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June 9th, 2010

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74% thought that the greatest obstacle to building green schools was a higher construction cost (an average of $3/square foot).

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Teachers from two similar elementary schools in rural Tennessee reported that students in the modern school had a lower level of discipline and health issues and a higher attendance rate than students in a building from 1939.

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The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) says the average American spends 90% of their day indoors. Often little thought is put into how the built environment impacts our daily routine. As a socially minded architecture student, I think good buildings should enhance our daily lives and not only be available to those with a fist full of cash. I start to wonder if it really is that unrealistic to build green schools in rural areas.

Currently there are numerous schools being housed in what appear to be tin sheds or leftover trailers. When I hear that "green" schools improve the health of teachers and students, raise test scores and decrease student absences, I ask myself why our schools aren't doing more to help our students.

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The proportion of Americans with asthma increased 75% from 1980-1994, and children five years and younger with asthma increased by 160%.

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I think the same is true for our rural communities. Many of our small towns have laxidasically watched as economies have faltered, where to buy Miglitol, Miglitol to buy online, people have moved, and Main Streets have emptied. That's what the road of compliance looks like.

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August 19th, 2009

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Jill Weber Aanenson of Freeman, South Dakota is someone who’s been living the above scenario. She works as a consultant for an out-of-state company that studies radiation and other environmental contaminants. I read about Jill’s story on Eric Abrahamson’s "The New Pioneers", a blog dedicated to showcasing entrepreneurs in the northern Great Plains.

[caption id="attachment_257" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Sunset outside of Freeman, South Dakota"][/caption]

What struck me about Jill’s story was that she grew up in Sioux Falls, SD, has a job that would allow her to live anywhere, and chooses to live in Freeman. And based on Eric’s description, Aanenson is happy there.

Moving to Freeman, however, was not without its challenges. First off, her job was a conversation killer; people couldn’t grasp what a physicist did, let alone talk about it. Second, she held outsider status; not that she was shunned, but she didn’t quite fit in either. This finally began to change, however, when she started to meet other parents and became involved in a few community groups.

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