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Campus Resource Monitoring System featured in Sierra Magazine
October 22, 2007
San Francisco, CA - Oberlin College is named number one among America's Top 10 "Coolest" Schools by Sierra Magazine for its range of environmental accomplishments on campus, including a Campus Resource Monitoring System.
Sierra gives six reasons for Oberlin receiving the top ranking, among them "a real-time monitoring system [that] tracks 17 dorms and displays how much juice all those laptops, blenders, and iPod chargers are burning at any moment."
"Oberlin is thrilled to be recognized by Sierra as America's Coolest School," says Nathan Engstrom, coordinator of the Office of Sustainability. "Reducing our carbon footprint of 50,000 tons per year down to zero won't be easy, but if anyone can become carbon neutral, Oberlin can."
The Top 10 list is the centerpiece of a five-page spread titled "Go Big Green," which is the first time to Sierra has done a survey of America's greenest campuses.
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Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
