California college GOING GREEN

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California college is first to go 'grid positive' Dozens of colleges in the Mid-Atlantic and beyond have become community leaders in sustainability, producing alternative energy en masse and scaling back energy consumption dramatically. American University, for one, says it will be carbon neutral by 2020. The University of Maryland made Princeton Review's Green Honor Roll for raising its recycling rate past 50 percent. Johns Hopkins University has pledged to halve its emissions over 15 years. The list goes on and on. This release, though, caught my eye. Butte College in Northern California says it has become the first and only "grid positive" college in the nation, producing more clean energy than it uses. Butte College is poised to become the largest collegiate producer of solar power in the world, generating enough electricity to power 9,200 homes. (I think the shiny blue-metallic things in this picture are solar panels.) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com

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