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Haywood Community College: Leading The Change in Haywood County

This video is an entry in a contest we've launched with Second Nature's Climate Leadership Awards. See below for how you can vote for it. See more entries in this contest HCC is demonstrating green...
Haywood Community College has demonstrated green building techniques to their local community, is building a LEED Platinum building, and bought EVs for their security fleet.
Preston jacobsen, Sustainability Analyst at HCC

Planet Forward Contributor

March 13, 2012
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Biofuels, Colleges & Education, Renewable Energy, Solar, Transportation, Water

This video is an entry in a contest we’ve launched with Second Nature’s Climate Leadership Awards. See below for how you can vote for it.
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HCC is demonstrating green building techniques to share with the local community, as well as building a LEED Platinum Creative Arts building. It includes solar, rainwater capture, locally harvested lumber, and daylighting, among other techniques.

They have an electric vehicle fleet used by the security services, and have installed a charging station on campus. They are also collecting waste grease from the Haywood school system and using it in their automotive program as fuel.

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