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The intersection of sustainability and energy master planning: actionable carbon neutrality at Vassar college
- Vassar College (NY)
- Ecosystem (QC)
Energy master plan firms often spend months -- and sometimes years -- developing numerous technical solutions, simulations, and scenarios, without effectively engaging key stakeholders. As a result, it is hard …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
- Conference Presentations
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Green Reinvestment Fund
- Vassar College (NY)
The Green Reinvestment Fund (GRF) is an internal revolving loan fund for Vassar’s energy efficiency projects. Cost savings from projects funded through the GRF are repaid to the fund until …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2021
- Green Funds
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Sustainability Correlate
- Vassar College (NY)
Each 6 unit Correlate in Sustainability is designed in consultation with an advisor from the Environmental Studies Program and the ENST Director. The correlate includes (1) ENST 107 - Global …
- Posted Jan. 14, 2019
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Environmental Studies (BA)
- Vassar College (NY)
Environmental Studies is a multidisciplinary program that involves the natural and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities. It explores the relationships between people and the totality of …
- Posted Jan. 14, 2019
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Vassar Groveville Hydro Project
- Vassar College (NY)
Photo Credit: Karl Rabe/ Vassar College In Fall 2015, Vassar College signed a 20-year agreement with Gravity Renewables to establish a purchasing partnership with a small scale hydropower project on …
- Posted July 27, 2018
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927 kW Hydro Purchase from Groveville Hydro Facility
- Vassar College (NY)
In September 2015, Vassar College announced a 20-year agreement with the hydro power company Gravity Renewables to purchase power generated at the 927 kW Groveville Hydro Facility in Beacon, NY. …
- Posted Jan. 2, 2018
- Green Power Projects
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Internal Carbon Pricing: Designing and Implementing Campus Climate Policies with Vassar, Swarthmore, and Yale
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- Vassar College (NY)
- Yale University (CT)
In the absence of federal or international carbon markets, higher education has a momentous opportunity to model institutional capacity to put a price on carbon. The goal of this panel …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
- Conference Presentations
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Academic Jet-Setting in a Time of Climate Destabilization: Ecological Privilege and Professional Geographic Travel
- Vassar College (NY)
This article analyzes the interrelationship among resource consumption, sociospatial justice, and what is popularly known as global warming by interrogating the ecological footprint of professional geographers, especially in terms of …
- Posted May 9, 2016
- Publications
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Vassar College and Earth Month!
- Vassar College (NY)
The Environmental Cooperative was launched by Vassar College in 2015 to bring together regional environmental organizations, community groups, educators, the Vassar College community, and residents to increase our impact and …
- Posted May 9, 2016
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Internal Carbon Accounting at a Small Liberal Arts College
- Vassar College (NY)
As colleges and universities pursue greenhouse gas reductions, it has become clear that some
approach is necessary for putting a price on carbon emissions and communicating that cost to energy …
- Posted April 6, 2016
- Publications
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