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America’s Top 10 Green Schools

These schools are leading the way from the toxic one-room schoolhouse of yore to holistic and healthy classrooms.

The early-American school kids swaddled with scarves to within a breath of suffocating as they hiked to the little red school house didn’t know that their classrooms suffered from faulty insulation and bad air. But that’s because no one thought much about the coal fire’s smoke, the oil lantern’s lung-clogging potential, the dank air’s capacity to promote mildew and molds, or the contaminated water from the well.

That was then: before "green" and "sustainable" were "invented." And now? Looking at such nods to urban ecology as Manhattan’s green-roofed Calhoun school, we see a sample of the neighborhood classrooms’ new sustainability and a sign that we know — and do better — now. Or at least some of us do, like the state of Washington, which last spring took the lead in insisting that all school and public buildings go green, i.e. adopt LEED standards as rated by the U.S. Green Building Council.

By Jane Holtz Kay, The Green Guide

Full Story: http://www.alternet.org/story/24530/

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