APPA Guide to Carbon Reduction
The Educational Facilities Professional’s
Practical Guide to Reducing the Campus Carbon Footprint
AEI partnered with APPA, the association providing leadership in educational facilities, to develop and publish a guide to help higher education institutions accomplish the carbon footprint reduction goals represented by the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, and identify best practices for incorporating sustainability concepts into their operating cultures.
The guide provides a tool to support the role of facilities professionals in future sustainable planning for their institutions. AEI’s long history of partnership with colleges and universities here provides fundamental support to a ground shift institutional response to social and economic—as well as environmental—challenges.
Educational facilities professionals play a prominent central role in implementing campus carbon footprint reduction goals, organizing inventory, tactical planning, and investment in ten strategic categories: conservation and energy efficiency; energy production and procurement; green construction and renovation; space utilization; transportation; waste reduction and recycling; procurement; food services; education and research; and, outreach and awareness. Published as a web document, the guide is a dynamic resource that will be updated continually to reflect technological advances.
See also: AEI and APPA Partnership Press Release
