Alliance To Save Energy
ASE Green Schools program is geared toward school districts looking to make their existing buildings more efficient. The website offers helpful guidelines for starting a program.
Onset's Data Loggers - White Papers For Green Building Projects
Battery-powered data loggers are powerful tools that monitor a wide range of indoor and outdoor parameters. White papers feature information on a variety of topics, from key considerations in choosing the right data logger to hands-on deployment techniques.
Building Green
Features articles, reviews, and news stories on energy-efficient, resource-efficient, and healthy building practices. Books, periodicals, and other resources on green building, building materials, the indoor environment, energy efficiency, site and landscape design, and other related topics.
"How to" Guides
The U.S. DOE web site to help schools with Planning, Financing, Designing & Building and Operations & Maintenance of EnergySmart schools.
NRDC Building Green - Building Your Business Case
Understand the business rewards of sustainable construction, and give you what you need to make the case for building green to CEOs, investors, and prospective tenants. Get an edge on the competition, boost your profits, cut operating and maintenance costs and enhance your public image -- all for little or no extra cost.
ENERGY STAR®’s Building Upgrade Manual
The ENERGY STAR® Upgrade Manual for Buildings is a guide to planning and implementing profitable upgrades that will improve the energy performance of your facilities. The Manual offers advice for developing a comprehensive energy management strategy and an integrated approach to upgrading existing buildings.
Energy-Smart Building Choices (pdf)
Information on how to "go green" in the school building and how the energy and financial savings made possible by implementing green buildings benefit the entire school community.
Greening America's Schools: Costs and Benefits
This report is intended to answer this fundamental question: how much more do green schools cost, and is greening schools cost effective?
Green Schools Action Checklist (pdf)
EPA’s Green Schools Checklist offers tips and resources ranging from the solid waste they generate, to the indoor environment they provide, to the energy and supplies they consume.
A Green School " How To" Guide
With the right planning, EnergySmart schools can be built for about the same initial cost as conventionally-built schools. Yet the ongoing savings are substantial. So are the benefits to health and comfort, the environment, and staff and student satisfaction.
Building Green Schools
Across the United States, school districts large and small are realizing the benefits of building with LEED for Schools. Students, parents, teachers and community members are making the difference, by letting elected officials know they want their schools built green.
