The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Good-Steward Guidelines

By BROCK READ

It's not easy being green.

Carnegie Mellon University's New House dormitory might mark a watershed moment in environmentally friendly building design, but it racked up fewer than 40 of a possible 69 points in a rating system devised by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. That earned the building a silver medal in a system...

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