Category: Special Features— a page dedicated to showcasing Environmental Science research projects
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Lawrenceville’s Role in Forest Carbon Capture
By prioritizing nature-based interventions, such as developing new forests or protecting and restoring current woodlands, Lawrenceville can contribute to controlling carbon emissions. Using digital resources like Restor and the EnRoads simulator, our community can make an impact by interpreting data and creating new ecological strategies to capture carbon emissions. Schools like Lawrenceville can make a…
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Slash Waste, Save Cash: Smarter Buildings for a Greener Future
In 2023, Amory Lovins, co-founder of the energy organization Rocky Mountain Institute, claimed that “energy efficiency resources are infinitely expendable resources of ideas, depleting only stupidity, a very abundant resource”. In other words, he is confident that there are abundant, often overlooked opportunities to cut energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Although growing investments…
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The Coolest Cooling System in Princeton
How Princeton Day School Reduced Hockey Rink Emissions When you think of CO₂, does your mind jump to heat? Greenhouse gasses? Global warming? A common misconception is that carbon dioxide is a gas only attributed to heat. However, at Princeton Day School (PDS) the gas is used for quite the opposite. We took the time…
