First Group of Students Live and Study at Choate’s New Environmental Center

A group of students at Choate Rosemary Hall are not just studying energy efficiency and sustainability—they’re living it. These 14 young people are the first students to live and learn in the preparatory school’s new Kohler Environmental Center. The $20 million, 32-000-square-foot facility is the first secondary-school teaching, research and residential environmental center in the nation, according to school officials.

Chosen from among 60 students who applied to live there, the inhabitants are careful not to use more energy than the facility produces through its solar panels and other green measures. Students compost their food scraps and work in a greenhouse heated with recycled cooking oil.

Click here to see photos and read more about what life is like in the new state-of-the-art center, as reported in the New Haven Register.