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Environmental Literacy & Indoor Air Quality:
A Community Schools Based Response
Room: 207
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm
In California, indoor air quality is some of the worst in our nation leading to negative health consequences and sub-optimal environment for students and teachers. Paired with a lack of Environmental education, the community is unaware of the implications of indoor and outdoor air quality, pollutions, smog and wildfire particulates. By looking at our response through a lens of Community Schools, we will offer education to members of air quality standards, solutions that involve all stakeholders in the community, non-profit and government programs, and communication methods to involve parents and students. Students and teachers spend almost 8 hours a day 5 times a week in our classroom and it is crucial to address the air quality that our future generation and teachers/admin are spending a large portion of their day in.
How sure are we that we are creating a safe and optimal location for education to occur to both students and teachers. Please join us to learn more about indoor air quality, pollution around schools, and community schools based approaches to ensure the classroom is an optimal and safe learning environment for all.
Learning Objectives:
1) Learn About the determining factors of indoor and outdoor air quality, measuring techniques, PPM, indoor circulation.
2) Learn about the health implications of different type of indoor and outdoor air quality issues for students, teachers and parents.
3) Learn what can be done to promote optimal air quality standards in the classroom/school as well as the home.
4) Learn how to engage stakeholders as a community school; non-profits, government, parents, community members and opportunities there in.
Speakers:
Jonathan Mercado, Environmental Programs Manager, Breathe Southern California
Marc Carrel, President & CEO, Breathe Southern California
Jonathan Mercado, Manager of Environmental Programs, oversees environmental programs, education and community engagement initiatives related to environmental and clean technology for Breathe SoCal. He is currently the project lead for multiple government grants including; the California Air Resource Board and the California Energy Commission as well as partnerships that brings together community-based organizations, technology companies, and university researchers to implement air quality improving programs and community advocacy and environmental awareness. He is the lead on several other of Breathe SoCal’s community engagement projects, including NextEra Energy electric school bus-to-grid project, and guiding stakeholder education and engagement for the new EV charging hub supporting rideshare vehicles at Los Angeles International Airport.
Marc Carrel, President & CEO, joined Breathe Southern California in that role in 2017, and since then, has expanded the organization’s successful and impactful programming, broadened its service area (from one county to six counties), strengthened its advocacy efforts, and grown it budget. Prior to joining Breathe SoCal, Marc spent nearly a decade at the South Coast AQMD where he managed community and public affairs programs including coordinating briefings and workshops for civic leaders, government officials, and community members on air quality and clean technologies. He led the South Coast AQMD’s environmental justice (EJ) programs and planned their first three annual EJ conferences. He also oversaw federal government relations and public policy efforts where he established a national coalition to promote clean transportation technology and was successful in obtaining key provisions in two major federal transportation laws to make it easier to clean the air in Southern California.
