Speaking Engagements
United Nations - World Environment Day, 1989
Environmental Protection Agency - Washington, D.C.
United Nations Youth Forum - 1990
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
New York Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation - Albany, NY
Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders
Peacechild International Europe Conference - Netherlands, 1990
“To Give and Learn” Awards Banquet, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
General Assembly of New Jersey - “NJ Earth Day 2000: Legislative Strategies for Environmental Survival,” Trenton, NJ
Quality of Life Conference, Health Environment Department, Columbia, SC
Alliance for Environmental Education Conference - “Gateway to an International Network for Environmental Education,” Washington, D.C.
‘HELP Save our Environment” conference - Scottsdale, AZ
“Working Together” - Labor and the Environment - Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
NJEA Environmental Workshop, Atlantic City, NJ
NJEA Earth Day Workshop - Liberty State Park, NJ, 1990
New Jersey State Bar Association Conference, May 1992
Television and Radio Coverage
NBC TV News - Connie Collins
NBC TV - Sunday Today in New York
CNN Business News
CNBC - The Real Story
ABC - Good Morning America
USA Network
Showtime
Cablevision of New Jersey
Vision Cable of New Jersey
Channel 6, Morristown
French Television, Channel 2 - Paris, France
1010 WINS NY
WOR TV
WNSR - MIX 105FM
Magazine and Periodical Coverage
U.S. News and World Report - January 22, 1990
Your Town Record
Patagonia Catalog
Environmental Amendment Circular No. 4 - June 1991
National Education Association Newspaper (NEA)
New Jersey Education Association (NJEA Review)
Working Mother Magazine - April 1990
Garbage Magazine
National Wildlife Federation - “Conservation 90”
Ocean County Observer
Bergen County Kids
Northern Valley News
The Record
Book Coverage
“Garbage” by Evan Hadingham (Science Editor for PBS Nova Science Series)
“Save the Earth” - an Action handbook for kids , by Betty Miles and Alfred Knopf, New York
“The Kids Guide to Social Action” by Barbara A. Lewis, Free Spirit Publishing
“Kids in Action” 8th Grade Social Studies textbook and teaching videos.
Awards
President’s Environmental Youth Award
New Jersey School Board - “School Leader Award”
National Award Winner - “Take Pride in America,” President Bush’s Thousand Points of Light contest
Winning Curriculum Ideas (100 Most Creative Ideas in North America), American School Board Journal and the Executive Educator
United Nations Environmental Award
Youth Environmental Society Award
Environmental Achievement Award - Association of New Jersey Environmental Commission
New Jersey State Assembly Award
Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders Award
New Jersey Governor’s Grant Recipient
A+ for Kids Award (WOR TV)
“To Give and Learn” Award for most outstanding teacher in directed community service (presented by IBM and U.S.News and World Report)
School Leader Award - New Jersey School Board
Legislative and Other Accomplishments
Sponsorship of Environmental Bill of Rights by Assemblyman John Rooney to the New Jersey State Constitution - ACR 62
Sponsorship of Environmental Bill of Rights by Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. to the Constitution of the United States
Achieved Banning of Plastic Foam Products in New Jersey Schools
Achieved Banning of Plastic Foam Products in the Community
Involvement in Cloister Clean Up Day
Involvement in Clean Ocean Action: Beach Clean-up Day
Involvement in Bergen County Utilities Authority “Recycling in the Park” Festival, 1990
Sponsor of 1st Annual Environmental Rights Day, 1989
Sponsor of 2nd Annual Environmental Rights Day, 1990
Sponsor of 3rd Annual Environmental Rights Day, 1991
Sponsor of 4th Annual Environmental Rights Day, 1992
Achieved instituting the use of recycled paper in Cloister school district
Achieved instituting the use of recycled paper in Community
Collaboration with Ritsiko Yamada from Nagoya, Japan. KAP Youth studies eco-advocacy. 1998
1992 - MA KAP @ Rio Earth Summit
1994 - Moves to Newport NY
1995 - KAP brought first youth to Earth Day Lobby Day
KAP Youth participates in World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg South Africa. Students assist in creating official global youth energy policy and adopt Tree Of Life project.