Earth Week 2025
We’ll be promoting activities all week, feel free to use these themes or make up your own. Show what you’re doing on these days of the week on Twitter/X and @austinisdgreen.
Active Transportation & Air Quality Activities 
Join Austin’s first-ever Kid-ical Mass Bike Ride!
The , , and are organizing Austin’s first-ever bike ride on April 26th from 9am-12pm at General Marshall Middle School. This ride is an all-ages-and-abilities 1.5-2 mile group ride around the Mueller neighborhood. Learn more and RSVP for the ride !
Explore the environment by bike with Ghisallo!
During Earth Week 2025, share this short 6-10 minute from . The presentation includes helmet fit, road safety, hand signals, and navigation skills to prepare students for riding. No lesson planning is needed and it can be incorporated during homeroom, PE class, or during an assembly.
Did you know?
The 91´ô¸ç Transportation Department is committed to providing safe, reliable and professional service for our students, while always aiming to be as environmentally friendly as possible! We have purchased 3 Electric School Buses. We will pilot these buses to see how to best implement a plan for more electric school buses in the future. The District has a to have a 100% Electric School Bus fleet by 2035 and this is the first step towards that goal! Don’t want to wait? Take a ride on one of the - ages 18 & under !
Protect young lungs
Help reduce harmful emissions and protect young lungs with a no-idling campaign at your school! Post and use these brochures in and and these to remind folks to turn the key and be idle-fee!
Be Air Smart
Purple Air sensors that monitor outdoor air quality are all over the globe, including Austin, and even some AISD schools! Check out the and use these to bring the data to life in the classroom through the program.
Reduce your home's carbon footprint
to identify opportunities to reduce emissions at home. Many of our daily activities - such as driving a car, using electricity, or disposing of waste - cause greenhouse gas emissions. Together these emissions make up a household's carbon footprint.
Tour the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) House
Tour the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) House for a glimpse of the most important ways to protect the air in your home. Room-by-room, you'll learn about the key pollutants and how to address them. The tour is available in and .
Take a fitness break!
with your favorite pro athlete. Play one-on-one with basketball star, Jewell Lloyd; show off your quick feet with soccer pro, Em Boateng, and more! Find even .