Green Schools Summit
Friday, April 25, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (lunch provided
by Epicurean Catering)
Denver Art Museum
Ponti Hall
Designing and building
schools that are healthy, energy and water efficient
and comfortable improves the learning environment
and can be accomplished in a fiscally responsible
manner.
In conjunction with the U.S. Green Building Council
and UBS, Donnell-Kay Foundation will host a free,
one-day seminar that highlights the economics and
principles of building high-performance school buildings,
state policy and programs for designing such schools
and a series of case studies from school districts
across Colorado.
REGISTRATION - To
register for the Green Schools
Summit, click
here.
AGENDA
Opening
Speaker (Tom Plant,
Director of Governor’s
Energy Office)
Introduction
to Green Schools and the
potential for Colorado
schools to implement green
principles in their design
and construction. (Brian
Dunbar, Colorado
State University Institute
for the Built Environment)
Case Study presentation.
(CSU graduate student)
Schools as Learning
Laboratories. (Victor
Olgyay. Rocky
Mountain Institute)
Economics of Designing
and Building Green.
(Josh Radoff, YRG
Sustainability Consultants)
Lunch
Case Studies
1. Poudre
School District –
(Stu Reeves) New
high school and elementary
school. Introduced by
State Representative Randy
Fischer.
2. South
Routt School District
(Kelly Reed)
– Geothermal designs.
Introduced by State Representative
Al White.
3. Wray
School District
(Ron Howard) – Wind
turbine project. Introduced
by State Representative
Cory Gardner.
Overview of BEST
legislation (HB-1335)
(Speaker of the House
Andrew Romanoff)
New State Policies / Implementation.
(Jeff Lyng, Governor’s
Energy Office)
More details to follow. Please continue
to visit the site for updated information.
Hosted by the U.S.
Green Building Council Colorado Chapter and the
Donnell-Kay Foundation.
For more information about the summit,
contact Deb Kleinman at 303.454.3391 or deb@usgbccolorado.org
or Matt Samelson at 720.932.1544 or msamelson@dkfoundation.org
For more information about High Performance
School Buildings, please see:
• U.S.
Green Building Council – Green Schools
• Collaborative
for High Performing Schools
• Greening
America’s Schools: Costs and Benefits (2.2
MB PDF file)
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