Woods Hole Research Center Ordway Campus

Photo Source: Cape Cod Center for Sustainability The Woods Hole Research Center’s state-of-the-art building integrates green design practices, high-efficiency construction, and advanced mechanical systems with solar and geothermal energy technologies. Once the planned installation of a wind turbine is completed, the building will operate without requiring fossil fuels, and it will infuse the local distribution grid with green electrons. It already provides scientists and other staff with a comfortable working environment — and it is improving both the regional and global environment.

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For more information on this state-of-the-art green building, visit the website of the Woods Hole Research Center. For real-time data showing how this high-performance building captures, uses, stores, cycles, and exhausts energy, click here.

Facts on Energy Efficiency & Independence
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The WHRC’s green building is not the only indicator of energy efficiency and independence in local communities. Data, information, art, and photos are sought that address topics such as the ones listed below:

Facts on Energy Efficiency & Independence

• Local history
• Green homes and buildings
• Efficiency technologies and initiatives
• Cogeneration
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Visions of Energy Efficiency & Independence

• Productive (rather than consumptive) buildings
• Off-grid systems
• Unplugged communities
• Green electron export region
• Capital retention
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Dirty Roof

Conventional asphalt shingles are
the cheapest roofing material around but, as is usually the case, there is a cost: They are manufactured using petroleum by-products and, once they reach the end of their useful life, they must be landfilled as construction debris or “downcycled” as road materials or in other low-value uses. Credit: Houston Advanced Research Center

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Green Roof

Thatching represents an attractive and sustainable roofing solution. This thatched roof, gracing a barn in Yarmouthport, transforms an invasive wetland plant (Phragmites sp.) into a useful, biodegradable shelter.

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