"Carbon footprint"

Vermont Academy Featured for its Green Initiatives

The blog, Green Is Sexy, highlights Vermont Academy environmental initiatives and policies as part of their CFL Spotlight series. Of course it took me a second to get the CFL reference. VA is on top of their eco-concious practices and policies with a Bottled Water Initiative, composting, recycling, organic and local source movements. Most interesting [...]

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The Putney School’s Net-Zero Energy Building

WCAX profiled Putney School‘s new athletic field house- the first net-zero facility in the state of Vermont. As school CFO, Randy Smith told WCAX, “The operational cost of the building from an energy perspective is zero.” Quite impressive. Click the image below to view WCAX’s new segment. I tried embedding it in the post, but it [...]

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Boarding Schools Acting on Climate Change: Blog Action Day 2009

Who would’ve imagined a few years back that you could so easily unite and share thousands of voices and perspectives on a single day. Today, 10/15/2009, Blog Action Day, is dedicated to addressing and covering climate change. As part of Blog Action Day 2009, we’d like to highlight the AdmissionsQuest schools that are working to [...]

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