School was never like this when we were kids. Recycled this, renewable that. We certainly weren’t phi beta kappas but the Mission based Children’s Day School gets an A- for its recent Green additions. We expect it to bump that grade to a full fledged A when some of the other Green items come on board in the next few years.
In the meantime, the kids get into the Green scene with the updated Warhol-like bathroom partitions made from 100% recycled post-consumer plastic detergent bottles, and the flooring concocted from 100% recycled marble and granite terrazzo tiles. The bathrooms offer the kids a chance to use low flow urinals as will but Green architect Lincoln Lighthill of Jensen Architects told us that he wanted waterless urinals toilets installed in the school, however the City put the kabash to that idea. Doesn’t San Fran have some Green building directive or is that just talk? We have no doubt that the kids could figure out about waterless toilets but can the City figure it out? The Gaia Hotel in nearby American Canyon contains waterless urinals so why wouldn’t the City allow waterless toilets here in this school? Somebody needs to be educated.
The school’s multi-purpose kitchen represents a Green home ec dream with cabinets made from rapidly renewable bamboo plywood, cabinet boxes comprised of medium density fiberboard (MDF), 100% recycled wood, VOC and formaldehyde-free and our favorite the seemingly innocuous sliding whiteboard which garners the coveted Cradle to Cradle certification as it’s made from 100% recyclable and renewable materials. It makes us want to pull a Rodney Dangerfield and go Back to School.
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Wow! They are beautiful too as far as bathroom stalls go. I could pee in there.