Colleges go 'green' to stretch budgets (AP/CNN)

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Environmental efforts help schools self-sustain and conserve energy
Friday, June 9, 2006; Posted: 11:48 a.m. EDT (15:48 GMT)
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"The vision ... is to make sustainability the foundation of everything we do for education," said Jen Everett, an assistant philosophy professor at Carleton who teaches an environmental ethics class. "We need to graduate students who are going to be radically different kinds of thinkers than we were trained to be."

More than 600 schools in the United States and Canada have sustainability efforts under way, said Judy Walton, executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
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Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona, recently broke ground on a new solar field that is expected to save $15,000 annually in heating and cooling costs.

And at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, a $5.7 million co-generation plant is expected to save $870,000 in fossil fuels and electricity. The project includes one generator to produce electricity and another to capture heat that's normally wasted.
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St. Olaf's wind turbine, which covers about a third of its needs, is expected to save as much as $300,000 a year, said Pete Sandberg, St. Olaf's assistant vice president for facilities.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/06/09/green.colleges.ap/index.html

"...radically different kinds of thinkers than we were trained to be." That quote is a keeper.

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1. Good to see. I support some level of "green standard" in all

public funded projects as well.

http://www.apolloalliance.org/

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2. This just got put up at Mass Maritime Academy...

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=44708

The guy who contracted it the same guy proposing the Buzzards Bay windfarm.