Daily Hampshire Gazette
Summary
More than a year into a six-year, $220 million project to convert Smith College into a geothermal campus, officials used last weekend’s two-day presidential inauguration ceremonies to highlight the work that’s expected make its campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade.
Announced to great fanfare in the spring of 2022, the Geothermal Campus Energy Project aims to convert campus heating and cooling systems from fossil fuels — what the college has used for 80 years — to geothermal energy. When the new system is complete, the school hopes it will last just as long, if not longer, than its current one.
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