Featured in Store for more – 05-2012

Green school at the tip of Manhattan

Building integrated PV: Battery Park City School in Lower Manhattan, open since September 2010, was the first institution to conform to the New York City School Construction Authority’s Green Schools Guide.

The 950 children who attend the Battery Park City School in Lower Manhattan are going through a process of “naturalization” – and it has nothing to do with citizenship: Not only does their curriculum include a strong focus on sustainability, but their eight-story “schoolhouse” in New York City is environmentally designed and powered, from the …

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