State Education and Environment Roundtable
Director of the State Education and Environment Roundtable, a nonprofit developed by 16 state departments of education to enhance environmental education in schools
PROFILE
Gerald Lieberman
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FROM Gerald Lieberman
Which Way, L.A.?
Should Business Provide the Messages Taught in Public Schools? Los Angeles County and San Francisco are among the California municipalities that have banned plastic bags on the grounds that they're bad for the environment. But an environmental curriculum used in some California public schools contains positive messages about plastic bags. They were inserted into a textbook at the request of the American Chemistry Council, which lobbied successfully against a statewide ban.
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