NATIONAL BENCHMARKS AND INITIATIVES
ACUP Climate Commitment
Note the Implementation Guide and resources
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability
in Higher Education (AASHE)
Clean Air - Cool Planet (guide
for reducing carbon emissions)
Society for College and
University Planning (SCUP) Sustainability Resource Page
U.S. Department of Energy - Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy
SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION
USM Projects
USM Green Building Nominations and Awards
US Green Buildings Council
Green Buildings Rating System
USEFUL REFERENCES
53 Sources for Climate Change news (GW University Resource)
"How To"
article on green buildings (existing) from Buildings magazine
Article on
energy alternatives from Buildings Magazine
BUYING GREEN
The Green Electronics
Council - The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)
California Integrated Waste Management Board
Buy Recycled (from the California Integrated Waste
Management Board)
Green Guard Institute
OTHER (NON-MARYLAND) STATE/HIGHER ED REFERENCES
See other client states of Climate
Strategies
University
(System) of California policy on sustainability
LA Community College
District = Largest public sector "green" building effort
UC Center for Sustainable Suburban Development
The Chronicle's Sustainability page
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
Duke University
University of Florida
University of California, Berkeley
Cornell University
Northern Arizona University (includes a LEED "Platinum" building)
Michigan
State University
Harvard's Green Campus Initiative
(includes good audit info)
University of New Hampshire's
Sustainability Office and GHG Inventory (UNH became a model for the ACUPCC
and others)
Purdue Global's list of Sustainability Resources
UC Berkeley "Reducing Your Digital Carbon Footprint in the Wake of COVID-19"
TECHNICAL REFERENCES AND RESEARCH LINKS
Carbon
Audit Calculator from Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
Global Warming from National Geographic
NOAA's
global warming FAQs
Pew Center for Climate Change
EPA's Global Warming site
Kyoto Protocol (from The United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change)
Please send your ideas and comments regarding campus
sustainability to green@usmd.edu
