Bellingham Public Schools Foundation – Let’s Make Sunnyland Solar!!

by | Apr 27, 2021

A Message from Sunnyland Elementary School

Dear Sunnyland community and neighbors,

As we break ground this spring on the new Sunnyland Elementary and look forward to welcoming students, staff and our community into our new school in fall 2022, we are excited to share a grassroots initiative to solarize our new school.

Sunnyland parent Ted Clifton, who is also a member of the Sunnyland Educational Specifications/Design Advisory Committee, has inspired this project with ​a generous matching challenge gift of $10,000 to the Bellingham Public Schools Foundation (BPSF) to establish a new fund to provide solar panels at Sunnyland. That means the first $10,000 dollars of community giving will be matched dollar for dollar.

Anyone can donate to the new Solarize Sunnyland fund at the BPSF.

This project was inspired by Dawson Construction’s donation to the new Sehome High School, which allowed the school to install solar panels.

This is a meaningful opportunity to invest in Sunnyland and our planet! We are excited the money we save in electric and power will be put back into the classroom for kids, teachers and supplies.

All new schools and buildings in our district, including the new Sunnyland, are now built “solar ready,” which means donations collected to benefit this project will go directly into installing, operating and purchasing new panels. Sunnyland has capacity for 100-kilowatt array. Our district is excited to learn from this project, and it may influence bond planning in the future as we look to build other replacement schools with a focus on sustainability.

Thank you, Sunnyland community for your consideration to donate.

Donate HERE: https://secure.lglforms.com/form…/s/eb4NiPkPb7zIOA6_-e_CCg

Related Posts

ADU Reform at the City & State Levels

ADU Reform at the City & State Levels

Written By: Nicole Miller Currently both Washington State and the City of Bellingham are proposing changes to the current ADU regulations and process. From the outside it may seem complicated and long winded, but we’ve been keeping up to date with it, so you don’t...

House in the Hollow Case Study

House in the Hollow Case Study

This just in and hot off the press - the House in the Hollow Case Study! TC Legend built this net-zero house through the winter of 2020/ 2021. The house-in-a-hollow isn’t really in a hollow, it’s on a knoll, above protected wetlands, northeast of Bellingham. The...

2022 Wrap Up – TC Legend Homes Achievements & Company Culture

2022 Wrap Up – TC Legend Homes Achievements & Company Culture

As we come towards the end of 2022, which in former years Winter was our slow season, the company is still quite busy with our six houses in the queue! The end of the year is always a great time to reflect on these past four seasons and solar cycle. Especially 2022......

Zero-Energy Building Fan?

Sign up for TC Legend updates.