ELI Healthy Schools Project: Vermont

Healthy, High Performance School Facilities:
Developments in State Policy

Vermont

This law creates a school construction standards committee for the purpose of developing a “comprehensive proposal to incorporate high performance school design and construction standards into Vermont school construction projects.” The committee consists of representatives of the state agencies on education, public services and general services, as well as representatives of the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, the state superintendents’ association, and the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The law directs the committee to begin meeting in July 2006 and to report its recommendations to the state legislature by January 2007.

The Innovation in Governance Programs work to develop inventive approaches to new or entrenched environmental problems and changing technologies and economies. The programs focus on four objectives:

Investigate and promote innovative approaches to managing government agencies and private businesses that will achieve greater environmental protection.
Safeguard and strengthen the safety net of federal environmental law, its enforcement in the courts, and its state implementation through strategic research, education, and outreach.
Improve understanding of environmental governance tools by hosting visiting scholars and international delegations.
Through ELI’s Center for Business Environmental Strategy, provide information, ideas and tools for corporate environmental lawyers and executives to improve environmental management.

Healthy, High Performance School Facilities: Developments in State Policy

Vermont

Healthy, High Performance School Facilities:
Developments in State Policy