Schools: places of extreme importance, where would society be without them? But, as vital a thing as education is, schools are also right up there on the list of places which waste vast amounts of energy and need to become more energy efficient and FAST! Want to read more about how schools everywhere are set to redeem themselves by turning themselves around? Look no further than the following link: http://www.eniginliaison.com/2010/08/04/schools-to-manage-energy-efficiency/

It’s not hard to see why schools are such a difficult thing to tackle when it comes to energy expenditure: they are places filled with little people who just want to have fun, turning lights on and off, and all the other things which are so much fun and really annoy the adults. Now that Secondary Teaching Jobs come with the responsibility of practicing energy efficiency, the challenge will be how to integrate energy saving in to schools without making them boring places to be, after all, having fun when you’re a child is just as important as any amount of energy saving, isn’t it?

Thankfully, new technology (much of which is talked about at various Enigin blogs and websites which is certainly worth a look) means that there is no reason whatsoever why energy saving should interfere with learning or having fun in the playground. And the best bit of all this should be obvious: children get to grow up with a good attitude to the environment and nature, which means that hopefully in the future they will care more about the decisions they make that will impact on the rest of us.