Climate Collective

The FUHSD Climate Collective is a dynamic, student-directed team composed of students, teachers, and district leaders, dedicated to addressing the urgent challenges posed by climate change. This collaboration between district stakeholders aims to create meaningful dialogue and action around two pivotal questions:

1. How can FUHSD enhance climate literacy among students?; and
2. How can the district minimize its environmental impact?

The collective advocates for sustainable policies and practices throughout district operations while ensuring that students are equipped with the knowledge and skills to confront environmental issues. The group’s initiatives include tracking and reducing the district’s carbon footprint, promoting paper recycling, and providing education on home composting. The collective is also committed to fostering the next generation of environmental stewards through engaging field trips, environmental education lessons and awareness of green tech careers.

In the Summer of 2024, students began to dig deeper into the data and review the district’s energy consumption from the past five years. They created a dashboard that shares information on FUHSD’s carbon footprint that includes widgets demonstrating the difference in energy saved by adjusting classroom thermostats by one degree and the amount of energy consumption offset by our EV chargers. 

Core Values

Student-Driven

By design, the FUHSD Climate Collective is student driven. We aim to invite and place youth voices at the forefront of decision making.

Measurable Impact

With a long term vision since its inception, the FUHSD Climate Collective strategically sets short term goals annually with measurable impact. This allows us to address the changing needs of our district. 

History

The FUHSD Climate Collective was formed in the Summer of 2023 to establish collaboration between different stakeholders, many of whom were already involved in efforts to improve sustainability. Students across the district had joined forces in 2022 to form a Sustainability Commission and organized Earth Day Festivals in 2023, one at each of the five high schools, to invite the community to engage in dynamic solutions to climate change. In order to fully realize its potential to be a leader in sustainability and empower the next generations of environmental stewards, the FUHSD Superintendent instituted the Climate Collective. 

The FUHSD Climate Collective held its first districtwide Earth Day Celebration on April 11, 2024 at the Computer History Museum to identify and showcase multidisciplinary climate-oriented projects by FUHSD students and teachers. Learn more at the 2024 Climate Collective website.