In the United States, K–12 school buildings spend more than $8 billion each year on energy—more than they spend on computers and textbooks combined [i]. Most occupied older buildings demonstrate poor operational performance—for instance, more than 30 percent of schools...

As pointed out by one of the greatest physicists of this century, Freeman Dyson: “It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology… Biology is also more im...