Reduced Toxins Solutions

CAMPUS Examples

• Entry: Conduct a baseline audit of green building design practices on campus. 

• Mid Level: Improve the schools green cleaning practices through updating purchasing policies, training all school staff, and educating the school community on these practices.

• Full Integration: Create a comprehensive and integrative integrated pest management plan, with the goal of greatly reducing chemical use, with 100% certified green cleaning products. These plans address both preventative pest management practices, training for school staff and teachers, and look at indoors as well as chemicals used in grounds management.

CURRICULUM Examples

• Entry: Provide students with supplemental lessons that examine green buildings.

• Mid Level: Create lessons for students to examine green buildings from multiple lenses and identify economic, social, and environmental issues. Students then apply their learning by collecting data from their campuses, developing awareness campaigns and setting up action plans for their school. 

• Full Integration: Deliver a green building curriculum to every student in the school. Ongoing education paired with campus events and facilities affords students a comprehensive understanding of green building design principles.

COMMUNITY AND CULTURE Examples

• Entry: Host a one-off school and/or community-wide event about the importance of green buildings with at least 10% participation.

• Mid Level: Participate in a short-term awareness or action campaign focusing on green buildings (could be focused on design or on green cleaning) with 20-50% participation in the school community.

• Full Integration: Implement an ongoing awareness or action campaign focusing on green buildings with over 50% participation in the school community.

A community impact project (CIP) is service work done by a person or group of people that benefits a local community (school, neighborhood, city, etc.).

• Student-Led Projects: Leading solutionary community impact projects allow student voices to be heard and incorporated into local policy, provides an opportunity for youth to develop leadership skills and career training, and can make lasting impacts that improve the health and wellbeing of a community. This resource provides a framework for student-led projects, as well as examples. 

• Teacher and Administrator-Led Projects: Leading solutionary projects provides an opportunity for administrators and teachers to make lasting impacts that improve the health and wellbeing of a school community. This resource provides a framework for administrator and teacher-led projects, as well as examples.