Sustainability Office
Kagin Commons
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-696-8138
Comments & questions to:
sustainability@macalester.edu

Campus sustainability data
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Comprehensive Data

• Student Attitudes Towards Sustainability at Macalester College - May 2013.  This project was a part of Prof. Erik Larson's Science and Social Inquiry class.  The project group members were Miranda Adams, Jacob Kunkel, Gabby Queenan, Rosie Wiggins, and Sarah Coppock-Pector.
• Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability at Macalester College - December 2012 Progress Report
• Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Ranking System Report
• Macalester College Sustainability Plan - Adopted in September 2009
• Macalester College Sustainability Update - November 2010
• Macalester College Sustainability Plan, 1st revision - Adopted in December 2011
• Sustainability Efforts and Policy Goals at Macalester College by Madeline Emanuel, Michelle Thomas, Lloyd Vogel and David Espinoza, 2009 Macalester College Science and Social Inquiry class
• An outline of Macalester Colleges progress towards Environmental Sustainability - 1990 to 2008 by Izaac Holt '08, Rebecca Orrick '08, Mariah Smith '08, and Andrew Ehrmann '08.

Economic Data

• Sustainability and Cost-Saving Projects - October 2011

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Beyond Efficiency and Offsets:  Reinvisioning Macalester's Climate Action Plan - Prepared by the 2012 Environmental Studies Senior Seminar and Prof. Louisa Bradtmiller
• Inventories:
• 2010-2011
  • Campus Carbon Calculator Spreadsheet (Excel file)
• 2009-2010
  • Inventory Summary
  • Campus Carbon Calculabor Spreadsheet (Excel file)
• 2008-2009
  • Inventory
  • Campus Carbon Calculator Spreadsheet (Excel file)
  • Charts and Figures (Excel file)
• 2007-2008
  • Inventory
  • Campus Carbon Calculator Spreadsheet (Excel file)
• 1990-2006
  • Inventory - Prepared by the 2008 Environmental Studies Senior Seminar, Professor Chris Wells and Suzanne Savanick Hansen
• Macalester College Institutional Action Plan for Carbon Neutrality - Adapted by Justin Lee from the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar 2009 Report.  This report recommends actions for Macalester to take for climate neutrality.  Some of the recommendations were included in the Sustainability Plan.

Energy

• PV Fesibility Study - June 19, 2012
• Macalester College recommissioned all of the main campus buildings in 2010. See the recommissioning report's recommendations:
• Recommissioning Study Report
• Appendix A1 - ECO  Recommendations Summary
• Appendix A2 - ECO Energy Summary
• Appendix B - ECOs
• Appendix E - Photos
• Appendix E - Maintenance & Operations Issues
• Energy Efficiency:  Energy Use of the EcoHouse by Ben Francis, January 2011
• Minnesota Campus Energy Challenge 2009:  Analysis and Recommendations by Elizabeth Foster, Arielle Miwa Oseki Robbins and Dominika Seblova
• Macalester's Energy Goals - National Wildlife Federation Report - Spring 2003
• Creating a Sustainability Revolving Loan Fund:  A Guide for Students by Asa Diebolt '09 and Timothy Den Herder-Thomas '09 - Published by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education in 2007 (.PDF 400KB).

Food

• Clean Plate Days Analysis - May 2012

Green Cleaning

• Vendor letter
• Green cleaning procedures

Transportation

• Macalester Commuter Options Plan - June 2010
• Summary of 2010 Faculty/Staff Commuter Survey
• "An Institutional Carbon Footprint:  The Assessment of Transportation-Related eCO2 Emissions and Applied Study of Mitigation Policies for Macalester College" - Laura Cullenward, Kim DeLanghe and Mark Stonehill, Spring 2009

Waste and Recycling

• Waste and Recycling Data (Excel file)
• 2013 Recyclemania Competition
• Summary of MN Wastewise Wastestream Analysis Report - February 2010
• Waste, Composting, Recycling, and Sustainable Off-Campus Living Reports - Compiled by the Spring 2010 Enviromental Studies Senior Seminar Class
• Recycling Data and Graphs From Move Out, 2006-2009
• Macalester College Tonnage (Pounds) Summary 2007-2008 - Eureka Recycling
• Macalester College Tonnage (Pounds) Summary 2006-2007 - Eureka Recycling
• Macalester College Baseline Tonnage (Pounds) Summary 2006 - Eureka Recycling
• Macalester College Baseline Study and Zero Waste Recommendations - Eureka Recycling, Feb. 2007
• Macalester Discards
• Macalester Recycling Program

Water

• Bottled Water Campaign at Macalester College:  A Case Study - By Clare Pillsbury, 2012

Wind Turbine

• Learn about Macaleter's Wind Turbine
• Wind Turbine Data

Weather

• Weather Data and Solar Radiation Data from Olin-Rice and Ordway Field Station

Institute for Global Citizenship/Markim Hall

• Institute for Global Citizenship/Markim Hall Green Touchscreen Data
• Institute for Global Citizenship/Markim Hall - "Information about Markim Hall's LEED Platinum certification"
  • LEED Points Documentation
• Energy and Atmosphere Category Summary
• Indoor Environmental Quality Category Summary
• Innovation in Design Category Summary
• Materials and Resources Category Summary
• Sustainable Sites Category Summary
• Water Efficiency Category Summary
• Appendix

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