Sonoji Sakai Intermediate School was built in 1999 and has won awards for its “green” design. The lights turn off automatically, the school has bioswales that protect the salmon stream behind it and it is built on registered backyard wildlife habitat.
As a Renewable School, Sonoji Sakai Intermediate school in Bainbridge Island, Washington is building a dedicated community of renewable energy educators, generating clean energy through their 5.1-kilowatt photovoltaic (PV) system, and leveraging the system's performance data as an educational tool to bring energy topics to life in... Read full project narrative >>