July 13, 2009

A Green Building at Ithaca College Demands Help From Its Occupants

A Green Building at Ithaca College Demands Help From Its Occupants 1

Ithaca College

Ithaca College hopes that its new Peggy Ryan Williams Center will earn the college a second LEED platinum rating.

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Ithaca College

Ithaca College hopes that its new Peggy Ryan Williams Center will earn the college a second LEED platinum rating.

By Scott Carlson

Ithaca, N.Y.

Thanks to technology and cheap energy, the average cubicle worker in the average American building can be as carefree as any old-fashioned, energy-guzzling American ideal. Just show up to work, plop down in a seat, and the building—sealed off from the outside and flushed with temperate air and electricity—will supply all comforts and needs.

In the grand scope of history, that kind of building is anomalous—buildings have always been designed to respond to and work

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