Sunlight heats liquid flowing through solar collectors, ultimately heating the school's domestic water.
Tomeka Weatherspoon
Reporter Tomeka Weatherspoon visits the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, Mo., where energy efficiency improvements are not only saving money, but becoming part of the school's curriculum.
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Flanagan is encouraging his students to learn about the computer system and their other green methods, such as their use of solar energy to create hot water, natural lighting in classrooms, planting and maintaining native plants and trees on the campus grounds, and recycling paper, plastics, and glass.
But more importantly he wants them to learn how these alternatives are better for the environment.
The school is posting their energy consumption levels every month to the bulletin boards in the boys’ living quarters—just to remind them to stay conscious of how much energy they’re using.
Tags: Consumption, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Green, Military,
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