Going Green 101

Swarthmore College & Sustainability: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sustainability.xml

Scott Arboretum: http://www.scottarboretum.org/

Swarthmore College Science Center: http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/releases/06/sciencecenter.html

Homemade Solar Power by Lauren Goodfriend '08: http://www.swarthmore.edu/x16023.xml

Mark Wallace: http://www.swarthmore.edu/x11741.xml

Some of the environmental initiatives currently underway on campus are featured in this news report. Included is Scott Arboretum horticulturalist Jeff Jabco, who gives a tour of Alice Paul Hall's green roof and the rainwater collection system used at the LEED-certified Science Center, and engineering major Lauren Goodfriend '08, who shows off the system she designed to create her solar-powered dorm room. Also appearing is religion professor Mark Wallace, who argues that a wide range of resources is needed to address the current "environmental crisis."

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Education

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• swarthmore
• college
• LEED
• green
• roof
• environment
• environmental
• crisis