Comprehensive Data
- Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability at Macalester College – December 2012 Progress Report
- Sustainability and Cost-Saving Projects – September 2019
- Macalester College Sustainability Plan – Adopted in September 2009
- Macalester College Sustainability Plan, 1st revision – Adopted in December 2011
- 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. - 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.
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
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).
- Wind Turbine
Learn about Macaleter’s Wind Turbine
Wind Turbine Data 2003-2007
MacCARES Wind Turbine Projects
Case Study: The Urban Wind Turbine at Macalester College”
Food
Clean Plate Days Analysis – May 2012
Green Cleaning
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” “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
Sustainability Assessments
- Comparison of the STARS Pilot Project Analysis with Macalester College’s Results – June 2009
- Macalester Sustainability Data – Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) and Campus Sustainability Academic Framework (CSAF) – Spring 2009
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 Stream Analysis Report – Prepared by the Minnesota Waste Wise Foundation, April 23, 2014
- Composting at Macalester – By Laura Humes, Naomi Becker, and Emily Elkins, Spring 2014
- Summary of MN Wastewise Wastestream Analysis Report – February 2010
- Recycling Data and Graphs From Move Out, 2006-2009
- Macalester College Baseline Study and Zero Waste Recommendations – Eureka Recycling, Feb. 2007
Water
Bottled Water Campaign at Macalester College: A Case Study – By Clare Pillsbury, 2012