Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.08
Liaison Jamey Pavey
Submission Date Feb. 26, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Earlham College
OP-1: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.04 / 10.00 Lisa Butch
Assistant Director of Sustainability
Center for Integrated Learning
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Does the institution's GHG emissions inventory include all Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions?:
Yes

Does the institution's GHG emissions inventory include all Scope 3 GHG emissions from any of the following categories?:
Yes or No
Business travel No
Commuting No
Purchased goods and services No
Capital goods No
Fuel- and energy-related activities not included in Scope 1 or Scope 2 Yes
Waste generated in operations Yes

Does the institution's GHG emissions inventory include Scope 3 emissions from other categories?:
Yes

A brief description of the methodology and/or tool used to complete the GHG emissions inventory:

From 2009 to 2013, we used the Clean Air-Cool Planet’s Campus Carbon Calculator.
From 2013, we started using the Carbon Management and Analysis Platform (CarbonMAP). For 2015-16 we used CarbonMAP online at campuscarbon.com


Has the GHG emissions inventory been validated internally by personnel who are independent of the GHG accounting and reporting process and/or verified by an independent, external third party?:
No

A brief description of the internal and/or external verification process:
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Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions::
Performance Year Baseline Year
Scope 1 GHG emissions from stationary combustion 4,571.78 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent 4,245.10 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Scope 1 GHG emissions from other sources 35.84 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent 90.47 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Scope 2 GHG emissions from purchased electricity 9,563.61 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent 8,691.88 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Scope 2 GHG emissions from other sources 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Figures needed to determine total carbon offsets::
Performance Year Baseline Year
Institution-catalyzed carbon offsets generated 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Carbon sequestration due to land that the institution manages specifically for sequestration 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Carbon storage from on-site composting 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Third-party verified carbon offsets purchased 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

A brief description of the institution-catalyzed carbon offsets program:

NA


A brief description of the carbon sequestration program and reporting protocol used:

Earlham College owns many young and old woods, which contributes to the sequestration of carbon dioxide emitted by the campus. We estimated the carbon dioxide sequestration by firstly obtaining the total acres from an online software, Wayne County Data Sever. Then we adapted a method of estimating the carbon dioxide sequestration from a scientific paper.


A brief description of the composting and carbon storage program:

NA


A brief description of the purchased carbon offsets, including third party verifier(s) and contract timeframes:

N/A


Figures needed to determine “Weighted Campus Users”::
Performance Year Baseline Year
Number of residential students 845 1,258
Number of residential employees 4 0
Number of in-patient hospital beds 0 0
Full-time equivalent enrollment 982 1,258
Full-time equivalent of employees 371 330
Full-time equivalent of distance education students 0 0

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2015 Dec. 31, 2015
Baseline Year July 1, 2007 June 30, 2008

A brief description of when and why the GHG emissions baseline was adopted:

The baseline year we selected is the first year that we had all the data entries.


Gross floor area of building space, performance year:
1,114,807 Square feet

Floor area of energy intensive building space, performance year:
Floor Area
Laboratory space 51,380 Square feet
Healthcare space 2,000 Square feet
Other energy intensive space 58,000 Square feet

Scope 3 GHG emissions, performance year::
Emissions
Business travel 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Commuting 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Purchased goods and services 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Capital goods 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Fuel- and energy-related activities not included in Scope 1 or Scope 2 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Waste generated in operations 75.65 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Other categories (please specify below) 533.87 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

A brief description of the sources included in Scope 3 GHG emissions from "other categories":

Study abroad air travel


A copy of the most recent GHG emissions inventory:
The website URL where the GHG emissions inventory is posted:
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A brief description of the institution’s GHG emissions reduction initiatives, including efforts made during the previous three years:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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