High Performing Buildings - Spring 2011 - (Page 26)
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S t u d y
Laboratory
By AnA SerrA
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HAwAII’s LIvIng
Located near the Mauna Loa Observatory, which has been monitoring atmospheric change since the 1950s, the Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s Energy Lab fits into a Hawaiian tradition of climate change awareness and resource conservation. In fact, it was the first carbon dioxide readings at the Mauna Loa Observatory that brought the concept of global warming to the world’s attention in the 1960s.
Matthew Millman
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