With more than 700 million students worldwide and one sixth of all Americans entering a K-12 school building each day, there is no questioning the enormity and urgency of the task before us. Both the way we educate and the way we take care of the school environment send a tangible sign of a community’s willingness to provide an excellent and equitable education to all its students. Many of our schools simply send the wrong message: stuffy, poorly lit, overcrowded, and sometimes toxic environments unfit for learning. Poor air quality leads to more colds, flus and asthma attacks; deficient ventilation makes it difficult to focus and stay alert; inadequate lighting can cause headaches and disrupt sleep cycles; and bad acoustics render kids unable to hear lessons. When we educate a child, we choose the future we hope he or she creates. We choose a sustainable future, and so we must educate students to prepare them to create it—in a place that inspires them.

Our kids deserve better. Where they learn matters.

Green Apple gives individuals, companies and organizations the opportunity to transform all our schools into healthy, safe, cost-efficient and productive learning places.