Pine Jog Elementary- The First Green School is in Greenacres Florida. In fact, Pine Jog Elementary is the only school in the whole country that shares a campus with an environmental center and a public university, Florida Atlantic University.
There are a lot of firsts for this school. It is the first school in Florida to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system. There are ONLY 32 K-12 school buildings that are certified in all of the United States and Canada. Points gathered for different construction building and design components make up a score. You need to earn a certain amount of points in order to earn the certification. I went by to take photos of the school and it is not quite finished. But here are some photos anyways.
The Palm Beach County school district is using about 36 different 'green' elements. Some of the things they are incorporating are:
- Rainwater harvesting
- Low- maintenance polished concrete floors
- "Light shelves" : these are installed outside of the windows and bounces sunlight into the rooms so you don't have to use the lights all the time.
- There is preferred parking for teachers with hybrids right in front of the school
- Classrooms are all made of recycled materials
- Paint is all non toxic and hypoallergenic, so are the sealants and adhesives
- The cleaning products are all natural and non toxic
- A storm water retention pond on the environmental trails
- Nature trails
- Building materials were bought from regional suppliers to reduce energy in transportation
- They preserved many of the trees during construction
- Motion sensor controls to reduce lighting waste
- Outdoor teaching areas
- Waterless urinals
FAU will be using this campus for their environmental graduate programs and the Pine Jog Environmental Education Center is a great place to take your kids to do eco friendly classes and trail walks and much more. The district will be turning the elementary school part into a magnet program because it is so unique.
This August will be the grand opening of Pine Jog Elementary school in Greenacres Florida. The school is located at 6325 Summit Blvd in Greenacres Florida 33415 and their phone number 561-656-5400 and the website address is http://www.edline.net/pages/pinejogelementaryschool. The hours will be 8:15 a.m. o 2:20 p.m.
For some great eco tips for back to school read my post here.
One last note: This school was built out of free choice to build it. No one said we had to build it. No one mandated to the school board what school to build. No laws were enacted to make sure this school was built. No one dictated this to us. It is an example of when allowing people to make their own decisions, they will inevitably make good choices.
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