The University's plan to make Princeton a sustainable campus is very exciting. It ties in beautifully not only with current concerns about global warming and the general trend toward sustainability, but also with the "Aspire" capital campaign and the new ...(back to the article)
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Good suggestions. The heating in the older graduate housing units is also appallingly wasteful. During my winters in Old Lawrence and the Old Grad College, the buildings were so overheated that my roommates and I had to leave the windows open 24 hours a day, even on the very coldest days. It was upsetting to waste energy that way but with no thermostat and no way to turn the heat down, the open windows were the only way to avoid turning the room into a sauna.
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all joking aside... the self-flushing toilets are horrible. they often flush during use and then you just have to flush again when you're finished--very uncomfortable, very wasteful, very annoying.
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ditto--I can't believe that anyone would think it a good idea to create something both so aggravating and so wasteful.
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Self-flushing toilets are truly one of the most pressing issues on campus today. Congrats, Martha, for another stellar column!
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