October 20, 2006

Truth in Advertising: Middlebury College's Biomass Plant

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

While sustainability efforts are well intentioned, the results — particularly in the short term — do not always match the rhetoric.

The claim: In 2008 the college will open an $11-million biomass plant that will burn wood chips to help heat and cool campus buildings and produce electricity. The plant will reduce the college's consumption of fuel oil by 50 percent and "will cut the college's greenhouse gas emissions by almost 12,500 metric tons

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