June 25, 1999

Oberlin College's New Environmental-Studies Center Teaches by Design

A new environmental-studies center at Oberlin College is designed to help teach some of the lessons that will be presented within its walls.

The structure will function sort of like a tree: Water within the building will be recycled, and solar panels will turn sunlight into energy.

Professors and students at Oberlin began to think about an ecologically friendly building in 1992, when David W. Orr, the

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