VEEP PROGRAMSGreen Schools

Be a part of the solution, begin with your school. In Green Schools, VEEP works with a team of students and staff to analyze energy use in their school and find opportunities to save energy. VEEP provides equipment and training to your team, and coaching throughout the process. Student teams can do life-cycle analysis using Excel, map light levels in the school, make fixture recommendations, etc. The project culminates in a set of recommendations, which students present to the school board for approval and implementation. Green Schools is funded by EVT and is free to participating schools.

“The MMU Board has unanimously approved the Browns River Middle School Parking Lot Lighting Project. We were quite impressed with the students' presentation”

Jeff Forward, School Board Member

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GREEN SCHOOLS CASE STUDY

Green Schools

The Cabot School, Cabot, VT

Located about 20 miles northeast of Montpelier, on the edge of the Northeast Kingdom, Cabot, Vermont is a rural farming community best known for the collective of dairy farms that share its name.  The Cabot School sits close by the town green and is a center of community life.  For a decade now, VEEP has worked with the teachers and students of the Cabot School to bring energy literacy into the classroom, with some remarkable results.  As one teacher put it, the partnership has “deeply influenced the culture of energy use here at the school, as well as in the town.”