The college rents a few small houses that are remote from campus. The college does not pay the utilities for those houses. Those houses are not included in this report. Other college-owned houses that are residences of administrators are included in this report. All 14 campus electricity accounts are included in this report, plus the electricity consumption for the house at the McCarley Reserve and the Pavilion at the Sneed Prairie Restoration.

This is the calculator recommended by the ACUPCC. Because it is widely used its use facilitates comparison with other campuses. An earlier version of this calculator was used for the College’s fiscal year 2008 inventory; using the up-to-date version of the same calculator facilitates comparison of Austin College emissions data from year to year. We used CACP version 6.6 for this inventory.

As per the protocol used for Austin College’s fiscal year 2008 inventory, default coefficients were used with the following exceptions. We changed the Radiation Forcing Index from 2.8 to 2 because various IPCC reports have used different values and our local expert, Dr. David Baker, does not think the relevant science warrants specifying this value to two significant figures. We corrected the CO2 emissions of study abroad flights by a factor of 0.64 to reflect their longer distances and thus better fuel efficiency than the shorter domestic flights that the calculator assumes. We used actual community data for commuting distances, vehicles used, and carpooling based on a detailed survey.

The inventory was completed by senior honors thesis student Katie Masucci, a member of the Austin College Class of 2011, under the direction of her thesis committee [Peter Schulze (chair)]. Peter Schulze is Director of the college's Center for Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology & Environmental Science. Masucci corresponded with other college faculty and staff members throughout her study, including: David Baker, Associate Professor of Physics, and John Jennings, Physical Plant Director. Masucci collected data for fiscal year 2010.

The following categories of emissions accounted for less than 1% of the total during fiscal year 2010: paper purchasing, fleet vehicles, personal mileage reimbursement, bus miles, wastewater, and fertilizer. For emission categories that were less than 1% of the college total during FY 2008 the present inventory used the upper-bound estimates from the FY 2008 inventory unless new data were readily available. New data were used for the following categories for FY 2010 (rather than the upper-bound estimates from the FY 2008 inventory): fleet vehicles, refrigerants and chemicals (which were found not de minimus during FY 2010), fertilizer, and personal mileage reimbursement. There was an error in the calculations of purchased paper in the FY 2008 inventory; the error is noted and corrected in the FY 2010 inventory document that has been uploaded to this website. The same amount of paper was purchased during FY 2008 and FY 2010. The resulting emissions from purchased paper were actually less than 1% during FY 2008 & FY 2010.

Commuter gasoline consumption calculations are based on a detailed, extensive survey of the campus population. We assume survey respondents were representative. Solid waste quantities are estimates based upon frequencies with which dumpsters were emptied and estimates of average available volume filled upon emptying; total solid waste carried away per year (tons) was calculated assuming that the bins were filled to 100% capacity when emptied. Faculty and staff directly financed outsourced air travel records had missing or ambiguous destination data for 12% of flights. The average mileage of the remaining 88% of such flights was calculated and we assumed the 12% of flights with unknown mileages were of the same average mileage. Fleet vehicle calculations are based upon actual mileages of each campus-owned vehicle with personal miles deducted accordingly.

Faculty and students paid for offsets when they purchased airline tickets. Offset fees were included in ticket prices. Offsets were purchased for all students and faculty who participated in January Term 2010 classes in the following locations: Tokyo, Quito, Johannesburg, San Jose (Costa Rica), Berlin, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

The REC vendor was FPL Energy, and the project was Snyder Wind Farm, LLC

We assumed no sequestration. We own some land on which ecosystems are recovering, but we have not attempted to estimate a quantity for carbon dioxide sequestration.

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