Dunbarton High School Named 2015 Greenest School by USGBC

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Dunbarton High School Named 2015 Greenest School by USGBC

Washington, DC, April 15, 2015—The Global Coalition for Green Schools, an initiative of the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council, has announced the 2015 Greenest School on Earth: Dunbarton High School of Pickering, Ontario, Canada. 

The Greenest School on Earth is an annual competition, highlighting a K-12 school that exemplifies how sustainability can be integrally woven into the infrastructure, culture and curriculum of a school. The Center defines a green school as one that achieves zero environmental impact (including energy, water, waste and carbon), a positive impact on occupant health and performance and 100% environmentally literate graduates. These traits are encompassed in three pillars: environmental impact, human health and ecoliteracy. The Greenest School on Earth designation includes a $1,000 award to be used by the selected school for a sustainability initiative.

Dunbarton High School, built in the 1960s, has undergone a significant retrofit over the past five years, installing new energy-efficient windows, insulation and lower wattage lighting. The school offers a Specialist High Skills Major in Environment and engages students through coursework and extracurricular activities related to the school’s natural surroundings.  

Dunbarton features an outdoor classroom for 40, a 500 square meter pollinator garden and a rooftop solar water heater. Students at the school are provided with stainless steel water bottles upon matriculation and are involved in projects such as organic waste removal and the Atlantic Salmon Restoration Program. The school plans to utilize the $1,000 award to develop a school garden and construct ten additional bee condominiums, to be shared with the local community.

The panel of judges for this year’s Greenest School on Earth included: Princess Noor bint Asem of Jordan; John Mandyck, chief sustainability officer, UTC Climate, Controls & Security and co-chair of the Center for Green Schools Advisory Board; Jane Henley, former CEO, World Green Building Council; Peter Templeton, senior vice president of Global Market Development, U.S. Green Building Council and Wanda Dunaway, director of education and government markets, Shaw Contract Group.

 


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