The Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program works with universities and colleges across California to help campuses save money, reduce energy usage and embrace sustainability. To do this, the Program helps bridge the divide between students and institutional energy costs. Student Green Campus teams work to save money on campus through the creation of energy [...]

SEI and Quantum Energy Services & Technologies (QuEST) jointly implemented Southern California Edison’s CHEER Program on private universities within Southern California Edison’s service territory.
CHEER helped reduce energy waste in California’s college and university housing and dining facilities by providing professional grade efficiency analyses, training and overseeing student interns and staff to conduct energy audits and [...]

SEI is currently supporting Dominican University of California’s launch of a regional sustainability certificate program.

SEI is the project lead in bringing together industry representatives, academics, and community partners at Skyline College and College of Marin to create a replicable certification program for professionals already working in solar or related industries. The program is funded through a grant from the California Community College State Chancellor’s office to the Center [...]

SEI developed the Green Demonstration Program to serve as a vehicle for providing innovative, cutting-edge approaches to greening college campuses, engaging students, and offering sustainable lifestyle best practices for the community.

SEI’s Green Workforce Internship program provides WIA eligible individuals with the skills to succeed in today’s burgeoning green workforce industry.

We engage students to take a leadership role in reducing green house gas emissions within their households and their communities.

This program teaches students about energy efficiency, auditing techniques and sustainable living so they can share their knowledge within their schools, area small-business owners, senior citizens, parents, and other community members to help them save money.

SEI and its partners, Conservation Corps North Bay, Marin Community Foundation, and Cool the Earth, implement a school-based carbon reduction campaign that educates Marin youth about global warming.

In this project, SEI facilitates a strategic planning process at each school, coordinating teachers, staff, parents, and students as they develop goals and strategies to implement sustainable practices at their schools and in their homes.

SEI is designing a high school certificate in energy efficiency and renewable energy that will help students understand and solve climate change issues.

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SEI’s staff works with K-6 children in an after-school or summer camp setting. We also train camp counselors and after school coordinators to provide the activities.

The PYC curriculum includes 16 units of project-based learning activities about climate protection and reducing energy use. SEI trains 4th and 5th grade teachers to integrate these activities into their classrooms; the curriculum aligns with California State Content Standards and Environmental Principles and Concepts.

SEI partners with MCR Performance Solutions LLC to develop school pledge programs for utilities. With this unique approach to energy savings, a utility engages students and their families in saving energy by offering energy lessons at school, a pledge program, and a toolkit to install energy-saving measures at home.

SEI handles California marketing and outreach for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Council’s Building Operator Certification (BOC) program, which is a nationally recognized training and certification program for building operators offering improved job skills and more comfortable, energy-efficient facilities.

SEI staff and student assistants provided sustainability audits at the Marin Community Foundation and the Center for Regional and Continuing Education at California State University, Chico.