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Letter to the editor: Quaker Valley should build zero-energy high school
The recent release of the new report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change depicts a dire future for humanity. Human use of fossil fuels is the cause.
We in the Quaker Valley Community are the beneficiaries of use of fossil fuels. It makes possible our heating and cooling, our transportation, our communication, our ample food supply, our sanitation, our health care, our abundant goods and services. We are thus obliged to take actions that help mitigate these dire predictions.
Few actions that our community could take would be more effective and symbolic than constructing the new high school as a zero-energy building, one that uses no fossil fuels.
It would say that our community will take serious steps to combat climate change. The architect/engineer team has the capability and experience to do such a design, and they need the direction to do so. Importantly, a zero-energy high school will show our children and grandchildren that we care about their future.
The Quaker Valley School District must do no less.
John K. Holton
Sewickley
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