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University of Massachusetts Amherst / adaptiveNOW.com (2011).

The UMass Permaculture Initiative is a unique, cutting-edge sustainability program that converts unproductive grass lawns on campus into ecological, socially responsible, and financially sustainable permaculture landscapes that are easy to replicate. Since the Initiative’s inception, over 1,500 volunteers have come together to design, implement, and maintain our three gardens. Through community support and a partnership with UMass Dining Services, the UMass Permaculture Gardens provide the campus dining halls with more than a thousand pounds of hyper-local, organic food each year. Permaculture is a natural fit in a campus setting. UMass's highly visible gardens are an excellent educational tool and provide opportunities for service-learning on campus. In addition to implementing gardens, UMass Permaculture offers a range of community building events, workshops, and educational opportunities to engage UMass and broader communities around regenerative and resilient communities and ecosystems. For more information, visit www.UMassPermaculture.com

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National Education Association Health Information Network (2011).

School athletic facilities pose a special risk for spreading infectious diseases such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) because of the potential for skin-to-skin and surface-to-skin contact among students and athletes. A comprehensive cleaning program with a written protocol for infection control can help prevent the spread of pathogens (germs) that cause infectious diseases in athletic areas and throughout the entire school. It also ensures that facilities use the most appropriate products and procedures available for the task to help avoid exposing product users and other building occupants to potential health hazards.

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Romeo, J. (2011). 50 (11)

Restroom technology and design in today's K-12 school environment have several points of concern for school boards as well as those who design and build them. These include the cost of materials and insuring that the restroom is design to conserve resources such as accessories and supplies. The article presents how planners and designers need to consider fixtures and products, within K-12 restrooms, as an integral part of the school's community and total school environment.

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Efficient Window Collaborative (2011).

Efficient Windows Collaborative detailed a fact sheet of efficient window design as an important opportunity to save energy, money, and enhance the learning environment. The fact sheet further provides information on financing energy-efficient retrofits, including window design.

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Earthman, G., & Lemasters, L. K. (2011). 1 (1)

The theory-based program presented in this paper can be considered a paradigm, a model to investigate how school buildings influence their users. The paradigm consists of a series of relationships that explain how school authorities are responsible for the condition of the school building and how the condition of the school building influences faculty, administrators, parents, and students. Further, it explains how the condition of the building influences the attitudes and achievement of the students who attend school in the building. Theory in the field of educational administration is used to try to explain, in the absence of empirical evidence, how humans and organizations behave. The theoretical model used in this paradigm tries to explain human phenomena related to how the physical environment influences humans. The model explains how school buildings come to be in their current conditions and how the conditions then influence school staff, parents, and students.

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Steiner, J. (2011). 1

This paper presents a regression model that analyzes the effects of school enrollment and schools per district on costs per pupil and standardized test passing ates in Indiana elementary and secondary schools. This model employed data from the Indiana Department of Education and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The results showed that districts with more schools had higher costs per pupil and that a school’s enrollment had no significant effect on student achievement. In addition, the results suggest that school consolidation could cut costs while not necessarily lowering student achievement levels. // Steiner, J. (2011). Are big schools bad schools? Measuring the effects of the number and size of schools on district costs and student achievement. Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research, 1, 46 – 51.

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Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) (2011).

This topical report addresses the characteristics of university housing fires reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) between 2007 and 009 and is an update to the topical report, University Housing Fires (Volume 10, Issue 1, released June 2010). From 2007 to 2009, an estimated 3,800 university housing fires occurred in the United States each year. These fires account for approximately 1 percent of total residential building fires responded to by fire departments across the United States. University housing fires resulted in a yearly average of 0 deaths, 25 injuries, and $9 million in property loss.

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Abramson, P. (2011).

Total school construction fell in 2010, but even so, more than $14.5 billion dollars of construction was put in place making schools one of the largest construction markets in the United States. The SP&M Construction Report provides information on expenditures for new construction, additions and retrofits in the U.S. It addition, it provides regional and national medians and a profile of what these new school will provide.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst / adaptiveNOW.com (2011).

The UMass Permaculture Initiative is a unique, cutting-edge sustainability program that converts unproductive grass lawns on campus into ecological, socially responsible, and financially sustainable permaculture landscapes that are easy to replicate. Since the Initiative’s inception, over 1,500 volunteers have come together to design, implement, and maintain our three gardens. Through community support and a partnership with UMass Dining Services, the UMass Permaculture Gardens provide the campus dining halls with more than a thousand pounds of hyper-local, organic food each year. Permaculture is a natural fit in a campus setting. UMass's highly visible gardens are an excellent educational tool and provide opportunities for service-learning on campus. In addition to implementing gardens, UMass Permaculture offers a range of community building events, workshops, and educational opportunities to engage UMass and broader communities around regenerative and resilient communities and ecosystems. For more information, visit www.UMassPermaculture.com

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National Education Association Health Information Network (2011).

School buses are mobile environments that are prone to the spread of infectious diseases such as colds and the flu. In addition to the number of students who may introduce bacteria and viruses when they board the bus, surfaces such as the seat backs and handrails can also contribute to the further spread of germs. A comprehensive cleaning program with a written protocol for infection control can help prevent the spread of pathogens (germs) that cause infectious diseases in athletic areas and throughout the entire school. It also ensures that facilities use the most appropriate products and procedures available for the task to help avoid exposing product users and other building occupants to potential health hazards.

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