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Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

kylecherrick — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:20:46 -0000

Green Schools are sweet! This book looks great.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

Preston — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:23:40 -0000

Davidclaflin, congrats you're one of the winners in this giveaway. I'll email you separately to get your address for shipping the book.

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Preston — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:22:21 -0000

Happywren, congrats you're one of the winners in this giveaway. I'll email you separately to get your address for shipping the book.

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Preston — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:20:56 -0000

Rhurley, congrats you're one of the winners in this giveaway. I'll email you separately to get your address for shipping the book.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

marissarousso — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:47:52 -0000

PS-
Educational Institutions and all schools should be green from pole to pole - what do you think?

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

marissarousso — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:42:01 -0000

Thanks to the laws of nature, it's never too late to go green. I want to make my school green, thus I would be honored to trade one of my green books in exchange for your green school primer book. Today, media green-washers burden consumers with all the doom and gloom cash-crisis banter, why? (-attention=$) . On the the sunnier side of the subject, I plan to help everyone meet basic human needs, starting with clean water & education, with an emphasis on GREEN ROOFS! My school will be uber green and i'll invite you and all the other commentators to join me for a lovely picnic on the roof when it's ready. 2010 will mark the beginning of an environmental justice movement, and the changes in lifestyles will refresh the history books - our grandchildren will be reading about us in classrooms situated on glittering rooftops. They will be accustomed to green roofs, where flowers, plants, and trees, meet the sun and glitter - they will wonder why anyone would kill a horse to make glue when glue is an unnecessary resource. Starting with enough water to saturate the first seeds and letting rain take the reins from there, nature will meet us halfway to meet consistent global sustainability. Soon enough, our generation's green roofs, glittering worldwide, will symbolize the most important time in the history of planet earth. Green roofs combined with education will define the environmental justice movement leading to worldwide sustainability. By seizing the opportunity to adopt sustainable green-roof lifestyles, poverty & war will evaporate and abolish themselves in time. In effect, humanity will be happy & satisfied because collectively we will make our global interdependent economy actually work. People will be essentially happy. After all, the best things in life are green.

peace, love, go naked, & stay green.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

bente — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:33:13 -0000

@ michael p-z: perhaps this wasn't my school, since there were many in minneapolis with a significant building boom in the early '60s, but it could have been since in my four years of high school i only got the chance to have class in a windowed classroom once. made me love biology more than i might have. the idea was that it would help kids concentrate to have them in a bare, windowless prison/room. luckily they did some major renovations, after i graduated of course.

after moving on to a college with a beautiful campus and exceptional facilties, i've realized how terrible it all really was. currently i'm completing a joint major in architecture and environmental studies and am ever interested in the infinite interpretations of 'environmental architecture'. love the blog btw

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

davidclaflin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:11:14 -0000

I went to a one-story brick, cir 1950, H-shaped school on a hill in Kansas. Actually it was two buildings, down the hill was a second building that housed K-1. About the only thing green about the building was that there was lots of daylight and view (although nothing much to look at). You couldn't have pondered the woodwork , if there was an, because of all the papers fastened to the walls.

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andrewvinisky — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:44:29 -0000

Grew up learning in Fairfax County, Virginia's oldest school building Woodlawn Elementary in the early 70's. Classic brick and block design with great big windows. My wife recently taught there but had to leave due to the known mold problem. The County, and more importantly the school kids today, could most benefit from a more modern building incorporating design elements found with the Green School Primer text.

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Mark Lambert — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:37:44 -0000

We're designing an eco-home to construct on-site at our Tech school (90+ years old) and are attempting to involve all the departments - it's amazing how pervasive green thinking is, or at least, can be!

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

brunofr — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:22:53 -0000

will i be able to wait until friday. This book sounds interesting.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

aeronlk — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:57:45 -0000

LOL! That's wonderful, please mail to 475 Ramblewood Drive #200, Coral Springs, FL 33071. The book will be recycled throughout my office, once I'm done reading it.
Thanks,
Aeron Knutson

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

almiteja — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:43:25 -0000

"Live within your means"; this applies to energy as well as money. With Green Schools appearing across the US, we may raise a new generation of Conservatives...:)

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daleparkinson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:10:43 -0000

My High School was built in the 1910s. Two stories, golden brown brick and expansive glass all in a classic style. Of course for the last 90 some years it has been the most beautiful building in town.

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happywren — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:23:16 -0000

I would love to see this kind of green thinking get a real foothold in global human consciousness.

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ggorby — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:55:48 -0000

I serve on the board of directors of a community school in Tucson, Arizona that has a rich history of parent involvement and searching for new approaches to sustainability. The School began in the 40's, with the major building being constructed in the 60's. The campus was retrofitted with rain collection cisterns and has several gardens, one for each class year. We are in the process of discussing how the school should move forward and yet preserve its character and identity. This book sounds like the very thing we need to move forward in our planning.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

Andrew_F — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:20:42 -0000

Looks like a great book!

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Krista — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:23:04 -0000

This looks like it would be a good book.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

David Williams — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:09:20 -0000

We've also had success with "green schools," our Two Harbors HS was an ASHRAE Technology Award Honorable mention, built for 20% less than average cost, operating at an Energy Star rating of 81, with displacement ventilation and radient floors (all in a 10,000 HDD climate)

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No Debt Plan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:46:32 -0000

Would be glad to have a read of this book... definitely interested in learning more.

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RJTAG — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:56:53 -0000

My elementary school and high school in NJ contained asbestos behind most of the students' lockers. If you want to talk about energy waste, the stairwells were heated to 85 deg, while the classrooms were set to 75 deg. It was often so warm inside that most classrooms had to open the windows.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

JustGreenHomes — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:23:33 -0000

Looks like a great book, will probably get a copy one way or another.

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danweldon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:42:45 -0000

I learned in the typical brick box ... a little hot in the summer, cool in the winter ... with realtively current books and movies that inspired the awe for the natural world around us. My kids attended a very recently built "mega-school." What was gained in architectural design, was lost in scale.
I would argue that the appropriateness of any learning environment is comprised in equal measure of scale, form, and function. We should be inspired by our surroundings, by our teachers, and by the applicability of subject matter.
While sustainable form may be an integral part of the equation, it cannot compensate for lack of any one of the remaining parts. We make progress where we can.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

louisboisnier — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:53:10 -0000

I'm working on designing a green school that you can actually see the workings of what makes it sustainable, and therefore exposing the science behind what makes it green.

Re: Green School Primer [Giveaway]

jademelody — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:56:21 -0000

Yee!!!