Google Workspace for Education sustainability

Education technology that’s easy to use – and easy on the planet.  Provide a secure and inclusive digital learning environment for your school, built with industry-leading sustainable practices and commitments.

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Education technology that is easy to use and easy on the planet

Google for Education has environmentally friendly options for your school.  Paperless classrooms and remote learning.  With Chromebooks you get affordable, versatile, durable devices.  ChomeOS Flex can re-energise Macs and PCs.

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Google for Education in support of sustainability

Build on your future forward efforts

Build on your future forward efforts

Leverage Google innovation to build a foundation for your school:

  • Use tools powered by some of the most energy-efficient data centres worldwide
  • Google is working towards its ambitious goal to run on 24/7 carbon-free energy on every grid where they operate by 2030
  • Google works with many future-thinking suppliers, and are partnering with them to develop decarbonisation roadmaps and build essential data infrastructure to accurately quantify emissions and reductions across the value chain.
Teach and learn with more sustainable tools

Teach and learn with more sustainable tools

Invest in resources built responsibly and made to last so that you can get more from using less:

  • Get the most out of devices with long life spans thanks to durable design, 10 years of Chromebook automatic updates, and repairable components.
  • Get the most out of devices with long life spans thanks to durable design, 10 years of Chromebook automatic updates, and repairable components.
  • More energy efficient with adaptive charging and battery saver to maximise battery life.
  • With 10 years of automatic updates, get more out of devices that are easily repairable or repurposed, and can be recycled.
Educate and enable climate action

Educate and enable climate action

Make more sustainable choices with easy-to-use tools:

  • Chromebooks are made to be securely sharable ““ enabling schools to reduce their consumption while increasing sustainability efforts.
  • Implement tools that help your school go paperless or decrease travel.
  • Use curriculum resources to help educate about the planet and climate change

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Reduce environmental impact, and promote a culture of sustainabilty.

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ChromeOS Flex

Transform your existing Macs and PCs with ChromeOS Flex to help extend the life of older hardware.

Chromebook automatic updates

Chromebooks receive 10 years of automatic updates “” more than any other operating system commits to today.

Teaching students to live sustainably should be an imperative part of your curriculum. Leverage our tools and proposed lesson plans to help educate about eco-friendly living:

Earth Day lesson plans
Teach about the environment and take action while building new digital skills with Earth Day projects. Learn more 

Your plan, your planet
Build lessons around and calculate how our everyday actions contribute to our ecological footprint. Learn more

Science buddies lesson plans on sustainability
Free-of-cost science lesson plans designed to engage students through hands-on experiments and activities. Learn more

Plastic in our oceans
Lesson plan to help develop critical thinking skills using Google for Education tools to address the issue of reducing plastic in the oceans. Learn more

These tools can be used in everyday life and to spark additional curriculum ideas:

Google Earth
Explore the earth with latitude and longitude, or use timelapse to demonstrate issues like receding glaciers.

Project Sunroof
Compute how much solar energy your school can produce. Learn more

Timelapse
See how the earth has changed over the past 37 years. Learn more

Global Forest Watch
Explore data and tools for forest protection. Learn more

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Contact us to learn more about Google’s sustainability efforts.

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