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Clean Air-Cool Planet is the Northeast's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming.
 Read about our current partners’ leadership efforts: Profiles in progress: College of the Atlantic Eastern CT State University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Roger Williams University Saint Joseph College 
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National Wildlife Federation Issues a 2008 Report Card for From the NWF website: "This comprehensive study by National Wildlife Federation and Princeton Survey Research Associates International reviews trends and new developments in environmental performance and sustainability at 1,068 institutions. It recognizes colleges and universities for exemplary efforts and awards academic letter grades (A through D) for collective, national performance on environmental literacy, energy, water, transportation, landscaping, waste reduction and more." CA-CP was a co-sponsor of the report, and the Campus Carbon Calculator™ was recognized as the best tool to use for greenhouse gas inventories. Visit the NWF site for more information, including press releases, the executive summary and fact sheets. To download a copy of the full report (PDF, 3.6 megabytes), please click on the cover above. CA-CP also offers our partners the following:
What's New The Campus Team on the Road Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Raleigh, Washington D.C., and Chestertown, M.D. Clean Air-Cool Planet’s Jennifer Andrews and Anne Stephenson took the Campus Program on the road the past few weeks speaking at several conferences and meeting with key partners. Highlights included Jennifer briefing large audiences on the new projections and solutions capabilities of the Campus Carbon Calculator TM at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s annual conference. The conference was the Association’s best attended yet with over 1,700 registrants from over 400 colleges and universities in 48 states and 15 countries, making it the largest gathering focused on campus sustainability to date in North America. (Photo: Anne Stephenson, left, and Jenn Andrews) Other highlights from the trip included Anne speaking at the National Wildlife Federation’s student summit, Jennifer addressing the students from Independent Schools participating in the Green Cup Challenge, and Jenn and Anne training Honeywell engineers on the Campus Carbon Calculator. Clean Air-Cool Planet and Honeywell have jointly designed a carbon calculation workshop for colleges and universities. Now that the Campus Carbon Calculator is the tool of record for college and university greenhouse gas accounting, the challenge is not how to get the word out, but how to stay at home! The Campus Team’s new series of webinars is one way we’re cutting down on our travel carbon footprint. Jennifer and Anne will be sharing more about their travels, and attempts to minimize the carbon intensity of their travel, in this quarter’s issue of Cool Currents. Click to read more about the AASHE Conference, the Green Cup Challenge, NWF Student Programs, and our partnership with Honeywell. New Version 6 of Campus Carbon Calculator Released
The Campus Carbon Calculator™ is the leading tool for assessing campus greenhouse gas emissions. Currently in use at more than 1000 campuses across the country, the Calculator has already helped schools of all sizes and types, and in all regions to tackle global warming. The Calculator is the “tool of record” for most of the 600 signatories to the American Colleges and University Presidents Climate Commitment, a voluntary agreement to move toward campus “climate neutrality.” Read more... Campus Program Manager Jenn Andrews spoke at "dessert session" during 2nd Annual CONNECT Summit Jenn Andrews was the featured speaker at the "dessert session" during the CONNECT Sustainability Task Force summit on Sept. 23. The purpose of this regional summit was to have representatives from each CONNECT campus share their work on sustainability initiatives related to achieving the goals of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Read more... Renewable Energy Options Tree
Called The Renewable Technology Evaluation Process, the tool is a collaboration between the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ Leading by Example Program, and CA-CP. It is the core of a guide for campuses, The Renewable Technology Evaluation Guide, produced by CA-CP. Read the announcement.
Who's the Greenest of Them All? A New York Times feature article, "Green, Greener, Greenest" discusses the green revolution on college campuses, noting that the Princeton Review now includes a “green rating,” giving points for things like “environmentally preferable food,” power from renewable sources and energy-efficient buildings. The article quotes Jenn Andrews, manager of CA-CP's Campus Program. Read it here... Request for Proposals to Participate in a Project to Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is inviting colleges and universities to submit proposals to participate in a project to accelerate campus climate-change initiatives. Ten selected campuses will be visited by RMI and later will receive funding to collaborate in an RMI workshop with AASHE and interested funders. Campuses will be assisted in strengthening their climate-change initiatives related to campus operations. They will be eligible to receive modest seed funding for high-potential projects after they have completed the workshop. The project will ultimately result in a web-based RMI framework for operations-based campus-climate action. The RFP and proposal application will be available for download beginning August 5th at RMI's website. Proposals are due September 3rd. Colby College Named NESCAC Conference Champion by EPA for Green Power Purchases
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Chewonki Adopts Plan to Reduce Carbon Emissions The GHG inventory was completed by students of Chewonki's Maine Coast Semester with training and support from CA-CP's Campus Program. Chewonki is a founding member of the Maine Green Campus Consortium, and the only member not in higher education. They have long been a leader in campus efforts toward a sustainable future. Read the article.
Berkshire School is CA-CP's First Secondary-School Partner
The University at Buffalo Releases Climate Action Report Duquesne University Offers Help for Area Schools on Reducing Carbon Emissions
CA-CP Partners with the National Wildlife Federation From the archives Plymouth State University Features New Green Dorm - to Go With Their New Climate Initiative Back to School With the Campus Climate Challenge Middlebury Students Offer Campus Climate Neutrality Toolkit Green Cup Challenge at 15 Northeast Boarding Schools Wind Energy at Massachusetts Maritime Academy Harvard offers resource for creating student green teams and internships |
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PORTSMOUTH, NH – 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 has released an updated Campus Carbon Calculator™ to measure campus emissions and determine viable long-term strategies to reduce universities’ carbon footprints.
A new web-based tool released by Clean Air - Cool Planet will make deciding when, if, and how to use renewable energy on campus easier for campuses that want to take advantage of clean energy options. The “decision tree” takes users through a step-by-step process to identify which types of renewable energy could make sense on a campus – or in a community.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) named Colby College the 2007-08 Individual Conference Champion for purchasing more green power than any other school in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). EPA has been tracking green power purchasing among collegiate athletic conferences through its College & University Green Power Challenge, which concluded April 28 with 40 schools and 18 conferences participating nationwide. 
NWF’s Campus Ecology Program has been offering tools and resources for environmentally oriented campuses for nearly two decades, and recently began focusing exclusively on helping campuses lead society to a low-carbon future. CA-CP began working closely with the NWF team last year. CA-CP's campus program joined with NWF and the Colorado University-Boulder for a workshop at the National Council for Science and the Environment’s national conference in Washington, D.C. last month, and we are a co-sponsor of the second edition of NWF’s State of the Campus Environment: A National Report Card on Environmental Performance and Sustainability in Higher Education (McIntosh et al. 2001).