“Environmentally Sustainable” California Academy of Sciences Leaves Its Lights On at Night
It’s not even finished yet but our new California Academy of Sciences building, “on track” to becoming LEED-certified, has some reason to leave its lights blazing.
Perhaps a team of electricians are testing circuits at night? Or maybe the CAS has money to burn what with admission prices going up something like 150%?
Compare this glare with the old-school, non-LEED certified lamp post on the right that would look familiar to the people that acted in Jitney Elopement, a short movie made by Charlie Chaplin in Golden Gate Park almost a hundred years ago.
Hello lamp post/ Whatcha knowing?/ I’ve come to watch your neighbor glowing.
You see, the street light is turned off, as it wasn’t really needed at that time of day.
LEED certification: It’s in the way that you use it.
Or maybe they were just testing their expensive solar photovoltaic system - it still seems like a waste of juice regardless.
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