About the author  ⁄ Alan Organschi

Alan Organschi is a Partner at Gray Organschi Architecture. He also the founder of JIG Design Build, which engages in the research, prototyping, fabrication, and installation of building components and systems, and a faculty member at the Yale School of Architecture. With support from the Hines Fund for Advanced Sustainability Research in Architecture at Yale, he directs the interdisciplinary research initiative Timber City, which examines potentially regenerative supply chains linking sustainable forest management and dense urban development of housing and infrastructure in wood.

Common Ground High School in New Haven, Connecticut

At Common Ground High School, environmental management is both a subject for study and a daily activity. This small public charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, serves 225 high schoolers and, through its umbrella organization, The New Haven Ecology Project, engages an additional 12,000 children and adults from New Haven’s inner city and metropolitan communities in a range of ecologically-focused campus activities throughout the year.

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