Amherst College is taking on one of the most ambitious challenges in higher education: campus decarbonization on a 200-year-old campus. In this video, Lindsey Olsen and Doug Hammerle share how the college is cutting fossil fuel use on campus by moving from steam to low-temperature hot water and a geothermal system. The work supports Amherst’s goal of reaching net zero. Many institutions have made net zero commitments. Far fewer have worked out where the replacement energy will come from or what it will take to deliver it. Amherst College faced that same gap. Setting the goal was the easy part. Meeting it meant changing the energy infrastructure that heats and serves the campus every day. Today, the new energy system is up and running, and about 70% of the core campus runs on...
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