ACUPCC Reporting System

Climate Action Plan for Adams State College

Submitted on January 12, 2012; last updated on January 19, 2012

Climate Action Plan Details

Climate Action Plan Adams State College - Climate Action Plan
July 1, 2011
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Emissions Targets

Climate Neutrality Target
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If you have any qualifying statements with regard to the climate neutrality target date, please include them here, and/or if you have chosen "TBD" and not specified a neutrality date, please enter the reason and explain the process for establishing a target date in the future.

The ASC Climate Commitment Council will be able to formalize our target date once the energy improvements being implemented by the campuses construction and the Technical Energy Audit components have been completed. The formal establishment of footprint reduction items listed in the current CAP document will also impact our target date.

Pinning down an exact neutrality date is difficult as exact energy reduction benefits of the energy audit, renovations, and solar panels installation that are in progress.

Interim Milestone Emission-Reduction Target Target Date Baseline
18% reduction in Total Scope 2 Emissions by 2012 relative to baseline emissions in 2008
6% reduction in Total Scope 1 Emissions by 2012 relative to baseline emissions in 2008
Nonstandard Emissions Targets
Please enter below any targets that do not fit into the above format.

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Narratives

Please describe your institution's greenhouse gas mitigation strategies.

Mitigation of greenhouse gases will be realized through the College's efforts such as renovations that include energy efficiency improvements to some of our older residence halls as well as academics buildings. Based on the Technical Energy Audit information we have moved forward with renovations to residence halls. The College has also seen a complete redo of McDaniel Hall and the Music building. These improvements have upgraded the buildings LEED qualification levels. Coronado Hall and Residences at the Rex, qualify for Silver LEED level. Girault Hall received a Gold rating and Platinum for McDaniel Hall, our Education and Social Studies building. Not only will these improvements help reduce our carbon emissions significantly through the reduced electrical and heating needs.

Further footprint reductions will be realized from our solar panel and proposed geothermal projects. We have just completed an installation of solar panels on the roof of our Athletic building, Plachy Hall, which will provide 10% of the heating needs for that building. A geothermal grant application was submitted to the Department of Energy in 2008. When in place it would be the largest geothermal heat pump systems of its kind in the U.S., providing nearly 100% of the College’s heating needs.

Please describe your institution's plans to make sustainability a part of the curriculum for all students.

TBD

Please describe your institution's plans to expand research efforts toward the achievement of climate neutrality.

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Please describe your institution's plans to expand community outreach efforts toward the achievement of climate neutrality.

ASC EARTH and ASC Community Partnerships have already established this collaboration and continue to pursue new and innovative programs. See corresponding chapters in the CAP.