Plans
are underway to turn NYC's Roosevelt island into an enormous super-green net-zero
energy campus.
Earlier this year Cornell and Technion, Israel Institute for Technology
won the privilege of developinga
new tech campusand incubator on Roosevelt Island in New York City,
reports the online Green Prophet. Architects Skidmore, Owings, Merril won the design
competition and now plans are underway to turn the entire island into an
enormous super-green net-zero energy campus complete with four acres of geothermal wells and a solar array that is three times bigger than
the current largest system in NYC.