USGBC Launches Green Schools Web Site
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has launched a web site that gives managers, students, parents, teachers, school administrators, elected officials and community members a new resource to help ensure a future of green schools.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has launched a web site that gives managers, students, parents, teachers, school administrators, elected officials and community members a new resource to help ensure a future of green schools.
The site,
Build Green Schools, offers facts on the benefits and costs of green schools, including the ways green schools foster learning, decrease student and teacher absenteeism from respiratory and other illnesses, reduce energy and water bills, and provide models for teaching sustainability to benefit communities.
It also offers profiles of schools that have gone green, examples of policies governments and school districts have instituted to ensure future schools are green, an extensive list of resources and links, and a social networking site for visitors to share their experiences, best practices, and creative ideas.
Greening all school construction also would create more than 2,000 new jobs each year from increased use of energy-efficient technologies.
Green schools use as much natural daylight as possible, maximizing students’ ability to concentrate and stay physically and emotionally healthy, while dramatically reducing energy costs and greenhouse-gas emissions. Green schools use 33 percent less energy and 32 percent less water on average than conventional schools.
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