The Golden Jersey Inn building is 10 years old this year. Even though it is a large, open-air kind of building, it was designed to minimize energy usage. We heat and air condition using efficient heat pumps. Most important is the insulating characteristics of the building itself. We use half the electricity to operate this building (which is about 15% cubic feet larger) compared to The Dairy Store - which the first part was built 40 years ago. We were able to use green building technology and science to create a much more efficient bulding at The Golden Jersey Inn.