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Green School Buildings are Financially Responsible

Posted on September 16, 2008

Every week day across the U.S. millions of children sit in school buildings. The majority of the buildings do not efficiently use energy or water, and many of the buildings are downright unhealthy. However, in the last few years there has been a push to build more energy efficient schools.In 2006 the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released a report titled, ???Greening America???s Schools.??? The report stated that not investing in ???green technologies is not financially responsible for school systems.??? The report looked at 30 ???green??? schools, and concluded that they cost two percen...

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