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Triple Bottom Line
How Green Schools Save Money, Promote Health, and Improve Achievement
CAIS Trustee Heads Conference
January 25, 2014 Paul Chapman, Inverness Associates
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Spaceship Earth
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The Challenges We Face
• Stabilize Population • Eradicate Poverty • Restore the
Environment • Climate Action Plan • The Great Mobilization
• There is No PLANet B!
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A Green Journey • Discovering Nature • Go West Young Man • UHS and HRS • Encore Career
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The Triple Bottom Line
Green Schools… • Save Money • Boost Achievement • Improve Health
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How to Make Your School Sustainable:
It’s Easy Being Green
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What Is a Green School?
Environmental Mission and Strategic Plan
The Five Foundations
1. Efficient Resources 2. Healthy Environment 3. Nutritious Food 4. Ecological Curriculum 5. Community Practice
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Green Ribbon Schools
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“Green schools and environmental literacy in fact complement the goals of providing a well-‐rounded educa8on for the 21st century, of modernizing schools at reduced costs, and of accelera8ng learning.” Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Educa4on
• U.S. Department of Education launches a “comprehensive approach to greening schools” (2011)
• Three Pillars – Environmental Impact and Energy Efficiency – Healthy School Environments – Environmental and Sustainability Education
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How to Green Your School • Clear Vision, Mission,
Goals, and Action Plan
• Strong Leadership: Top Down, Bottom Up
• Teamwork: Green Council & Green Teams
• Five Foundations
• Measure & Report Progress
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Alejo’s Story
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Team Green for Results • Love of Nature in Mission • Green Council for Action
• Recycling & Trash Audit • LEED Gold High School • Certified Green Business • Ecological Curriculum
• School Garden and Café • Environmental Stewards
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Renewable Energy Plan
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Environmental Stewards
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Mapping the Nation’s Green School
Movement
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California Leading the Green Way
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National Green Schools Survey and Methodology
• What is the state of environmental education (EE) in independent schools?
• Why do schools adopt EE programs and what challenges do they face in that process?
• How do schools reduce their footprint, promote healthy operations, incorporate EE in the curriculum, offer healthy food, empower students?
• What do schools need in order to strengthen their EE and sustainability programs?
• Background: 678 schools, 35% response rate nationally, CAIS (93/211) = 44% response rate!
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Executive Summary
• Interest in EES very high • Environmental concern top motivator • Organization around mission, policy, strategic
plan and green team • Engaged faculty and students in the lead • Some sustainability coordinators • Many motivated volunteers • Financial support modest • Waste reduction, recycling, composting, energy
efficiency widely embraced • School gardens and nutritious food very present • Green building practices taking hold
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Interest in Green Very High
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Environmental Concern Motivates
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Green Initiatives Underway
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Green Resources and Operations Major Focus for EES in Schools
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Food and Gardens Growing
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EES Success Varies
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Curriculum Starts to Integrate EES
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Informal EES Vital
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Challenges Facing Schools
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CAIS and National Trends Green Element CAIS National
School garden integrated in program 79% 57% (22%)
Green purchasing policy 39% 22% (17%)
Financial Support > $25,000 33% 17% (15%)
Required organic and local food 57% 44% (13%)
Sustainable landscaping 59% 46% (13%)
Green Team 66% 54% (12%)
Board and Head Support 65% 55% (10%)
Parent Green Committee 20% 10% (10%)
Sustainability in mission 51% 42% (9%)
Green policies 57% 48% (9%)
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Meeting EES Needs • More time, resources, commitment, leadership • Coordination of efforts into an integrated whole • Greater commitment to green initiatives at the
Board level • More integration of environmental education
into the curriculum • A concise curriculum that can be used in all
grade levels • Improved faculty professional development • Better use of outside resources • Help from outside to put program in place
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Schools Going Green
Stories from the National Field
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Putney’s ZNE Field House
• LEED Platinum field house • Saving $, ROI, life cycle cost analysis key • First zero net energy high school in US
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Lawrenceville: Stewardship Ethic
• Liz Duffy’s Charrette • Grid Neutral Goal • 30 acre, 6.1 megawatt
solar array
• Savings estimated @ $400,000/year for 20 years, 95% of need
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Sidwell Friends’ Green Journey
• Systemic change: Board, Head & CFO • The Journey to David Orr at Oberlin • 1st LEED Platinum Middle School in US • A Green Ribbon School, 2012
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St. Mark’s School Green Vision
“Respecting the needs of future generations, the St. Mark’s School of Texas will provide leadership in environmental sustainability and responsibility. The School assigns significant priority to integrating environmental awareness, understanding and stewardship into its academic mission, campus improvements, and operations.” Board of Trustees, 1/2010
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Athenian School Saves
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Prospect Sierra: Team Leadership • From Pizza Day to the
Green Schools Initiative
• Director of Innovation, Partnership and Service
• Facilities Manager Steve Harrington’s Solar Plan and Campus Renovation
• Student Carrot Mob for Environmental Change
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MCDS Strategic Sustainbility Change Leaders:
Adam Willner & Lucinda Lee Katz
A Food Revolution: Jason Hull
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Marlborough Leadership Lessons
“Marlborough School strives to become a community where environmental stewardship will be achieved through awareness and action.”
Marlborough School Board of Trustees, 2006
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Midland School Shines
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Thacher School: Sustainability In the Air We Breath
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Punahou’s Sustainability Plan • Sustainability Summit and
Challenge (2005) • Physical Plant Director
Randy Overton: “The Right Thing to Do”
• LEED: Case MS, Omidyar K-1 Neighborhood
• Energy Star Portfolio Manager, 42% more efficient MS building
• Life-Cycle Cost Analysis: Recoup $56M in 50 yrs. in operating efficiency
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Steps Your School Can Take to Be Green
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The Board, Head & CFO: The School’s Green Leaders
• Resources – Energy Audit: Energy Star Portfolio Manager – Building/Remodeling Green: LEED, CHPS – Water Conservation: Artificial Turf & Heat
Islands
• Operations – The 4 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot – The School’s Carbon Footprint and CO2 Plan – Green Business Certification – Green Purchasing Plans
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Green Leaders II • Food
– The Cafeteria: Local, Seasonal & Sustainable – A School Garden Plan – Farm to School Program and CSA Partnership
• The Curriculum – Sustainability Director & Program Consulting – 21st C. Skills: Thinking, Communication, Character – Professional Development
• Student Leaders
– A Business Office Labor Force for Energy Audits – Project-Based Learning – Inspiring Environmental Stewards
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Why Go Green?
Triple Bottom Line • Saves $ • Boosts Achievement • Improves Health
And Helps the
Environment Too!