The Ecology School’s new campus in Saco, Maine, is expected to produce more energy than it uses each year.
An environmental education center in southern Maine has broken ground on what it promises will be the most sustainable new construction in the Northeast. The goal, planners said, is to create a project that can help demonstrate the opportunities for green building in a state that has historically lagged the rest of New England in adopting programs for energy efficiency and renewable power.
“It’s a prototype, to model what the future looks like,” said Drew Dumsch, founder of the Ecology School in Saco.