Advancing Higher Education: ACUPCC Institutions Lead Sustainability and Climate Progress

The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is celebrating five years of higher education’s leadership on the critical issues of our time, with new data from signatories’ public reports showing unprecedented success and innovation in renewable energy, curriculum, energy efficiency, green building, and financial savings. 202 institutions have submitted Progress Reports on their [...]

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CA-CP Collaborates to Develop a Web-based Calculator

By Claire Roby, Carbon Accounting Manager, Clean Air-Cool Planet (This article appears in the November, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer) At the recent 2011 AASHE conference, Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) unveiled the next phase of the Campus Carbon Calculator™ evolution: we’ve partnered with Sightlines, LLC, to redevelop the Campus Carbon Calculator as a dynamic, web-based [...]

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Measuring Sustainability Performance at the University of Maryland

By Sally DeLeon, Sustainability Measurement Coordinator, UMD College Park (This article appears in the November, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer) To lead in the transformation to a sustainable society, institutions of higher education need to clearly articulate their own sustainability objectives and show progress toward meeting their goals. A set of regularly updated sustainability metrics [...]

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STARS & the ACUPCC: A History of Collaboration

By Meghan Fay Zahniser, STARS Program Manager, AASHE (This article appears in the November, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer) Five years ago AASHE was called upon to develop a consistent way to measure campus sustainability efforts, and the idea for STARS – the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System – was born. In January 2010, [...]

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