Tecnologico de MonterreyCampus, Queretaro

April 20, 2012

Think Green, Build Green

Robert J. Kobet, AIAPresident, LEED FacultyThe Kobet Collaborative

bob@bobkobet.comwww.bobkobet.com

Promoting Environmental Stewardship

Nature’s Classroom in the Pine Jog Preserve

O.W.L TeamOur World LEEDers

Leadership inEnergy andEnvironmentalDesign

Junior Rangers

Second through Fifth Grade Representatives

Presentation from Mr. Vertigro

Garden Planted by Kindergarten to Fifth

Graders

Writing our Business Planwith Mr. Loren

So, if you want to increase your profitability what can you do?

Make our pots out of recycled containers so we don’t have to buy them.

Tell Jack not to eat so many strawberries when we’re picken’ ‘em!

Strawberry Festival

Community

Facility Curriculum

Making the TIME for Kids Cover(4,000,000 copies worldwide)

The Pine Jog kids cleared over$2000 the first year

1/3 of the produce went home 1/3 of the produce went to

support the garden program 1/3 went to a local food bank

The program is so successful it is being expanded to all new

schools and several existingschools by request

No one ever made Time Magazinefor cutting grass.

80% of students who drop out of K12 programs have passing grades; they simply don’t want to be in school.

I N P A R T I C I P A T I ON W I T H :

Young Masters Programme on Sustainable Development

YMP – Learning Network for ESD

Vision for the YMP

The most comprehensive and exciting learning networkon sustainable development in the world!

Available for freefor young people

everywhere!

Adam Joseph Lewis Center Oberlin College

Building Program*• Discharge no waste water, i.e. drinking water in, drinking water out• Generate more electricity than it uses• No materials that are carcinogenic, mutagenic or endocrine disrupters• Use energy and materials efficiently• Sustainably manufactured materials• Landscape to promote biodiversity• Promote ecological competence and be mindful of place• Be genuinely pedagogical in design and operation• Meet rigorous requirements for full cost accounting

The Nature of Design – Ecology, Culture and Human Intention

David Orr

“ In short, we have an obligation to equip our students to do the hard work ahead of… .* ”

• learning to power civilization by current sunlight

• reducing the amount of materials, water, and land use per capita

• growing food and fiber sustainably

• eliminating the concept of waste

• preserving biological diversity

• restoring ecologies ruined in the past century

• rethinking the political basis of modern society

• developing economies that can be sustained within the limits of nature• distributing wealth fairly within and between generations

* The Nature of Design – Ecology, Culture and Human Intention David Orr

I N P A R T I C I P A T I ON W I T H :

Young Masters Programme on Sustainable Development

YMP – Learning Network for ESD

Vision for the YMP

The most comprehensive and exciting learning networkon sustainable development in the world!

Available for freefor young people

everywhere!

Adam Joseph Lewis Center Oberlin College

Building Program*• Discharge no waste water, i.e. drinking water in, drinking water out• Generate more electricity than it uses• No materials that are carcinogenic, mutagenic or endocrine disrupters• Use energy and materials efficiently• Sustainably manufactured materials• Landscape to promote biodiversity• Promote ecological competence and be mindful of place• Be genuinely pedagogical in design and operation• Meet rigorous requirements for full cost accounting

The Nature of Design – Ecology, Culture and Human Intention

David Orr

“ In short, we have an obligation to equip our students to do the hard work ahead of… .* ”

• learning to power civilization by current sunlight

• reducing the amount of materials, water, and land use per capita

• growing food and fiber sustainably

• eliminating the concept of waste

• preserving biological diversity

• restoring ecologies ruined in the past century

• rethinking the political basis of modern society

• developing economies that can be sustained within the limits of nature• distributing wealth fairly within and between generations

* The Nature of Design – Ecology, Culture and Human Intention David Orr