Rick Fedrizzi. “The greening of Pittsburgh: Next up, schools.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. PG Publishing Co., Inc., 24 March 2016. Web. 25 March 2016.
Pittsburgh is known for its Leadership in Energy an Environmental Design certifications. The majority of the buildings in Pittsburgh have been designed to be ecologically efficient, making the natural environment healthier for its people. The next goal is to make schools go green too so the kids in Pittsburgh will have a more healthy environment to learn in.
The article goes on to point out that there are many schools throughout the United States that are not built to be healthy for the kids and people who work there. It states in the article that it has been proven by research that bad quality construction of schools can lead to students having bad eyesight, concentration, and unhealthy breathing. Their goal is to create and update schools that will provide a healthy and safe built environment that the kids of Pittsburgh can successfully learn in.
I chose this article because it is the first article that I have seen that speaks on the topic of changing schools to improve the health of children and employees in the schools. This is related to a few of my other annotations because it is about the effect of the built environment on peoples’ health.