College-owned rental homes beyond the Campus proper are not included as they are private residences and do not represent the operational responsibility of Berea College.

CA-CP is the recommended tool for the ACUPCC implementation and was utilized in previous GHG calculations.

CA-CP Campus Carbon Calculator's default emissions coefficients for eGRID subregions (Kentucky falls under SRTV subregion and SERC Tennessee Valley region post-2006) were used in the analyses.

In 2007, Dr. Larry Shinn signed the ACUPCC commitment and designated individuals to serve as the leadership team for coordinating the necessary data collection and implementing the GHG inventory. The announcement alerted the campus community that the process would require the participation of various departments and programs and that the leadership team would immediately be contacting people to discuss the specific information to be gathered and their respective roles in providing accurate and timely responses to requests.

The data collection process for calculating the 2008-09 and 2009-10 GHG inventories followed the same process used in 2007-08. The organizational boundary was limited primarily to the campus proper as well as protected forest holdings bordering the town and county. About one half of the required information was directly available from the Facilities Management Department on campus. This included physical benchmark data, utilities, refrigerants, fleet vehicle fuel usage and solid waste. Other communication and collaboration with all additional campus departments/programs to collect other types of information was coodinated through the Business Office. This included items such as population data, agricultural data, employee data, travel reports, study abroad, paper usage and mitigation data such as forest sequestration and composting. Though a series of email requests and one-on-one meetings as necessary, the team helped identify the correct sources of information and clarify the type and scoper of the request. Student employees assisted with the data collection whenever possible. After the data was collected and compiled, it was entered into the CA-CP calculator for inclusion in this report.

Campus collaborators participated willingly and as expeditiously as possible in the process of data collection and interpretation. WHile some information was relatively simple to gather, other types of documentation can be improved and refined to provide more accurate and organized information for future inventories. In some cases, improved data collection methods were established using lessons learned from previous GHG calculations. A follow-up meeting with the President and other key administrators will take place to address the challenges of the process and to review the findings and a summary report on the inventory will be provided to the campus community.

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Several small campus programs own and operate vehicles independently of the Motor Pool and Facilities Management fleets. The usage data for these vehicles (<10) is not included in this report but will be identified for inclusion in the future.

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The Berea College Forester worked in collaboration with the MACED Forest Opportunities Initiative to calculate the College's MTeCO2 offset for its 8,000+ acre forst holdings. The multiplier used was 3.3 tons/acre/year as listed in the Chicago Climate Exchange for Kentucky. Thus, the total offset of -27,192 MTecCO2 was calculated from the sum of the following:

Newly Forested: 70 acres x 3.3 = 231 tons/acre/year

Existing: 8,170 acres x 3.3 = 26,961 tons/acre/year

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While the entire GHG inventory (process and compiled results) was not formally audited, specific pieces were reviewed by multiple individuals or departments. For example, some components of the inventory were provided, confirmed and/or reviewed by third-party suppliers (ie: utilities, solid waste totals, refrigerants, fleet fuel). Other components were reviewed in-house by campus colleagues with relevant expertise (ie: paper purchases, compost, benchmark data).