This year we are increasing the cash prizes and the degree of difficulty. We are hoping the Eco Warriors from around the world will embrace this student-led Eco Challenge.
The challenges consist of two parts as indicated below:
Part 1: Seven Steps toward Proactive Sustainability
Part 2: One Big Step to Sustainable Super Abundance
Establish ROADMAP to achieve net zero by 2030 at 50% and by 2050 at 100%.
Roadmapping to net zero is the strategic process of developing a detailed, actionable plan to achieve a state where greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to as close to zero as possible, with any residual emissions offset by equivalent removals. typically by 2050.
It involves setting clear milestones, identifying key technologies (like renewable energy and carbon capture), implementing policy measures (such as carbon pricing), and fostering cross-sector collaboration to decarbonize industries, transportation, and energy systems. The roadmap prioritizes short-term actions, like energy efficiency improvements, alongside long-term innovations, ensuring alignment with global climate goals like the Paris Agreement while adapting to local economic and social contexts.
Roadmapping to net zero for a K-12 school involves creating a strategic plan to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, renewable energy adoption, and sustainable practices, aligning with global climate goals like achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. This process requires assessing the school’s carbon footprint, setting measurable reduction targets, and integrating actions such as upgrading to energy-efficient lighting and HVAC systems, installing solar panels, promoting waste reduction, and incorporating sustainability into the curriculum to educate students.
Our school is giving strong consideration to forming a sustainability committee with staff, students, and parents to conduct an energy audit, prioritize low-cost measures like LED lighting, seek grants for renewable energy projects, and partner with local environmental organizations for support. These steps will reduce emissions, lower operational costs, and position the school as a community leader in climate action while fostering an eco-conscious culture among students.
Eco-Acts at your school: Participate in One World’s Eco-Acts program.
Our goal here is to encourage your students to reduce their carbon footprint where possible over the course of one week. We therefore want to encourage you to encourage your students to reduce their carbon footprint over the course of one week by taking action such as walking to school, eating less red meat, etc, etc.
This document makes suggestions as to how your students might reduce and keep track of their footprint reductions: Eco-passport [English] (1).pdf
At the end of the week please total the number of eco-acts conducted in your school over any 7 day period between now and the close of the contest by May 30th.
Encourage school families to measure and reduce their household emissions
Households can use the same calculator and reduction guide included in Steps #1 and #2.
Please share the following info:
In this step, schools will commit to participating in Shaping the Global Coalition for Sustainable Super Abundance or to Building your Own Community 2050.
Our theme this year will be to continue the conversation on the future of humanity that we started in Acapulco, Mexico, in April 2025, continued at WGC USA’s 4th Annual Environment Day celebration on June 5th and are continuing in China this October and in Brazil this December.
For the first time in human history, dramatic and accelerating advances in technology have provided humanity with the clear capacity to achieve the post-scarcity world of Sustainable Super Abundance now available to us.
There are two ways you can participate in this one big step toward a post-scacrity world :
You can join the Global Coalition for Sustainable Super Abundance (GCSSA) or launch a Communities 2050 project in your community or both!!
The Global Coalition for Sustainable Super Abundance (GCSSA)
We are encouraging 100 school participants to commit to join our 2025 – 2026 global conversation on Sustainable Super Abundance. There are several ways you can participate in this conversation:
1. Encourage at least 2 educators and 4 student-leaders to participate in the bi-monthly global conversation on Sustainable Super Abundance.
2. Encourage the formation of a Sustainable Super Abundance Club at your school.
3. Host a One World Sustainable Super Abundance Presentation at your school.
4. Participate in the Conversation on the Future of Humanity
Communities 2050
The goal here is to unite your local community as never before with a view to building a community of Sustainable Super Abundance in your community. The expectation is that school districts whose mission is to prepare our youth for the future will take an important leadership role in this effort. WGC USA Communities 2050
Bonus Points 25 Points – Essay Contest
We are encouraging schools to participate in our Bonus Points essay contest. The essays which are not to surpass 2 pages are to explain how we get from where we are today, 193 competing nation-states armed to the teeth, to the world of abundance envisioned by the futurists. You can have as many students and teachers submit essays as you like.
The top two essays will secure bonus points, the top essay will gain 15 points for their school and the next essay will gain 10 points for their school. The number one essay will also receive a $300 prize.
