Posts Tagged ‘eco-friendly classrooms’

Treehouse School Takes Learning to a New Level

I thought we had green schools here in Bend, Oregon.  Then I read about the Elleray Preparatory School in the United Kingdom.  The school hired a Windermere-based architect, Rob Gaukroger, to create eco-friendly classrooms using up-cycled and recycled materials.
The resulting new classrooms are nothing short of amazing!  What kid wouldn’t want to go to a [...]

November 17, 2009 Green kids 4 Comments

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• Improve Your Garden with Solar Lights
  Last weekend, we replaced our old grill on the patio.  That led to planting some containers of flowers, which made me want to string lights along the back deck for extra ambiance.  Its so easy to improve your garden with solar lights! Whether you want to light up your patio (like we did), illuminate a [...] […]
• Solar Power Generation in Tenerife
  No matter where you are in the world, solar power can be harnessed for clean, fossil-fuel free energy. On the island of Tenerife (the largest of the Canary Islands), a utility scale solar facility draws on the sunshine from this area known as “Eternal Spring,” off the western coast of Africa.  Even though its a [...] […]