A Client's Guide to Sustainable Schools: A Draft for Development (pdf)
benefits of sustainable design, working with design professionals, sustainable design principles

Energy Supplement to School Planning and Management. (2001)
Presents the following articles on energy efficiency and American public schools: "High Performance Schools Reduce Costs and Improve Student and Staff Environment" (Larry Schoff); "ASHRAE_s Standard 90.1: Educating the Engineer" (Mack and Melanie Wallace;" and "Performance Contracting: Meeting the Challenge of Deferred Maintenance in America_s K-12 Schools."

Green Building and School Construction (2002)
Discusses the benefits of green, or high-performance, buildings, such as health and comfort, cost effectiveness, and sustainability. Explores the barriers to their use by schools--most notably cost. Offers suggestions on overcoming these barriers.

Head of the Class for No GHG-School
Profiles the building and HVAC design of Quebec's Ecole du Tournant, which emits no greenhouse gasses and uses 80% less energy than a typical school built according to the standard energy code. The composition of the roof, exterior walls, and windows, as well as the efficient lighting system are briefly described. The geothermal heat pump and makeup air unit using solar walls are covered in detail.

Building a Better Learning Environment
Explains how an environmentally friendly educational facilities can be cost effective and enhance student performance. The concepts behind a Green Building, the areas where cost savings are possible, and some examples of realized cost savings are highlighted. Green Building funding issues are also discussed.

High Performance School Characteristics
Details the properties of high performance school buildings under the categories of building envelope, lighting, and HVAC and dehumidification. Initial verses operating costs are addressed, as are the benefits to health, comfort, efficiency, maintenance, commissioning, environmental responsibility, security, and good architecture.

Building Ecology and Partition Design. Technical Bulletin
Focusing on the design of interior partition systems, ways in which decision makers can incorporate environmental concerns in the design of school buildings are detailed in this bulletin. It and is intended as a resource for school system facility planners and architects who design schools

Building Green
Features articles, reviews, and news stories on energy-efficient, resource-efficient, and healthy building practices. Building Green is an extensive resource with over 200 books, periodicals, and other resources on green building, building materials, the indoor environment, energy efficiency, site and landscape design, and other related topics. Includes a calendar of events and an extensive section of links to related sites.

Sustainable Schools: Are We Building Schools for the Future?
Reviews the record of Great Britain's Building Schools for the Future program, with regard to the creation of positive, sustainable learning environments.

Sustainable Schools: Are We Building Schools for the Future? Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2006-07 (pdf)
Presents the British government's response to a July, 2007 select committee report reviewing the record of Great Britain's Building Schools for the Future program. The government’s response to 47 recommendations from the original committee report are presented.

Sustainable Learning
Demonstrates how architectural design can merge ecological living and learning as illustrated by the Wolf Ridge's new Environmental Learning Center in Finland, Minnesota.

Green Buildings Research White Paper (pdf)
Covers "green" building awareness and practice across a variety of building types with two chapters designated for higher education and K-12 education. These chapters interpret survey data reflecting awareness, implementation, willingness to pay for, and benefits of environmentally conscious buildings.

Better Learning in Better Buildings: Sustainable Design of School Facilities Helps Educational Mission
Bill Dierdorff, business manager for Oregon's North Clackamas School District, believes schools can better fulfill their educational mission if they design and construct buildings on sustainability principals.

Impact of Sustainable Buildings on Educational Achievements in K-12 Schools (pdf)
Seeks to define what constitutes sustainable schools by discussing site planning, lighting, indoor air quality, healthy building materials, acoustics, and use of renewable energy with information about the connection between day-lighting, air quality and student achievement.

High Performance Students Need High Performance Schools
Hunt believes a high performance building is critical to the education debate, as he sees a direct correlation between learning space and learning achievement.

Empowering Learning Through Natural, Human, and Building Ecologies
This article by Robert Kobet, stresses the importance of understanding the connections between human ecology and building ecology and seeks ways to demonstrate how buildings function and how they are connected the greater community.

Buildings that Teach
Article discusses how merging environment with school design can enhance the learning process.

Great Schools By Design
Great Schools by Design is a national initiative of the American Architectural Foundation that seeks to improve the quality of America’s schools and the communities they serve by promoting collaboration, excellence and innovation in school design.