Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment's 12th annual conference on September 19, 2014. Presentation: Greening Our Nation's K-12 Schools. Presented by Bryna Dunn, AICP, LEED Fellow, Vice President Director of Sustainability Planning and Design, Moseley Architects.
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Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting
Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment's 12th annual conference on September 19, 2014. Presentation: Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting. Presented by Victoria Leonard, RN, MSN, PhD, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit of California, San Francisco.
Green Revolving Funds: An Introductory Guide to Implementation & Management
(ICF International, 2013). The goal of this introductory implementation guide is to provide practical guidance for designing, implementing, and managing a green revolving fund (GRF) at a college, university, or other institution. The GRF model is widespread in higher education, with at least 79 funds in operation in North America representing over $111 million in committed investment as of late 2012.
Green Cleaning Schools
(Posted on October 15, 2014). At a time when the number of students with asthma has reached new highs—and when states and districts are increasingly focused on the importance of maximum attendance—the emergence of new, greener products and processes for cleaning schools is now making it possible to provide significantly healthier buildings for students and staff. And it can be done without burdening school budgets.
Principals head back into classroom for lessons about green schools
(Posted on October 8, 2014.)
Bowie principals were students once again during a forum at City Hall where they learned about incorporating environmental education at all levels in the classroom. The Green Forum for Bowie Principals was hosted by the Bowie Green Team, a committee of volunteer environmental advocates, to help principals trek the path to Green School certification.
School Districts Explore Solutions For Excessive Portable Classroom Use
(Posted August, 29, 2014). SPOKANE, Wash. — Teachers at Spokane’s Jefferson Elementary don’t have to look far to know what they left behind.
The school’s old portable classrooms sit just a block away from their brand new building. It was in those portables where for nearly 30 years, Nancy Avery made the choice between fresh air and listening to her students, when she’d routinely switch off the noisy ventilation system that drowned out their voices.
(Posted August, 29, 2014). SPOKANE, Wash. — Teachers at Spokane’s Jefferson Elementary don’t have to look far to know what they left behind.
The school’s old portable classrooms sit just a block away from their brand new building. It was in those portables where for nearly 30 years, Nancy Avery made the choice between fresh air and listening to her students, when she’d routinely switch off the noisy ventilation system that drowned out their voices.
Why Portables?
span style="color: #222222;">Presented by EarthFix Media.
Portable, modular or relocatable classrooms -- whatever you call them -- are a necessity for schools. Students don't come in class-size packages of 25 to 30 and budgets are tight. But many portables become permanent fixtures, in place for decades at a time. Costly and insufficient, these aging structures burden the grid, frustrate teachers and administrators and compromise student health. EarthFix examines the extent of the problem, how it happened and what can be done about it. (Posted August 29, 2014)
A look at Northside Elementary School’s LEED Platinum facility
(2014). Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill, N.C., has become the first elementary school in the state to cinch LEED Platinum certification. (Posted on August 13, 2014).
(2014). Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill, N.C., has become the first elementary school in the state to cinch LEED Platinum certification. (Posted on August 13, 2014).
Greening Schools: Grand Rapids gets fellow to drive transformation of buildings
Monica Scott, (2014). GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Kristen Trovillion is Grand Rapids Public Schools' new Green Schools Fellow, working with leaders to provide clear direction, training and resources to bring sustainable and environmentally responsible practices into schools. (Posted on August 12, 2014).
Monica Scott, (2014). GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Kristen Trovillion is Grand Rapids Public Schools' new Green Schools Fellow, working with leaders to provide clear direction, training and resources to bring sustainable and environmentally responsible practices into schools. (Posted on August 12, 2014).
How to introduce the concept of blue cleaning to custodial staff.
Jill Nolan (2014). When Allen Rudd first told his staff at the Temple University Health Sciences Campus that they would abandon the chemicals they had long used and start cleaning with tap water, they didn’t exactly boil over with enthusiasm. Rudd, who is the director of custodial services, was instead met with the expected skepticism. (Posted on August 6, 2014).
Jill Nolin (2014). When Allen Rudd first told his staff at the Temple University Health Sciences Campus that they would abandon the chemicals they had long used and start cleaning with tap water, they didn’t exactly boil over with enthusiasm. Rudd, who is the director of custodial services, was instead met with the expected skepticism. (Posted on August 7, 2014).
