Middlebury College's Biomass Heating and Cooling Plant Aims to Cut Carbon and Costs—in Big Ways
In 2004, when Middlebury College committed itself to cutting by 8 percent its carbon emissions—a pledge it would later strengthen, to full carbon neutrality by 2016—“among the different actions that were identified, biomass was clearly one that could make a big difference,” recalls Jack Byrne, sustainability coordinator at the renowned Vermont liberal-arts college...