USGBC NFC Green Schools Committee featured in National year end summary report

The following paragraph was included in a mailing to all Green Schools Committees around the country. Way to go!

The Colorado and Nebraska Flatwater Chapters teamed up in 2009 for the second annual Colorado Green Schools Summit: Graduate to Green, in order to educate school leaders in Nebraska about the benefits of building green. Brad Carne, USGBC Nebraska Flatwater
Chapter’s Green Schools Committee Chair, invited 15 school districts from across Nebraska to head west to Colorado, to experience firsthand the impact of green schools. Superintendents, directors of maintenance, principals, and board members travelled to learn about green schools and attend the Colorado Chapter’s second annual Green Schools Summit. One visitor, Dan Hoesing of the Alliance School District (NE) said he “came away with a much expanded view of the need to connect education and building design to create educational environments that promote responsibility and awareness.” This is just one example of how Green Schools Committees are working to introduce their local decision makers to the benefits of green schools and collaborating together as leaders in the national green schools movement.