Five New Orleans Schools to Receive Energy Efficiency Aid
The first of five schools in the Green Seed School program has been chosen to receive help implementing energy efficiency upgrades.
The first of five schools in the
Green Seed School program has been chosen to receive help implementing energy efficiency upgrades.
Global Green USA selected A.P. Tureaud Elementary school in New Orleans as the first Green Seed School. The Green Seed School program is funded in part by a grant from the Bush Clinton Katrina Fund.
Each school chosen will first receive an energy and indoor air quality audit which will then serve as a road map for targeted energy and air quality upgrades at the schools. Global Green USA will provide funding to enable the schools to implement many of the needed upgrades.
School officials will also receive guides for maintaining energy efficiency in the school. These guides are meant both to help the school continue to identify energy saving strategies, and also to help communicate energy saving techniques for use beyond the schools.
At A.P. Tureaud, an energy audit indicates a need to reduce electrical lighting, monitor air quality, and to repair windows that do not close properly.
Based on the audit, Global Green is considering plans (to be finalized with the final energy audit) to eliminate many unnecessary light fixtures, add devices that will adjust electrical lights depending on the adequacy of natural light, and provide a master control system that will make it easier to shut lights off at night. Motion detectors may also be provided to address security needs and allow security personnel to move around the school building at night.
"These upgrades in the Green Seed Schools here will serve as an opportunity to help educate students, teachers and the community of how important sustainable green schools are for the benefit of students, and for the rebirth of New Orleans," says Global Green USA CEO Matt Petersen.
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