize Schools program via email. |
This challenge is funded by a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Resources to Start Your Campaign
Access our campaign toolkit resources to create an effective campaign with your school community. Our toolkit includes campaign planning worksheets, slides and tips to promote positive social change.
SEE SOCial MEdia CAPTION TIPS
1.Make it your own!
As you use the social media graphics from the toolkit, be sure to personalize the captions by describing your favorite activities or fun facts you’ve learned from The Energy Challenge!
2.Think about your audience
Who is going to see your post? Classmates? Friends? Family? Teachers? Consider who you are targeting with your campaign and write a message that is tailored to your audience. For example, if teachers are your audience, you might want to emphasize what you learned in the challenges and encourage them to sign up for their class. Or if your audience are classmates, you might want to focus on encouraging them to participate in the challenge and change their behavior to help conserve energy.
3.Link back to The Energy Challenge website and tag people on social media
Encourage others to learn about energy conservation and efficiency as you did through the weekly activities! Tag your school’s social media account to encourage them to share the message. At the end of your caption be sure to include the following:
Want to learn more? Take on the #PeopleAndPlanetChallenge from @seisustainability for yourself at energizeschools.org/peopleandplanetchallenge-537864.html
As you use the social media graphics from the toolkit, be sure to personalize the captions by describing your favorite activities or fun facts you’ve learned from The Energy Challenge!
2.Think about your audience
Who is going to see your post? Classmates? Friends? Family? Teachers? Consider who you are targeting with your campaign and write a message that is tailored to your audience. For example, if teachers are your audience, you might want to emphasize what you learned in the challenges and encourage them to sign up for their class. Or if your audience are classmates, you might want to focus on encouraging them to participate in the challenge and change their behavior to help conserve energy.
3.Link back to The Energy Challenge website and tag people on social media
Encourage others to learn about energy conservation and efficiency as you did through the weekly activities! Tag your school’s social media account to encourage them to share the message. At the end of your caption be sure to include the following:
Want to learn more? Take on the #PeopleAndPlanetChallenge from @seisustainability for yourself at energizeschools.org/peopleandplanetchallenge-537864.html
