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The farmer’s market at Cornell provides fresh, healthy food to the campus - and is completely run by students. Cornell is a top performer in campus engagement for sustainability which includes food education. Cornell outperforms peers with Platinum sustainability rating
March 5, 2021
The 2020 AASHE Sustainable Campus Index provides a comparison of top-performing colleges and universities overall, and in seventeen campus sustainability impact areas. The index compares schools in areas like food, buildings & renewable energy, sustainability curriculum, public engagement, and diversity & affordability.
The comparisons are based on data submitted by institutions to the comprehensive Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS).
Drilling to determine potential for geothermal heating at Cornell University, New York thinkgeoenergy.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thinkgeoenergy.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Borehole to reveal potential of geothermal heating
Cornell is moving forward, and underground, with plans to drill an observatory borehole to explore the viability – and ensure the safety – of using geothermal energy to heat the Ithaca campus.
At a virtual community forum Jan. 19, a Cornell faculty and staff panel outlined the next steps for testing Earth Source Heat (ESH), the process by which water would be extracted from the Earth’s crust, its heat transferred to a separate supply of water flowing within Cornell’s heating distribution pipeline to heat most of the Ithaca campus buildings, and the original geothermal water returned to the subsurface.