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Everblue Training Institute's Comprehensive Green Building Curriculum

October 24, 2011 Add Comment Edit

As the nation’s leading green educator, Everblue Training Institute has the primary goal of helping people to succeed in the green economy. Whether to earn professional certification or for personal edification, at Everblue people can learn everything they need to know about sustainable, green building principles and practices.

Everblue’s mission is to build the earth’s sustainable workforce. Their efforts are premised on the belief that education for a clean energy economy promotes energy security, increases prosperity, and safeguards the health of the environment.

Everblue believes that everyone wins with sustainability. Owners benefit with comfort, health, and savings. The environment benefits with increased density, reduced sprawl, and decreased greenhouse gas emissions. Nations benefit by reducing their dependence on foreign oil.

Realizing the impact that homes and buildings have upon the environment and quality of life issues, Everblue is committed to helping people understand and build sustainably certified homes and buildings. Everblue is dedicated to improving US energy security by reducing its dependence on foreign oil while simultaneously tackling the environmental, climate, security, and economic challenges of the 21st century.

Everblue is the world's premier LEED training firm, the nation's largest BPI Certification training organization and the largest USGBC Educational Portfolio Provider.

Approved by the American Institute of Architects, Everblue offers courses in 94 cities nationwide and 7 countries internationally at many prestigious colleges and universities.

Everblue's veteran founded, accredited educational institution offers an extensive sustainable building curriculum, that includes multiple BPI Certifications, Renewable Energy Training, Weatherization Training, RESNET HERS Rater, LEED Accredited Professional, (LEED Certification & LEED Exam Prep), RESNET HERS Rater, Solar Training (NABCEP Solar Certification), Wind Energy, Energy Auditor, Corporate Sustainability, Carbon Accounting, Corporate Sustainability, and more.

Here are links to some of the more popular Courses:
BPI Certification / Energy Auditor
Solar and Wind Energy Training
LEED Green Associate Exam Prep
LEED Credential Maintenance
RESNET HERS Rater
Solar Bootcamp with NABCEP Exam
Corporate Sustainability Manager
Renewable Energy Training

To go to the Everblue site click here.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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The Green Market's Green School Series 2011

October 17, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Each year The Green Market puts together a summary of information and resources on green schools. This series reflects the importance of the green schools movement to contribute to the growth of the global economy and the health of the planet.

Last year over 60 posts came together to create The Green Market's Green Schools Series 2010. This year there are a total of more than 70 posts in the series. In addition to the posts on sustainable education and green building, a new section on grants, programs and awards has been included for 2011.

SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION

Searchable Environmental Education Resources
Sierra's 2011 List of Cool Green Schools Points West
The Princeton Review's 2012 Top Green Schools Honor Role
Fiske's Top 10 Colleges for Environmental Education
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US Green MBA Program Directory
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Social Business at Blue Planet Life
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Stony Brook University's Sustainability focused BA Degrees
Sustainable Certificates from Irvine Valley College
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Course Descriptions for Green Courses at San Diego State University College of Extended Studies
Green Education at San Diego State University College of Extended Studies
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The University of Washington’s Certificate in Green IT
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GREEN SCHOOL BUILDINGS

Green School Buildings Offer Many Benefits
The Campus Green Builder Online Portal
Organizations and Groups in the USGBC's Center for Green Schools
USGBC's Center for Green Schools
The Federal Government's Green Ribbon Schools
The Green Market's Green Schools Series 2010
USGBC's Green School Building Resources
Environmental Revolution: Building and Operations
The Extraordinary Growth of Green Building
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The Basic Elements of a Green College
A Green School is a High Performance School
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Green Building Economic Benefits Green Building Social Benefits
Green School Buildings: The Many Benefits of Natural Lighting
Green School Buildings: The Many Benefits of Ventilation
The Future of Green School Buildings
Green Campus Student Resources
Obama's Jobs Plan Emphasizes Education and Greener Schools
The Green School's Bamboo Architecture
The UK's Sandal Magna Community Primary School
Princeton is Building the Largest Solar Array of Any University
Solar Powered Schools In California
Bill Increases Energy Efficiency in Oregon's Schools
NYU's Energy Efficient Power Generation
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GREEN SCHOOL GRANTS PROGRAMS AND AWARDS

The Federal Government's Green Ribbon Schools
Schools Investing in Green and Creating Sustainable Jobs
The 2011 AASHE Campus Sustainability Awards
WWF-Canada's Green CommUnity School Grants Program
Chill Out: Climate Action on Campus
Campus Consortium for Environmental Excellence
The Global Green USA Green School Makeover Competition
Energy Efficiency: Obama's Jobs Act and the Green Schools Program
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University of Maryland Wins Solar Decathlon
Inhabitat Interview with the Winning Lead Designer of the 2011 Solar Decathlon
Paperless Future: BenchPrep is Taking Textbooks and Study Groups Online
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Australia's National Solar Schools Program
Zerofootprint Challenge is Greening Schools
Sustainable University IdeaLab Workshop for College Students

MICELANEOUS GREEN SCHOOL INFORMATION

How to Start a School Recycling Program
50 Common Eco-Crimes Committed By College Students
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College Students Touring the Nation to Promote Sustainability

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

The University of Washington’s Certificate in Green IT

October 14, 2011 Add Comment Edit

The University of Washington’s Professional and Continuing Education department is now offering a Certificate in Green IT. The certificate teaches students about the role information technology plays in sustainability and the development of future triple bottom line business models.

The Certificate in Green IT is an online, non-accredited program with low tuition cost ($2700) and teaches an integrated spectrum of green IT related issues. The program covers a wide range of topics including life cycle assessment, creating Green IT baselines, and stakeholder engagement for transformative change.

Admission requirements consist of little more than a minimum of one year in or associated with an IT department. With an increasing number of companies planning to reduce their IT energy requirements A background in Green IT positions students for the future.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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The Green School's Bamboo Architecture

October 04, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Bamboo is widely recognized as a sustainable building material because it is robust and fast growing. Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy showcased bamboo in their Green School in Bali, Indonesia. The on campus buildings are constructed completely from sustainably-harvested bamboo and they are powered by renewable energy systems. Due to its sustainability, the Green School is on the short-list for the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture.

The Green School is the result of a partnership with architecture firm PT Bambu and the non-profit Meranggi Foundation, which develops bamboo plantations by presenting seedlings to local rice farmers. PT Bambu is an architecture firm that specializes in bamboo architecture. The bamboo portion of the Green School’s campus consists of four classrooms, a drop-off center, faculty housing, offices, cafes, bathrooms, a gym, and the Heart of the School, a spiraling, multi-story building for school functions.

Along with bamboo construction, the eco-school’s curriculum focuses on sustainability and offers many scholarships to local Balinese children. The campus also includes an organic garden and utilizes a number of renewable energy systems, including a bamboo sawdust hot water and cooking system, a hydro-powered vortex generator, and solar panels.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved

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Princeton is Building the Largest Solar Array of Any University

September 13, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Princeton University is planning to build a 27-acre solar field consisting of 16,500 photovoltaic panels making it the largest solar field for any US college or university. It will produce enough energy to power 700 households. The EPA estimates that the solar array is equivalent of taking more than 1,200 cars off the road, which translates to a reduction of 3,090 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year.

The solar array is part of Princeton’s 2008 sustainability plan to reduce its carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. SunPower Corp. is buidling the solar array, which will produce at least 8 million kilowatts per year, while powering more than 5 percent of the school's power requirements and reducing energy costs by 8 percent.

Princeton will use New Jersey's Solar Renewable Energy Certificate (SREC) program, to help pay for the cost of the array. Under the program, the state will issue one SREC for every 1,000 kilowatt hours of energy produced by the solar array until 2020. The university will then sell the credits to a utility company.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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Suffolk University's Green Efforts Include Building Design

September 08, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Boston's Suffolk University has building projects that incorporate environmentally sound construction processes and sustainable principles in their design. New buildings use water conservation fixtures, energy-efficient lighting and HVAC equipment, and recycled materials. Suffolk’s 10 West Residence Hall, which opened in 2008, received LEED Gold certification.

Other Suffolk University environmental initiatives include composting, biking workshops, and programs that encourage the use of reusable bags and mugs, bottle-less water filtration system, a reuse/donation program and a green event checklist to facilitate more environmentally friendly catered events

Princeton Review has again acknowledges Suffolk University as one of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges citing coursework and sustainable practices. Suffolk University offers more than 50 courses in sustainability in areas of study ranging from business to law to science.

“Sustainability efforts have become a way of life at Suffolk University as we attend to environmental issues in the classroom, through outreach to faculty and staff, and by revamping our infrastructure,” said Marguerite Dennis, vice president for Enrollment and International Programs.

In 2010, the University’s employee education program on waste reduction and recycling earned a Gold Achievement Award from the Environmental Protection Agency’s WasteWise Program, and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection recognized Suffolk University as the 2009 WasteWise “Partner of the Year” for its comprehensive recycling and waste-prevention efforts.

To learn more click here.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved

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Organizations and Groups in the USGBC's Center for Green Schools

September 07, 2011 Add Comment Edit

The US Green Building Council's (USGBC) Center for Green Schools is dedicated to increasing the number of green schools. Here are some of their organizations, groups and initiatives.

The Coalition for Green Schools
An alliance of the nation's leading educational and environmental associations, including the American Architectural Foundation, American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association, National PTA, National School Boards Association and many others, the Coalition is in pursuit of a common mission: provide every child in America with a green school. For more information or to apply click here.

The 50 for 50 Green Schools Caucus Initiative
This initiative equips state legislators with the knowledge, tools and networks they need to advance effective state policies that promote the benefits of green schools. For more information click here.

Mayors' Alliance for Green Schools
The Alliance unites mayors from major cities and small towns across the country around a common goal: bringing the benefits of green schools to their local communities. For more information click here.

USGBC Chapter Green Schools Committees
Across USGBC's national chapter network, more than 1,000 Green Schools Committee volunteers are leading local and regional campaigns to promote healthy green school buildings. Committees raise community awareness, host green schools events, give presentations, support local schools, engage educators and work with local media to share their stories. For more information click here.

USGBC Students
Representing college and university-based groups of students from all disciplines who come together to green their campuses, communities and careers, USGBC Students has 60 active groups and expects to engage more than 250 student groups nationwide over the next five years. For more information or to get involved click here.

Center for Green Schools Fellows
The Fellows program connects carefully selected and extensively trained green schools experts to serve as full-time sustainability officers to local school districts for three-year terms. Fellows provide dedicated, hands-on project and organizational support for district-wide green schools initiatives. For more information click here.

Congressional Green Schools Caucus
Under bipartisan leadership on Capitol Hill, and with programmatic support from the Center for Green Schools, the Caucus brings together nearly 60 federal legislators to educate and inform Congress on the enormous impact of greening our nation's schools. For more information click here.

Take Action
You can promote green schools in your community or school district by supporting a green schools resolution. Policies endorsing green schools have been enacted in state legislatures, by school boards, and by city councils across the country. Good first steps towards passing a green schools resolution are identifying local partners, making the case, working from a sample resolution and learning best practices from other communities . For more information click here.

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Green School Buildings Offer Many Benefits

September 06, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Green school construction offers many benefits including thousands of new jobs. Green schools use an average of 33% less energy and 32% less water than conventional schools. A 2006 study sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, the American Institute of Architects, the American Lung Association, the Federation of American Scientists and USGBC found that building green would save an average school $100,000 each year in energy costs along – enough to hire two new additional full-time teachers, purchase 5,000 new textbooks, or buy 500 new computers.

Green schools have a superior indoor environment, with clean, fresh air, free of dangerous chemicals from everyday products like carpets, paints and cleaning materials.

Green school buildings make use of as much natural daylight as possible, maximizing students’ ability to concentrate and stay physically and emotionally healthy while at the same time dramatically reducing energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Green schools’ better lighting, temperature control, ventilation and indoor air quality contribute to reduced asthma, colds, flu and absenteeism, helping improve learning, test scores and lifetime student earnings. And green schools boost morale and improve teacher retention.

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USGBC's Center for Green Schools

September 06, 2011 Add Comment Edit

The the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Center for Green Schools envisions green schools for everyone within this generation. To help achieve this objective the USGBC provides resources for green builders, school administrators, elected officials and community members.

S. Richard Fedrizzi, the President, CEO and Founding Chair of USGBC believes "there is no other market that speaks more powerfully to the benefits and potential of green buildings than our schools."

According to Fedrizzi, "The Center for Green Schools at USGBC is helping to engage educators in creating sustainable learning environments for their students and apply solid research to inform leadership—from school boards to college presidents—about the benefits of healthy, high-performing schools. They are working with state and local governments to draft smart, practical policies, and they provide trainings and helpful resources to those who need it most—K-12 schools serving lower-income families, under-resourced institutions and community colleges. The Center serves to convene conversations with key decision makers, collaborate with leading education and environmental associations and create tools and resources that help make green schools possible."

Fedrizzi also states that, "Advocacy tools are also being created and disseminated to support USGBC Student Groups and our nationwide network of more than 1,000 Green School Committee volunteers. We want to inspire innovation that can be replicated and deployed at lightning speed to every school and every college and university campus in this country and beyond."

The Center for Green Schools web site is filled with 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 the world’s future leaders about sustainability to benefit communities for generations to come.

They provide profiles of green schools, 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 where visitors share their experiences, best practices, and creative ideas.

The USGBC’s LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Schools green rating system provides green-building guidelines and offers third-party verification to ensure schools’ stakeholders that their buildings incorporate the best in science, design and technology to make their schools truly green.

For more information on the Center for Green Schools, click here.

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Video: Sustainable Case Study: Mount Wachusett Community College

September 03, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, Massachusetts moved from being a sustainable laggard to being a sustainability leader. Using innovative financing and thinking, the college switched to renewable energy sources. The campus-wide initiative also transformed the curriculum.

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2010 Green Schools Summit Workshop & Conference

October 03, 2010 Add Comment Edit

On October 4 & 5, the Colorado chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council is holding an event known as the Green Schools Summit. The two day event will feature a workshop and conference.

Workshop

On October 4, between 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM, there will be a half-day preconference workshop titled Green Your District, Your Schools, and Your Teaching.

This workshop will capitalize on the experiences of three local experts. Interactive activities will keep participants engaged and provide opportunities for networking with other professionals. This workshop endeavors to help provide the resources needed to improve existing sustainability initiatives or to build a program from the ground up.

Brian Dunbar, Director, Institute for the Built Environment, Colorado State University will present the first segment about how to develop an SMS, SDG, and partner-enhanced integrated sustainable design.

Bill Franzen, SAGE 2 Associates, LLC is responsible for the second segment, he will focus on the process, importance, and benefits of green school design and operations.

Farah McDill, Green School Specialist will conduct the final segment. She will focus on the end-users, the teachers and students, and how they can best understand the built environment of educational facilities, through building-focused sustainability clubs and behavior change.

Reception

On October 4, between 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM there will be an evening networking reception that is open to the public (cash bar).

Conference

On October 5, between 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM there will be a full day educational conference providing professional development and continuing education credits. The conference is called the 2010 Green Schools Summit: Graduate to Green

The conference offers three tracks: Design (for architects, engineers, contractors and those involved in construction), Maintenance (for district personnel including facilities, administrators, energy managers) and Curriculum (for teachers, parents, students and eco-advocates). View Session Descriptions

There will also be updates from U.S. Green Building Council’s national green schools movement, Governor’s Energy Office, and the Colorado Department of Education.

Companies that work with schools are being asked to sponsor a school district to help them attend the Green Schools Summit.

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