Greening efforts on campus are often reported to enhance students’
performance in class and help higher education systems better equipped with a strong
sense of sustainability. LEED certification program promotes the greening efforts on
campus that can also affect surrounding communities. This chapter looks into these
efforts and their consequences on and around campus. Two exemplary schools are
selected based on their success in implementing LEED program into building
construction and renovation and applying it to the pedagogy of education for
sustainability and eco-friendly practices. Georgia Tech has successfully transformed its
campus more walkable, bikeable using LEED as a tool for on-going operations and
maintenance of the campus. LEED program is aligned with its more than 100 courses
with a sustainability focus. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)
successfully completed building renovation through LEED. The project is notable
because of the reuse of existing structural elements rather tearing down and using new
materials.
Keywords: Building renovation, Building reuse, Carbon neutral buildings, CO2
sensors, Green buildings, Green metric, HVAC, Irrigation, LEED certificate, Rain
garden, Runoff water, Stormwater, Sustainability, VOCs.