It’s not often that kids have the opportunity to apply what
they’re learning to help renovate their school. But students
from Metro Montessori Middle School visited the Portland State
campus this week with the intention of doing just that—by
learning how to make a recently purchased school building as
energy-efficient as possible. “What can we do to improve our
building now?” asked Eleanor Kemp, an eighth grader at Metro
Montessori. For the past month, Kemp and her classmates have
been studying green buildings and EcoDistricts, communities
committed to achieving neighborhood-scale sustainability goals.
Students from Metro Montessori Middle School visited PSU to
learn about green buildings and energy. Fletcher Beaudoin and
Kate Williams from the PSU Institute for Sustainable Solutions
took the students on a tour of PSU’s green energy features, from
Electric Avenue to the new energy-efficient light fixtures in
historic Lincoln Hall. After the tour, the students calculated
how much carbon emissions different kin