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Green Schools
John Henry
Educational Information and Resource Center (EIRC)
USGBC Green School Advocate
[email protected]
www.greenschoolsforteachers.wikispaces.com
Green School /grEn skül / n. a school building or
facility that creates a healthy environment that is
conducive to learning while saving energy, resources
and money
The Human Built
Environment
Currently, Sustainable
Practices are an option, not a
way of life
The Road to Copenhagen
a Climate Change
Initiative
1273 Wood- and coal-burning fires shroud
English towns in smoke. Local regulations
attempt to control the problem but fail.
Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are
about 280 parts per million (ppm).
1750 Industrial Revolution begins in
Manchester, England.
Coal powers the mills.
1899 America's first environmental law is
passed. The Rivers and Harbors Act
makes it a misdemeanor to dump refuse
into navigable waters without a permit.
1904 America's first solar-powered electrical
plant is built in St. Louis by the Willsie Sun
Power Company.
Soon another plant is built, in the Mojave
Desert at Needles, California. But within a
few years Willsie is driven out of business
by cheaper coal/gas facilities.
1937 The term "greenhouse effect" is coined
by Glenn Thomas Trewartha, a professor
whose obscure textbook on weather
describes how water vapor, CO2 and
other gases act like glass in a greenhouse.
1948 Smog chokes the small industrial town
of Donora, Pennsylvania. In five days
twenty people die, and 6,000 are sick or
hospitalized.
Air pollution becomes a national political
issue.
1952 London smog, the product of a thermal
inversion, kills 4,000 people in two weeks.
Four years later, England's Clean Air Act
becomes law.
1958 Atmospheric CO2 concentrations
reach 315 ppm. In Hawaii, Dr. Charles
Keeling begins the first continuous longterm study of atmospheric CO2 levels.
1963 First Clean Air Act in the US is
passed into law.
American smokestacks are subjected to
pollution controls.
1970 First Earth Day, one of the largest
demonstrations in US history, is held.
1969-73 The National Environmental Policy
Act, the Clean Water Act and the
Endangered Species Act all become law.
The Environmental Protection Agency is
created.
1972 First UN conference on the
environment is held. The United Nations
Environment Program is created.
It will be the framework for international
cooperation on environmental issues.
1973 Arab oil embargo begins. Oil prices
quadruple.
1978 Fuel-economy regulations are
introduced in the United States for
passenger vehicles. New cars must now
get at least eighteen miles per gallon.
1979 Revolution in Iran sends oil prices
surging, prompts "second oil crisis."
Carter installs a solar-powered water heater
on the White House roof
1981 Election of Ronald Reagan brings
environmental backlash. Interior
Secretary. Federal grants for solar energy
are slashed.
The solar water heater on the White House
is junked. America's nascent alternative
energy industry collapses.
1985 - The Alliance For NJ Environmental
Education is Founded (ANJEE)
1985 Hole in the ozone layer is discovered over
Antarctica.
1986 Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 reach
350 ppm.
1988 Senator Al Gore holds hearings on
climate change.
NASA climate scientist James Hansen predicts
rising sea levels and dangerous extreme
weather by the end of the next century if fossil
fuel consumption is not drastically reduced.
1988 UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) is created
1994 - The Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) began its
development founded and spearheaded by
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
senior scientist
Robert K. Watson
1997 Kyoto Protocol is negotiated. Industrialized
countries agree to reduce their collective
greenhouse gas emissions to 5.2 percent below
1990 levels by 2012.
US Senate refuses to ratify Kyoto.
In 2000, US Green Building Council established
the Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) rating system as a way to define
and measure “Green Buildings.”
July, 2000
State of New Jersey
Executive Order #24
Governor James E. McGreevey
Designates that all new school design shall
incorporate the guidelines developed by the US
Green Building Council known as Leadership in
Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) to achieve
maximum energy efficiency and environmental
sustainability in the design of schools.
2001 President George W. Bush renounces the
Kyoto Protocol as bad for the US economy.
Other nations carry on without the United States
and continue their
ratifications of the treaty.
2005 Kyoto treaty comes into effect and is eventually
ratified by all major industrial
nations except the United States.
Work to reduce emissions accelerates in Japan,
Western Europe and even among some US state and
local governments.
2007 Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
2007 International Monetary Fund (IMF)
estimates cost of stabilizing greenhouse gases
at $1.8 trillion.
Green Buildings could be considered
Economic Stimulus
The process of greening a school building
can be considered the ultimate teaching and
learning lab
2006-2007 the US Green Building Council - Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) for Schools is created)
2007 Green Schools Advocacy Campaign begins
LEED promotes a whole-building approach to
sustainability by recognizing performance in five
key areas of human and environmental health:
• sustainable site development
• water savings
• energy efficiency
• materials selection
• indoor environmental quality
LEED for Schools is…
A nationally recognized benchmark for building and
maintaining green schools that recognizes the unique
nature of K-12 environments
In school terms, LEED is like a report card for buildings,
demonstrating to the community that a facility is built
and/or operated in a way that supports the health and
wellbeing of occupants and saves energy, resources,
and money
LEED for Schools…
Provides comprehensive tools for schools that wish
to build green or transition an existing building with
measurable results
In order to achieve the vision of “green
schools for every child within a generation,”
we must not only build new schools that are
green, we have to transform our
Existing Schools.
The Transition is about Leadership
Making the Case For Green Schools
Be the Advocate…
if not you who - if not now when
Why are Green Schools
Important?
Why is it important?
Healthier Schools at Lower Cost
Connecting Sustainability and Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Rising Above the Gathering Storm
Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic
Future
Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An
Agenda for American Science and Technology, National Academy of
Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine
FINDINGS
Having reviewed trends in the United States and abroad,
the committee is deeply concerned that the scientific and
technological building blocks critical to our economic
leadership are eroding at a time when many other
nations are gathering strength.
Sustainability Fuels STEM
We designed and engineered our way into these problems, we
can design and engineer our way out
Our challenge and opportunity for greening our schools
and obtaining a sustainable future
can be viewed as
the 21st Century Sputnik
The Role of the
Government in
Advancing the Green
Economy
Clean Energy
Sales
Planting green jobs
Solar Jobs
Businesses, ventures and proposals that could help satisfy
new renewable energy requirements
Green Jobs Defined
Green jobs involve environmentally friendly
products and services or businesses and
organizations that concern themselves with
improving the environment.
NJ BPU
What is Sustainability?
Understanding Sustainability … A Prerequisite for any
Green Career
What is Sustainability?
In July 2009, NJ was selected by the US Department of
Education to participate along with four other states in a
Technical Assistance Academy to develop a “Green”
Program of Study for career and technical education.
The New Jersey Council of County Vocational-Technical
Schools (NJCCVTS) and the New Jersey Department of
Education (NJDOE)
What is Sustainability?
Solar Energy and other renewable
Energy Sources
Conservation
Generation
Career and Technical Education Pathways
Retraining Programs
How Do You Transform Your School?
Create the Pathway Unique to Your School
Strategic Planning
Random Acts of Improvement in Isolation
“Better” Random Improvement- with local community
collaboration
Intentional and Strategic Improvements with
regional collaboration
4/8/2017
The Systems of the School Building as a
Framework for Teaching and Learning
Create Units and Lesson plans using
the existing framework of USGBC LEED Rating System
INDOOR
ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY
GOAL:
HUMAN HEALTH
MATERIALS &
RESOURCES
GOAL:
NATURAL RESOURCE
CONSERVATION
ENERGY &
ATMOSPHERE
GOAL:
CONSERVATION &
RENEWABLE SOURCES
SUSTAINABLE SITES
GOAL:
UNDERSTANDING
HABITATS &
HUMAN IMPACT
WATER
EFFICIENCY
GOAL:
CONSERVATION &
REUSE
Know What Resources are Available
EIRC
DEP
ANJEE
Educators
LSC
DOE
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In 2008 the USGBC-NJ Chapter
established the Green Schools
Committee - a unique combination of
Green Building Industry Professionals,
Environmental Educators, and
Government Agencies
Robert Gillman, editor of the In Context Magazine,
extends this goal oriented definition by stating
"sustainability refers to a very old and simple
concept (The Golden Rule)...do onto future
generations as you would have them do onto
you.
William McDonough
Thank You
John Henry
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