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by Chrysti Neuman - The array's nearly 25,000 individual solar panels will generate 90 percent of the private school's energy needs. Bees with hives arranged around the panels will also produce 400 pounds of honey annually.

VANCOUVER, April 30, 2012 /CNW/ - Kasian, a leading global architecture, design and planning firm, is pleased to announce that the Charles E. Fipke Centre for Innovative Research, (Fipke Centre), and the adjacent Arts & Sciences Building, located at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia (UBCO), have both been awarded five Green Globes™. These are the first campus buildings in the world to each receive five Green Globes and are also the first paired buildings to attain this distinction. Both buildings are designed by Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd, (Kasian), in collaboration with the UBC Properties Trust.

April 17, 2012 - The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) have teamed up yet again to release the third annual edition of the unique, free guidebook saluting the nation's most environmentally responsible green colleges.

Getting ready for your audit: The really big EcoSchools certification “look-fors” .... Click on the headline.

The province of Ontario boasts an important inventory of publically funded school buildings - 4,900 of them. Wood-frame construction is an important construction option for school buildings, as well as an important choice toward meeting a sustainable future. This 62 page guide was prepared by the Ontario WoodWORKS! program and the Canadian Wood Council.