Sustainable School

In my research on sustainable schools, I came across the Sidwell Friends School, which has a sustainable designed Middle School Green Building. The building includes ‘recycled, rapidly renewable, and locally produced materials, as well as paints, carpets and adhesives with low emission of volatile organic compounds, and even the most of the wood comes from environmentally certified sources.’ Furthermore, it has a constructed wetland for treating waste, solar panels for electricity generation, and uses passive solar design such as ventilation and shading systems.

http://www.sidwell.edu/about_sfs/greenbuilding_ms.asp

Visit the web site to take a tour of the school and see all its environmental features:
http://www.sidwell.edu/green_tour/