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- Title
How green is your campus?
- Authors
Mascarelli, Amanda Leigh
- Abstract
The article discusses the efforts initiated by U.S. universities to bring sustainable development in their campuses and classrooms. They developed more than 300 signatories, which submitted to the climate commitment and greenhouse gas inventories that tally electricity use, heating and cooling of buildings. However, it was found that it is difficult to find a universal system of ranking or grading sustainability because schools grapple with different challenges. Meanwhile, other schools have constructed a large scale wind-research turbine that supplies to most of its buildings and installing solar panels that will produce a megawatt of energy to power the campus.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges &; the environment; SUSTAINABLE development; SUSTAINABLE buildings; GREENHOUSE gas mitigation; WIND turbine design &; construction; SOLAR panels; SOLAR energy; SUSTAINABILITY
- Publication
Nature, 2009, Vol 461, Issue 7261, p154
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/461154a