The first step in satisfying the ACUPCC President’s Climate Commitment is completing an inventory of the University’s greenhouse gas emissions. This will determine Villanova’s “carbon footprint” and serve as the basis for developing a Plan for offsetting these emissions in the years ahead.

The Inventory is an analysis of the natural resources consumed by the operation and maintenance of our campus facilities and grounds and the business-related travel habits of our students, faculty, and staff.

The President’s Climate Committee core team has spent the past year on a number of inventory related tasks:
  Retrieving data related to energy and water consumption within campus buildings.
  Developing a survey to capture the energy consumed through University related travel
  Summarizing the results of our campus-wide recycling efforts.
  Evaluating the increase of sustainability related coursework into the academic curriculum.
  Inputting the GGE data into the Cool Planet calculator.

The core team’s goal is to complete the Inventory is complete and determine the University’s carbon footprint by end of September, 2008. Once this first step is complete, the team will move onto the next step in the Commitment, which is the development of a plan to offset these emissions and make Villanova a “climate-neutral” campus.

For additional info, please click the following links:
  ACUPCC 2-Month Report
  GGE Inventory (coming soon)
  Travel Survey Results (coming soon)