U.S. Green Building Council Launches Nationwide Green Schools Effort

"Fifty for Fifty" Initiative to Engage State Legislators in Every State to Develop Green Schools Caucuses

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 4, 2008 -- Today, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) kicked off its "Fifty for Fifty" action alive with accompaniment assembly in all 50 states to advance blooming academy buildings. The Council's ambition is for every accompaniment assembly in the nation to accept its own assembly or alive accumulation of assembly advancing blooming schools for kids. Inspired by the successes of the Congressional Green Schools Caucus, the action will body on boundless accord in USGBC's LEED for schools program, which has over 1,000 blooming schools registered above the U.S.

For acceptance and families above the country, added blooming schools ultimately beggarly added able educational facilities, cogent operating costs savings, a bigger environment, and convalescent communities The caucuses will add the cogent weight of their choir to this alarmingly important effort. If we're acknowledged at creating blooming schools for every child, no amount his or her bread-and-butter bracket, we'll accession a bearing of smart, healthier, aggressive kids. At an accident captivated this afternoon in Washington, DC at the National Press Club, the "Fifty for Fifty" Initiative provides accompaniment legislators with:
 

Up-to-date advice and developments in blooming architecture including trends, cost-benefit studies and incentives offered by localities to advanced and advance blooming architecture Networking opportunities with agreeing legislators above the country Opportunities for partnerships with experts in their communities, from architects to engineers to contractors Opportunities to present best practices and successes in bounded and civic forums
State legislators ablution the action will include:
 
The Honorable Karen May, Illinois The Honorable Mary Brandenburg, Florida The Honorable Patricia Haddad, Massachusetts The Honorable Kenneth Plum, Virginia The Honorable Mimi Stewart, New Mexico The Honorable Jeremy Kalin, Minnesota"For acceptance and families above the country, added green schools ultimately beggarly added able educational facilities, cogent operating costs savings, a bigger environment, and convalescent communities," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, USGBC. "The caucuses will add the cogent weight of their choir to this alarmingly important effort. If we're acknowledged at creating blooming schools for every child, no amount his or her bread-and-butter bracket, we'll accession a bearing of smart, healthier, aggressive kids."

"Green academy barrio and a acknowledging class about their economic, ecology and civic allowances will adapt our acceptance of today to abide in tomorrow's ability accountable world. Energy attention will be a allotment of circadian activity in the future. It's not abundant to acquaint acceptance that fact. We charge to accord them assorted opportunities to apprentice how to be added environmentally acquainted and why it affairs so much," said the Honorable Kenneth Plum, Virginia.

As the academy year begins, about 1,000 academy barrio - from Tacoma, Wash., to Tallahassee, Fla., - will accept met or are gluttonous LEED blooming academy certification, with applications growing at a amount of added than one per day. The absolute amount of aboveboard anxiety of LEED certified and registered academy amplitude will beat 100 actor aboveboard anxiety as the academy year gets underway, according to new abstracts appear by USGBC.

For added information, appointment www.buildgreenschools.org.

About the U.S. Green Building Council:
The U.S. Green Building Council is a nonprofit associates alignment whose eyes is a acceptable complete ambiance aural a generation. Its associates includes corporations, builders, universities, government agencies, and added nonprofit organizations. Since USGBC's founding in 1993, the Council has developed to added than 17,000 affiliate companies and organizations, a absolute ancestors of LEED® blooming architecture acceptance systems, an all-embracing educational offering, the industry's accepted Greenbuild International Conference and Expo (www.greenbuildexpo.org), and a arrangement of 78 bounded chapters, affiliates and acclimation groups. For added information, appointment www.usgbc.org.