Exploring Other World Computing's super-green headquarters
- Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:50
Woodstock, Illinois is possibly most famous for its starring role in the 1988 film Groundhog Day. The small burg, roughly an hour northwest of Chicago, stood in for the small Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney throughout the film. The courthouse square was used to shoot the famous meeting between Bill Murray's character, Phil Connors, and insurance salesman Ned Ryerson, wherein Connors steps off the sidewalk into a "doozy" of a mud puddle.
Woodstock also happens to be home to one of the greenest buildings in the entire country. That building is the current corporate headquarters for Mac upgrade and accessory makers Other World Computing. Ars recently had an opportunity to take a tour of the facility and look into some of its impressive green "features." We also spoke with CEO Larry O'Connor about how the drive to build such an environmentally friendly building is the same drive that pushed him to build OWC's Mac-friendly business in the first place, quite literally with his bare hands.
