The curricula and programs below reflect high quality green building education, serving as models and resources for other educators.
2009 Recipients
Incentive Grants
Incentive grants support the development of new curricula that demonstrate significant creativity and outstanding educational experiences.
K-12 Incentive Grant Winner
Teaching Tools for Our Future: Green Building Design/Environmental
Innovation at the Ford Rouge! Ford Rouge Factory Tour, Detroit, MI
Ford Rouge Factory Tour
Community & Technical College Incentive Grant Winner
Sustainable Design and Construction Certificate
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati State Technical & Community College
Higher Education Incentive Grant Winner
HighPerPod: Zero Energy Classroom
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
HighPerPod at Univ. of Washington
Recognition Awards
Recognition awards honor existing educational programs and curricula for their innovative efforts to bring green building education to a broad spectrum of educational levels and content areas.
K-12 Recognition Awards
4 Habitat: Building a Better Future
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
4 Habitat
Awareness Appreciation and Advocacy
Learning Gate Community School, Lutz, FL
Learning Gate Community School
Green Dream House Design Contest
Castro Valley High School, Castro Valley, CA
Green Dream House Design
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University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI & the School of Art Institute of Chicago
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“We Share the World” Preschool-Kindergarten Environmental Curriculum
Londonderry School, Harrisburg, PA
Londonderry School
Community College Recognition Awards
The Building Energy Technologies Occupational Certificate Program
Wilbur Wright College, Chicago, IL
Wilbur Wright College
Energy Efficient Residential Construction Education
Cleveland State Community College, Cleveland, TN
Cleveland State Community College
Sustainable Design Initiatives (Arch 2840)
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
College of DuPage
Higher Education Recognition Awards
The Bridge Studio
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
The Bridge Studio
The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology’s (CASE) Built Ecologies (BE) Program
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
CASE
Community Design Center: Building Recombinant Ecologies
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Community Design Center
The Duke Smart Home Program
Duke University, Durham, NC
Duke Smart Home
Master of Science in Sustainable Design Program
Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia University
Honorable Mentions
K-12 Honorable Mentions
Green Schools! Initiative
Project Learning Tree, Washington, DC
Green Schools! Curriculum
Ground Up Design Education Program
Hester Street Collaborative, New York, NY
Hester Street Collaborative
The National Energy
Education Development (NEED) Project, Covington, KY
NEED Project
Higher Ed Honorable Mentions
Equidistant Projection Exercise Sequence
School of Constructed Environments (SCE), Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
School of Constructed Environments (SCE)
Landscape Architecture Students Help the Post-Disaster Community of Greensburg, KS
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Kansas State University
SCI-TECH: A Technology Sequence for Generation Green
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Iowa State University
2008 Incentive Grant Recipients
K-12 Incentive Grants
Chicago Architecture Foundation
The Architecture Handbook2
Chicago Architectural Foundation
Youth Learning Academy
Design + Build + Live Green
Youth Learning Academy
Community College Incentive Grants
Eastern Iowa Community College District (EICCD)
Green Building Technologies
Eastern Iowa Community College
Santa Fe Community College (SFCC)
Green Building Off-the-Grid
Santa Fe Community College
University & College Incentive Grant
Cornell University
Collaborative Green Building Practice
Cornell University
University of Maine-Farmington
Sustainable Architecture that Teaches
Education Center website
2008 Recognition Award Recipients
K-12 Recognition Awards
The Council of Educational Facility Planners
School Building Week: School of the Future Student Design Competition
Design Competition website
Kentucky Environmental Education Council
Kentucky Green & Healthy Schools
Kentucky Green & Healthy Schools website
Community Colleges
Yavapai College
Residential Building Technology Program
Residential Building Technology Program website
University & Colleges
Grand Valley State University
Beyond Curriculum: Cross-Campus Sustainability
Sustainability Initiatives website
University of Texas Austin
The Alley-Flat Initiative
Alley Flat Initiative website
University of Virginia
ecoMOD
ecoMOD website