Hug High Goes Idle Free

Rebecca Anderson

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August 28, 2014

That’s right — Idle Free Schools has struck again. This time it was Proctor R. Hug High School in Reno, Nevada. With support from Hug High science teacher Tammy Nechita and ACE Climate Action Fellow Alicia Wong, ACE Director of Education Rebecca Anderson met up with Hug High students outside their school last week and installed three beautiful Idle Free signs along the curb where cars and buses line up after school. By becoming an Idle Free School, Hug High parents, students, staff and bus drivers are committing to not idling their car, truck or bus while on school grounds. It’s a small action but not idling saves money and gas as well as CO2. It also makes for cleaner air and healthier lungs for all the students at Hug. Hug High joins a growing list of 13 other Washoe County schools in the Reno-Sparks area that have gone Idle Free. Congrats, Hug!

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Rebecca Anderson

Chief Education and Research Officer

Rebecca is ACE’s Senior Head of Education and Research. She came to ACE in its inception in 2008. Rebecca develops ACE's science content, manages ACE’s online climate education resource, Our Climate Our Future, and ACE's teacher network and works with schools in the Reno-Tahoe area. Prior to ACE, she did paleoclimate research in the Arctic and Antarctica.

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