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The University of New Mexico recently released its first comprehensive sustainability plan to reduce its environmental footprint, highlighting key areas it plans to change to meet better energy and operations standards. The five-year plan is a culmination of an extensive year-long process that gathered feedback from the campus community through interviews, focus groups, a campus-wide survey, and town halls.
Each action item has to do with lessening human impact on resources like energy and water. One of which is a major campus infrastructure project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by transitioning all new buildings to fully electric, and switching the heating systems from gas to geothermal or solar energy. The new police building will be the university’s first all-electric building, and the new CCAT building will be its second.
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