"Green Campuses"
Department of Energy Catalogs Schools Using Wind Power
Get a picture of how wind power has taken root in schools; visit the U.S. Department of Energy’s ‘Wind Energy for Schools Project Locations‘ web page.
The department has an on-line catalog of schools with operating or under construction wind power programs.
Renewable power clearly has taken root in education and it makes perfect sense. Sound environmental [...]
Emotion Trumps Reason in Student Effort to Conserve: Brooks School Students Use TellEmotion
In the ever present battle to stay aware-of and curb personal consumption, appealing to emotion may turn out to be a better motivator than our sense of reason. Students at Brooks School (Andover, MA) have turned to TellEmotion to help them stay on top of personal consumption and conservation.
In simplest terms, TellEmotion connects the well [...]
Western Independent Schools Meet and Explore Green Campus Ideas and Initiatives
We’ve published a few pieces on environmental initiatives of eastern boarding schools (Green Cup Challenge) and, not to ignore western schools, we just learned that Cate School hosted the Schools Going Green Conference back on January, 15th.
Faculty and students from 15 school convened for a day-long conference exploring the successes and future of campus environmental [...]
Philips Academy’s Environmental Commitment Includes the Entire Renovation Process from Demolition to Completion
In many cases, a construction or renovation project begins its commitment to renewal and efficiency with ‘new construction.” Philips Academy has consciously and thoughtfully pushed the reuse and renewal process a step further by including the reuse of materials from the old building into other projects around campus and the region.
Boards from an old [...]
Kimball Union Academy’s Conservation Featured on WCAX
WCAX reporter Adam Sullivan recently highlighted Kimball Union Academy’s participation in the Green Cup Challenge in a School Watch segment titled “Meriden School Going Green.”
As part of Green Cup Challenge, KUA students and faculty are working to raise the community’s environmental and energy consciousness. Students & faculty are reducing personal as well as school-wide environmental [...]
My Tour of Proctor Academy
I visited Proctor Academy this afternoon to meet with Chuck Will and learn more about his popular blog, Chuck’s Corner. We recorded a podcast interview that goes into a good bit of detail about the origins of the blog and how it has evolved over the years. I’ll post it to the site in the [...]
Read MoreProctor Academy’s Environmental Commitment Becomes Reality
With Peabody House, Proctor Academy’s new dormitory for 16 students and two faculty apartments, the school brings to life and ties together a history and growing commitment of stewardship to resources and the environment.
Proctor has a long history of environment connection and awareness through projects such as the school’s woodlot and efforts to become carbon [...]
Hillside School’s New Academic and Health Center Features Green Technology
Hillside School joins a growing roster of schools incorporating energy efficient green technology into their newest generation of buildings. The common thread among these schools is a growing dedication to environmental responsibility and stewardship.
Hillside’s Academic and Health Center features “specially tinted glass to better manage solar heating throughout the building; the implementation of recycled materials [...]
Trinity-Pawling School: A Year of Creative Dining
We came across a great story about Trinity-Pawling School’s dining hall renovation that will leave the school without a permanent dining room for the 2008-2009 academic year. The story of how the school will work through the renovation is a testament to planning and it’s just fun.
How do you feed the community while the dining [...]
Scattergood Friends School: Building Agricultural Self-Sufficiency and Local Food Webs
Students of Scattergood Friends School in West Branch, Iowa may be some the luckiest I know. They get to work with their hands, practice self-sufficiency and contribute to the local economy. With pasture, restored prairie, fields of corn and soy and a dedicated organic garden, Scattergood produces about one-half of its annual food [...]
Read MoreVermont Academy Commits to Carbon Footprint Reduction
On a recent visit to Vermont Academy, I found a school and students dedicated to environmental stewardship. VA student environmental work is beyond anything I participated in or saw during my high school days when students concentrated on bringing recycling to the forefront.
VA students are working to raise $40,000 to install a wind turbine on [...]
