Breaking Ground
Sun Works Center for Environmental Studies to break ground on Earth Day 2010
We are proud to announce that the Sun Works Center for Environmental Studies will begin construction in April, 2010.
The center is the product of a two year collaboration between New York Sun Works, BrightFarm Systems, and the Manhattan School for Children, with support also coming from Kiss+Cathcart Architects.
The center will be built using a traditional greenhouse structure, but will accommodate an urban farm as well as an environmental science laboratory. Children will grow food, and learn about food and nutrition, but they will also learn about water resource management, efficient land use, climate change, biodiversity, conservation, contamination, pollution, waste management, and sustainable development. The center’s ability to combine both state of the art environmental education with urban food production will make it a truly unique facility.
Located on the roof of the school building on Manhattan’s West 93rd Street, the center will serve students from kindergarten through to eigth grade. It will also be used as a teacher training facility for educators from around the city and region.
New York Sun Works, the nonprofit sister company of BrightFarm Systems, recently launched an initiative called The Greenhouse Project to emulate the success at PS333 and bring environmental education systems to other public schools across New York City.
The Sun Works Center project page can be found here
Information about the Greenhouse Project can be found here
Or by emailing: info [at] nysunworks.org
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