A Green School in Japan

We visited a Japanese green school today!  This reinforced for me that green design is the balance of human life and activity with local surroundings.

Poster explaining how the snow is used

One of the green features of this green school is to use snow for air conditioning in the summer.  In this region of Niigata approx 10 feet of snow accumulates every winter.  People often enter and exit their homes through the second story windows, but the summers are hot enough to grow tomatoes.

I met a "snow man" and he had a solution to save energy of electricity for air conditioning.