Topic: 'Energy Efficiency'
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- Program encourages teachers to create healthy, sustainable classrooms.
- "Research demonstrates that the quality of the physical environment affects student performance...An environment that includes appropriate lighting, sound, temperature, humidity, cleanliness, color and air quality can help students learn better. In many cases, improving these attributes can also reduce energy use."
- As schools and universities continue on the green cleaning journey, one of the greatest opportunities for improvement that is still underutilized when it comes to reducing the impacts associated with cleaning is the cleaning personnel themselves.
- First-of-its-kind green healthcare rating system distinguishes construction of high-performance healthcare facilities.
- Data from many facilities show that a properly commissioned building with controls and equipment functioning properly can save 5%-15% in total building energy cost. With a little knowledge this can be done without compromising IAQ.
- A green school is not necessarily a healthy school unless it takes into consideration the health of its occupants and is operated accordingly.
- Five positive sustainable trends in the U.S. you may not have noticed.
- A healthy school needs to engage in a scientific and professional cleaning process to realize its health objectives.
- Green the plant logically: Not every initiative will have a positive, sustainable return.