Excellence in Green Building Education Awards

The curricula and programs below reflect high quality green building education, serving as models and resources for other educators.

2009 Recipients

Click here for award winning program descriptions

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
NEXT.cc

“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