International Green School opens its doors in SA
There s a new school on the block - or more specifically, on eight hectares near Paarl in the Cape Winelands. Green School South Africa is modelled on the first Green School established in Bali in 2008, and is the third in a planned international network of Green Schools, following the establishment of the second campus in New Zealand.
Constructed from naturally and locally sourced materials, the school is powered by solar-generated electricity, and the water balance has been carefully calculated to ensure that water extracted from the river and borehole is replenished with rainwater received. Administrative buildings and classrooms are set within vegetable gardens, orchards and grain fields.