Many of you have expressed an interest in learning how your school compares to schools with similar characteristics, so we analyzed the greenhouse gas reports submitted by the first 172 institutions. [...]

Newest Planning Tool Makes It Easier to Map Carbon Projects
by Jennifer Andrews, Campus Program Manager, Clean Air-Cool Planet
Campus administrators, staff or students weighing which energy and carbon reduction projects will be most valuable now have a new, free tool to help them decide. Clean Air-Cool Planet’s updated Campus Carbon CalculatorTM helps to measure campus emissions [...]

An updated version of the ACUPCC Reporting System went live on October 27. A number of changes were made to improve the way data is collected and accessed. Please note the need for each school to keep the information in its Implementation Profile current, particularly in regards to the Implementation Liaison name, email, and phone. [...]

By Elizabeth Davey, Program Manager Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University
President Scott Cowen launched this year’s work on the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment with a personal e-mail to the Tulane University community.
We’re used to hearing from President Cowen on important issues that affect the university. Since 2001, he has [...]

The below guest blog is from Jim Simon, the Associate Environmental Educator in the University at Buffalo’s Green Office. As a signatory campus to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, the university held a first of its kind forum to get input from the campus community and brainstorm [...]

I helped record an interview between University of Kentucky student Tate White and Dr. Michael Oppenheimer yesterday to hear his thoughts on the role of higher education in addressing climate change. Dr. Oppenheimer is a leading scholar on global warming and has participated actively on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as one of the [...]

During the first round of greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting for the ACUPCC, we heard from quite a few signatories who were struggling to calculate their emissions from commuting and air travel. These sources are responsible for a significant portion of many institutions’ total emissions but they are also among the most difficult emissions sources on [...]

Part 1 of this post focused on estimating emissions from commuting. This post focuses on emissions from air travel.
In order to calculate emissions from air travel, you will need to determine the total number of passenger air miles paid for by or through your institution.  The challenge is that institutions generally don’t track this data [...]

As most of you are aware, September 15 marked an important deadline for the ACUPCC – it was the due date for charter signatories to report their greenhouse gas inventories for the most recent year available (previous years were submitted on a voluntary basis). Given that the website housing the new reporting tool was launched [...]

As the new CPM for AASHE, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and begin my communications with the Implementation Liaisons. It’s been an exciting first week at AASHE, especially with the reporting deadline for charter signatories less than two weeks away, and I’m learning a lot from the questions you are [...]