Resources

While a few resources are listed below, the new Sustainable Oregon Schools website is being designed for optimized access to a broad range of resources by topic area. It should be available by May, 2007 at, http://www.sustainableschools.org. Until then, that address will direct visitors to this site.

Case Studies

Gresham-Barlow School District EPA Energy Star Leader Award (PDF 208K)

Salem-Keizer School District "Watt Watchers" program (PDF 220K)

Catlin Gabel School Invasive Plants Goat Patrol (PDF 236K)

Obsidian Middle School Native Plant Garden (PDF 2.2M)

LaPine Asthma Friendly Schools (PDF 315K)

This section will be updated to share more success stories. Let us know about your story and we'll help share it with others. Just send us an email.

Sustainability Frameworks

1. Triple Bottom Line

• Interviews with John Elkington, originator of concept:
  http://www.johnelkington.com/profile-green-at-work.htm
  http://media.wiley.com/assets/251/55/jrnls_LIA_JB_Quinn2401.pdf
• Global Reporting Initiative and Public Agencies:
  http://www.globalreporting.org/guidelines/resource/public.asp

2. Natural Capitalism

• http://www.naturalcapitalism.org
• http://www.natcap.org/images/other/NCsynopsis.pdf

3. The Natural Step

• Brief Summary of the Natural Step: TNS Summary 060409.pdf
• The Oregon Natural Step Network: Case studies in the Resources section: http://www.ortns.org/
• Methodology background: http://naturalstep.org/learn/methodology.php
• Applying the Natural Step to Construction: Report from the TNS Construction Industry Group

4. Zero Waste

• Zero Waste Alliance: http://www.zerowaste.org
• Zero Waste International Alliance: http://www.grrn.org/zerowaste/articles/zwia.html

5. Sustainability Indicators

• Sustainable Measures: http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/Database/index.html

6. Sustainability Papers

• Sustainability for kids (PDF 472K)
• Sustainability for adults (PDF 330K)

EPA's HealthySEAT

EPA has developed a unique software tool, to help school districts evaluate and manage their school facilities for key environmental, safety and health issues. The new Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool (HealthySEAT) is designed to be customized and used by district-level staff to conduct completely voluntary self-assessments of their school (and other) facilities and to track and manage information on environmental conditions school by school.

SOSI convened a meeting to introduce HealthySEAT to Oregon on October 31, 2006.
See the Oregon presentation: HealthySEAT_Oregon_Training_10.31.06.ppt
For more information: http://www.epa.gov/schools/healthyseat/

General

Fundraising tips: http://www.zerowaste.org/schools/documents/Eco-Friendly_Fundraising.pdf

Dictionary of sustainability: http://www.sustainabilitydictionary.com/about.php

Oregon Department of Education: http://www.ode.state.or.us/

The 2005-06 Oregon Standards Newspaper: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=38

Clearing Magazine, a unique quarterly magazine that serves as the journal of environmental, place-based, natural resources education for the Pacific Northwest. http://www.clearingmagazine.org/

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