Despite a shortened project timeline and a busy spring semester of standardized testing and holidays, the BCPSS Green Schools Program has shown a fair bit of success in reducing overall energy use in the three school buildings where the program has been piloted. The February and March energy bills show a combined decrease of 2.7% overall (only partial data is available for April at this time), resulting in a 7.2 Kw, $1,067 savings between the three buildings. These results in each of these facilities are the product of the ongoing efforts of teachers and students who have been actively engaging in saving energy and getting everyone in the building involved in simple actions like turning off lights and unplugging electronics when not in use. The focus of the first few 6 weeks was placed on educating student Green Teams about the basics of energy efficiency, familiarizing them with the use of simple diagnostic tools and guiding them through the collection of energy data from various parts of their facility. The focus after spring break shifted towards outreach and engagement of other students and all teachers and staff. Students generated recommendations to share with school administrators, and then used their creativity to craft announcements, posters, visual aids and songs (!) to spread the message of energy efficiency. Pictures, videos and notes may be found on the websites of each school: Curtis Bay EMS: http://curtisbay.weebly.com/data.html Baltimore Leadership School: http://blsyw.weebly.com/learning-about-energy.html WEB Dubois / RFL / Accelerator: http://webrfl.weebly.com/index.html

1. a P OW ERf u l
C e l e b r a t io n

2. Congratulations!!
3.5%
reduction

3. ASE Green Schools Program
energyhog.org

4. Curtis Bay Elementary Middle

5. Curtis Bay Elementary Middle

6. Curtis Bay Elementary Middle

7. Curtis Bay Elementary Middle

8. Curtis Bay Elementary Middle

9. Reginald F. Lewis
School of Business and Law

10. Reginald F. Lewis

11. Reginald F. Lewis

12. Reginald F. Lewis

13. WEB Dubois High School

15. WEB Dubois High School

16. WEB Dubois High School

17. Accelerator Program

18. Accelerator

19. Accelerator

20. Accelerator

21. Baltimore Leadership School
for Young Women

22. BLSYW

23. BLSYW

24. BLSYW

25. BLSYW

26. BLSYW

27. Green Schools Volunteers

28. Thank you
Sustainable Schools Committee

29. Thank you

30. Green Schools Pros

31. Thank you
Office of Engagement

32. Thank you

33. Congratulations

34. One wire…
When one tugs at a he finds it attached to
single thing in nature, the rest of the world.
John Muir

35. THAN K YOU