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August 13, 2008, 10:05 AM ET
New Guide Can Help Colleges Plan to Lower Carbon Emissions
Does your institution have a plan for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions? If not, you may want to download a new Guide to Climate Action Planning. The free, 46-page document is the result of a collaboration between the National Wildlife Foundation’s Campus Ecology project and the Society for College and University Planning.
The guide says that even though more than 550 colleges and universities are working toward emission-reduction targets, “actual greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise on most campuses.” Why? “Gains from energy efficiency and conservation have been outpaced by growth in student populations and new construction,” the guide says.
A comprehensive planning process that looks behind campus borders can help, says the guide, which looks not only at campus-infrastructure challenges but also at behavior changes, green-power purchases, and carbon offsets. The authors are David J. Eagan, a writer for the Campus Ecology project; Terry Calhoun, SCUP’s director of sustainability initiatives; and Praween Dayananda and Justin Schott, both field coordinators for the Campus Ecology project.
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