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Overview
For institutions that have signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, the deadlines for having a clear plan of action for achieving carbon neutrality can seem overwhelming. Schools that haven't signed the pledge but are looking at how to reduce their carbon footprint will need some help getting started. How will you conduct your carbon inventory? What are your carbon mitigation options? How long will it take to achieve carbon neutrality? Is it even possible?
Join us for the Getting Started on a Carbon Action Plan webcast and learn from Dave Newport, director of the Environmental Center at University of Colorado at Boulder. Dave will offer you an overview of the steps needed to create a realistic plan for carbon action, preparing you to:
- Easily create an accurate carbon inventory
- Evaluate carbon mitigation options
- Quickly project future emissions
- Determine a carbon action plan and goals quantitatively
Who Should Attend
Facilities directors, sustainability coordinators and managers, environmental center directors and managers, and others who have been tasked with carbon action will leave the web conference with some simple tools for carbon inventory and predictive modeling, and with tips for adapting these tools to the more specific needs of your campus.
Program Agenda
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
| 2:00-3:30 p.m. EST |
- Step one: Carbon inventory made easy
- A one page inventory tool
- Secrets of data mining
- Limit your scope(s)
- Benchmarks and context
- Step two: Evaluating your carbon mitigation options
- Ripening your low hanging fruit
- Options that create buy in
- Co-benefits lead to cooperation
- Step three: Likely future trends and your goals
- A simple tool for projecting future emissions
- How to account for likely outside influences
- Identifying goals and phasing
- Continuous improvements
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Instructor
Dave Newport, Director, Environmental Center, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dave oversees more than 100 staff who work with one of higher education's original recycling programs, alternative transportation programs, energy and climate conservation programs, sustainable food, environmental justice, environmentally preferred purchasing, and numerous student-led operational, educational, and research initiatives. Dave chairs CU Boulder's Carbon Neutrality Working Group and is a faculty associate in the environmental studies department where he teaches a course in carbon neutrality planning for higher education. Dave is also a co-creator and member of the Steering Committee of AASHE's new STARS sustainability ratings system for higher education.
Dave's 30-plus years in the environmental industry includes his immediate past position of sustainability director at the University of Florida, project manager of Florida's first climate neutrality assessment project, and co-author of the first comprehensive sustainability assessment of a college campus performed to international business standards.
Sponsors
Academic Impressions appreciates the support we receive from our sponsors. This web conference is sponsored by AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
www.aashe.org
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Questions
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