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Thirty years ago in the U.S., Earth Day 1970 and the subsequent Clean Air Act of 1970 helped spur worldwide changes that started to have a positive effect on the environment. Some governments began to eliminate lead in gasoline and to clean up power plants. Now it's time to...
His most far-reaching initiative, though, is radical in the best sense of the word. It's Destination Conservation, a project that has directed environmental retrofits at some 2,700 schools across Canada and is branching out this fall to the U.S. A school board's dream, these retrofits dramatically...
Each retrofit starts with an audit. Teachers and pupils are taught to measure how much energy and water are consumed at their school and how much solid waste is produced. Through classroom guides and training sessions, Destination Conservation staff members then identify behavioral changes that kids and teachers can make...
The big savings come in year two, when an energy-services company, partnering with Destination Conservation, implements a technical retrofit: installing superefficient light bulbs, low-flow showerheads and the like. The retrofitter guarantees that the school will enjoy substantially lower--usually between 20% and 30%--utility bills. If not, the...
If homes, businesses and public buildings around the world all achieved the 30% cuts that a Destination Conservation retrofit gives schools, society would be halfway to the 50% to 70% reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions needed to avoid severe global warming. Thus the retrofits send a message to adults, says...