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The perfect dorm
College residence halls trending toward green ... and not-so-green |
Sarah van Schagen |
30 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'm excited about this new trend toward green dorm design and decor, such as the Green Campus Program in California wherein new students can tour a dorm room pimped out with, for example, "hemp towels, organic cotton sheets, a reusable elephant grass shopping basket, and bed frames made of recycled train tracks." But I'm bummed that it's basically negated by another "trend" in college dorms these days: deluxe consumerism of the not-so-eco kin ... |
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| Topics: education, green living, placemaking, shopping (all these topics) |
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