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From Jetson Green
Last month, Lorax Development broke ground
on a building that's being billed as the first off-grid building in San
Francisco. At 1400 sf, The Eco Center is certainly an example of the
future of green buildings -- buildings that are off-grid and
sustainable. The Eco Center is a $1.5 million environmental education
center that will be located in McLaren Park. Designed by Toby Long Design
for the non-profit Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ), when it
opens in the fall, it will be the first building in San Francisco,
purportedly, to recycle its own wastewater. Additionally, the off-grid
center will have solar panels and an extensive green roof.
This is going to be an incredible facility serving the San Francisco area.
Speaking of the educational aspects of The Eco Center, project manager Laurie Schoeman said, "When
the lights go out, and there’s no energy from the sun, we’ll need to be
mindful that we don’t have unlimited amounts of energy ... and we’re
going to showcase to kids that, when you flush the toilet, it goes
somewhere."
I think it's great that we're teaching young students important
lessons of conservation and sustainability, but if you really think
about it, maybe we need an educational center that teaches adults the
same?
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