The Nature of It All: Toyota Donates $1 Million to Help Fund New Yellowstone Youth Campus
August 25 2016 - 12:00PM
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Campus Will Be First Regenerative Campus of
Living Buildings in a National Park
Online gaming or using social media apps - kids often live in
virtual environments. But kids in Yellowstone National Park will
soon have a new living environment to explore, with help from
Toyota.
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Today the automaker presented a $1 million donation to the
Yellowstone Park Foundation to support the development of a new
Yellowstone Youth Campus. The new campus will be a home for
immersive youth programming in the park, creating a place of
learning for future generations of conservationists and a pretty
cool hang-out to share experiences.
Designed by Hennebery Eddy Architects of Portland, Ore., the new
Yellowstone Youth Campus aims to be the first buildings in a
national park to achieve Living Building Challenge Certification.
One of the most rigorous environmental building certifications in
the world, the Living Building Challenge integrates ecological
relationship, cultural heritage, stewardship, sustainability and
leadership into all aspects of design, construction and operation.
The result is a “Living Lab” for all who enter.
“The new Yellowstone Youth Campus is an opportunity to support
the conservation principles of the National Park Service while
reinforcing Toyota’s commitment to the environment,” said Toyota
Motor North America Environmental General Manager Kevin Butt. “We
hope this environmental learning center will inspire and empower
future leaders in building a more culturally aware, ecologically
responsible and regenerative future.”
While the campus expands, the environmental footprint is
expected to shrink with pursuit of the Living Building Challenge.
The buildings are designed to significantly reduce energy use
through high-performance insulation and windows, natural
ventilation, and other passive measures. Planned photovoltaic
arrays on-site will provide more than 100 percent of campus energy
needs, creating excess energy for the grid. One hundred percent of
water used on campus will be locally sourced and all wastewater
will be treated on-site for reuse. The design prioritizes a healthy
indoor environment by using only non-toxic and low VOC building
materials and furnishings. Once complete, the campus will serve as
a new benchmark for National Park Service projects.
It also will serve as the home of two youth programs, each with
a national reach – Expedition Yellowstone and the Youth
Conservation Corps. Expedition Yellowstone provides week-long
residential experiences for grade school-aged children with a focus
on disadvantaged populations, while the Youth Conservation Corps
offers a one-month immersive summer program for high-school
students. Replacing the existing Youth Conservation Corps campus,
the new youth campus will be able to serve twice the current
student capacity with the addition of four classrooms, residential
buildings and staff housing on-site.
This isn’t Toyota’s first footprint in the park. In 2015, Toyota
introduced a unique, renewable distributed energy system at the
Lamar Buffalo Ranch. By combining solar power with re-used Camry
Hybrid battery packs, the system provides reliable, sustainable,
zero emission power to the ranger station and education center for
the first time since it was founded in 1907.
And when Yellowstone designed the new Old Faithful Visitor
Education Center (OFVEC), Toyota engineers shared knowledge gained
during construction of its Gold Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) certified office complex in Torrance,
Calif. The automaker also provided a $1 million gift to the
foundation for construction of the Center, which opened in
2010.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM), the world's top automaker and creator of the
Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle, is committed to advancing
mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands. Over the past 50
years, we’ve produced more than 30 million cars and trucks in North
America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.)
and directly employ more than 44,000 people (more than 34,000 in
the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (1,500 in the U.S.)
sold more than 2.8 million cars and trucks (nearly 2.5 million in
the U.S.) in 2015 – and about 80 percent of all Toyota vehicles
sold over the past 20 years are still on the road today.
Toyota partners with community, civic, academic, and
governmental organizations to address our society’s most pressing
mobility challenges. We share company resources and extensive
know-how to support non-profits to help expand their ability to
assist more people move more places.
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