January 18, 2002
Greenhouse Effect
It's not easy being green. Indeed, the energy cost of a new Oberlin College building that's supposedly friendly to the environment has given one professor the blues and has others seeing red.
Before the $6.4-million Adam Joseph Lewis Center opened, in 2000, it had a projected annual energy usage of 65,000 kilowatt-hours. The center, which houses the college's environmental-studies program, sports such features as the Living Machine, an on-site septic system that recycles wastewater for
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