How can your school really become a green school?
- Install high efficiency thermal windows.
- Install a wind generator system or solar system to provide a renewable source as a portion of or all power used in daily operations.
- Solar Skylights for Athletic Complexes to reduce lighting requirements.
- Inner city schools can purchase green electricity or partner with a green producer and buy renewable energy.
- Install solar swimming pool heaters.
- Use high efficiency solar LED lighting or combination wind/solar for athletic and parking areas.
- Change school days to more energy efficient months of the year.
- Use recycled building materials for new construction or remodeling projects.
- Use more cotton or paper products in place of plastics or glass.
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Practical Green Schools
Schools Wanna-be Green
Let's "go green" is the buzz of thousands of schools across the USA. Many school officials and teachers view green as something that can be done on a limited basis possibly in the class room or teachers lounge. The issues of green are bazaar since by tossing a can or bottle in the right colored bag we feel our part is over for "being green". The reality is that just about everything, regardless if it has been recycled or not, ends up in the land fill and is a potential hazard to the environment at some point.
Why not start green rather than end green? Paper is better than plastic and plastic is better than glass in terms of biodegradable mass. Unfortunately many of the so called renewable or green items are very hazardous to dispose of such as high efficiency fluorescent lights and cleaning solutions. Everything biodegrade's over time it depends if you have one month or one million years to allow the process to occur.
The real battle is not green, it is pollution and the handling and proper disposal of hazardous materials. Earth is amazing, land fills are actually large compost bins that eventually turn everyday waste items back into the planet.
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Commercial Grade Solar Pool Heating
For commercial uses, the Ecosun Solar Pool Heating System distributed by Toboa Energy Resources is available with a heavy-duty 2" manifold system, designed to be compatible with commercial-grade high flow, high-efficiency pool filtration systems. The durability built into the design of our efficient solar pool heaters makes them ideally suited to commercial applications.
Hundreds of Aquatherm solar swimming pool heaters are currently heating pools efficiently, economically, and with minimal environment impact at apartment complexes, condominiums, retirement communities, hotels, schools, public pools and other commercial settings all over the world.
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Natural Light Tubular Skylights
Solar tubular skylights can substantially reduce the daily usage of conventional lighting systems. Install solar tubular skylights in gymnasiums, swimming complexes, field houses, locker rooms, class rooms, break areas, offices, or anywhere lighting is required on a continuous basis. Tubular skylights are modern commercial quality lighting systems that use the sun to light the way and save on electric. By using less electricity schools can help our environment as well by reducing the amount of coal or nuclear energy that is required.
WIND POWER
Many schools have purchased wind generators to help cover the rising cost of power. Wind power is great since it allows the long-term price to be fixed. Wind generator systems can last up to twenty years without total overhaul so the price you pay now for the wind generator can amount to the cost of you electric power over the next twenty years. The best part is that power companies will pay you for excess electric energy produced. Want to learn more? Click the link below and a Toboa Energy specialist will contact you.
