The geographic limits of the study are the Ball State University facilities in Muncie and the university’s various field station farms and their contained woodlands and grasslands.

Emissions from Ball State’s Indianapolis Indy Center are not included. This facility was omitted because Ball State leases space in an Indianapolis building owned and controlled by others and has no control over the building's operation and consequently, its greenhouse gas emissions.

UPDATE:
We now can document that a portion of our originally-reported Scope 1 Greenhouse Gas Emissions which resulted from the burning of fossil fuels, in fact, was assignable to the regional hospital to which we have been providing steam under a standing purchase agreement. As noted in the table below, we now must modify our reported (2008) Scope 1 emissions to reflect this parsing of assignable Greenhouse Gas Emissions as “outside the boundary” of our campus emissions.

UPDATE:
In the five years since filing our initial (August 2008) Greenhouse Gases Emissions Report we have been able to build a larger data-set on the history of campus-wide energy use and have loaded that data-set into the latest version of the Clean Air-Cool Planet Greenhouse Gas Assessment Tool (v.6.851).

UPDATE:
CACP v. 6.851

UPDATE:
We are reporting using metered data for our 2010-11 FY.

First-hand interviews, e-mail correspondence and phone conversations were used to update the content of the original GHG Report and to load the data set for tis reporting year

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UPDATE:
The data for student, faculty and staff commuting are either only partially available or were completely unavailable; as a result we have not listed a MT CO2e value for this category.

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NOTIFCATION:
5/15/13

These values are split across FY Reportintg times.


CORRECTION NOTIFCATION:
3/5/13

In the originally-submitted 2011 reporting there were three errors:
-- a labeling error in the quantity shown; these should be in MWh not kWh
-- the quantity purchased was actually 2,072 MWh
-- the percentage impact was thereby incorrect

So, in sum, we purchased:

1,072 Green-e Credits (MWh) Certified National Voluntary Wind REC Generated from NextERA Energy Rerouces Wind Portfolio (Park Hall)

1,000 Green-e Credits (MWh) Energy Certifiable Renewable Energy Credits from NextERA Energy Power Marketing (Letterman Building)

Total: 2,072 MWh
(2,072,000 kWh x 0.77655/1000 kWh = 1,609 metric tons of CO2
1,609/86487 MT = .0186 = 1.86%

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UPDATE:
5/15/13

We are providing herewith some annotations forour 2011 FY Greenhouse Gas Report for the sake of transparency and clarification. During the 2013 fiscal year, we have been able to gather a full 10-year history of energy consumption for the campus and so have rebuilt the greenhouse gas data-set using the latest version of the Clear Air-Cool Planet calculation tool. (v. 6.851)

In the process of developing these metrics, we have identified a portion of our previously reported Greenhouse Gas emissions as being specifically attributable to the regional hospital to which we have been selling (coal-fired and/or gas-fired) steam. Thus the boundary of the campus environmental impact specifically must parse-out the portion of Greenhouse Gas load attributable to that hospital.

Thus we have adjusted the GHG emissions Scope 1 accordingly, and with the ten-year data-set are able to show more clearly the track of environmental load from the campus during the last decade. Moreover, this reporting begins to reflect the initial impact of our move away from Scope 1coal-fired combustion as we switch to the district-scale geothermal (ground source heat pump) heating and cooling. As of this date, fully 47 buildings are online for cooling and some 20 are online for heating.