BEST stands for Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Center. BEST represents an ecological modernization approach to sustainability, with a strong emphasis on green technology and business investment, while other dimensions are not emphasized.
The Oregon Sustainability Center, to be housed on PSU campus, embodies the utopia of high-tech self-sufficiency unlike no other contemporary structure around, and may possibly be unique in the U.S. today. But at what cost? And, is this the utopia we want to pursue??