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Energy Saving Strategies for Schools
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As winter approaches, leaders at K-12 schools can learn how to reduce their campus energy costs in a series of webinars devised by the U.S. Green Building Council in partnership with Senator Hillary Clinton and with sponsorship from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The series began this month and covers top 10 tips in three key categories: no-cost ways to slash utility bills at schools, low-cost techniques to do the same and investments, such as building and lighting systems upgrades, that supercharge cost saving and energy efficiency.
The series of 90-minute online sessions began this week and the next webinars are at 1 p.m. EST December 3 and January 21. Sessions are being archived for viewing after the initial presentation.
Registration is $10 per session for USGBC members and $15 for nonmembers.
"We are grateful to Senator Clinton for her leadership on this important and very real challenge," USGBC CEO, President and Founding Chair Rick Fedrizzi said in a statement announcing the program. "While we can't control the price of energy, we can take incremental, proactive steps to improve the energy efficiency of our school buildings, saving money on utility bills so we don't have to cut important educational programs and services just to keep the lights on."
The webinars are the latest offering from the USGBC, which has been steadily stepping up its campaign to Build Green Schools. Last month, the council and the U.S. Conference of Mayors announced their partnership in efforts to green America's schools within a generation.
At the start of the school year, the USGBC reported a surge in the number of eco-friendly schools. Almost 1,000 school buildings have met or are seeking certification under the USGBC's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards, the council said. More than 8 million square feet of campus space are certified and more than 90 million square feet are in the pipeline as registered projects.
For more information about the new webinars for schools, visit
http://www.usgbc.org/webinars.
Clinton's message to school districts is available at
http://www.buildgreenschools.org/resources/vid_senator_clinton.html.
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Green Schools in Bend, Oregon
Here in Oregon, some of the schools in the Bend-LaPine School district already have solar panels installed on them to reduce overall energy costs and to use as a teaching tool for the kids. Its great to hear more about these efforts nation-wide.
Stephanie
www.peachygreen.com/
Ray Of Light
How about the energy generating bicycles? We should have them in all schools and state prisons.
Great post!
http://renewable-energy-tv.blogspot.com
Greening of America
All public and government buildings must have Solar Hot Water heaters installed! the Savings in Tax Dollars alone is huge! A new light-bulb, SEE: “A £2 energy-saving lightbulb that lasts for 60 years has been developed by scientists at Cambridge University. The researchers have designed a bulb that is three times more energy efficient than today’s best offer and can cut lighting bills by 75 per cent.The bulbs are 12 times more efficient that conventional tungsten bulbs and three times more efficient than compact fluorescent “energy efficient” bulbs. They can burn for 100,000 hours and they illuminate instantly and can be dimmed, unlike energy efficient bulbs.”
http://theinfochief.com/
- Can make FREE indoor lighting possible when combined with the right storage batteries and connected by appropriate electronics for all commercial, public and government buildings! Just think of the tax reductions this could offer for a small, up front investment! Be careful though, the Shysters, Shylocks and Lawyer politicians just live to ripoff the American people every chance they can, and cut a % out for themselves - shoot them on sight if necessary, 12 gauge, buckshot is recommended!(China does!) and remember, even the far northern countries like Sweden have very good solutions to the waste found in the States SEE: Free, friendly and non-fossil – biomethane from human waste will soon power public transport in Oslo, the capital city of Norway. http://ecoworldly.com/2009/01/29/human-sewage-to-power-buses-in-norway/
Sweden takes waste heat from reactors and heats huge greenhouses with it,grows their own green with it! not like the wasteful Yankee Doodle - he shoots half his nuclear power up cooling towers, then invades other countries for more energy!
Jordan Tinnell/ AKA felica tinnells lil bro
I think energy saving is a reat way to keep re lanet safe and enviormental
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