{"id":2389,"date":"2007-03-14T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2007\/03\/14\/sustainability-on-campus-aashe-releases-digest-2006\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T00:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T00:36:00","slug":"sustainability-on-campus-aashe-releases-digest-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/sustainability-on-campus-aashe-releases-digest-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability on Campus: AASHE Releases Digest 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_7ckpSn7_q1c\/RfdLPn8L1_I\/AAAAAAAAAC4\/8yQ_-SzWpDg\/s1600-h\/aashedigest2006.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_7ckpSn7_q1c\/RfdLPn8L1_I\/AAAAAAAAAC4\/8yQ_-SzWpDg\/s400\/aashedigest2006.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>As regular readers know, I left higher education professionally (well, mostly), but still try to keep a close eye on what&#8217;s happening at <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/arizona-state-to-launch-new-school-of.html\">campuses<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/unh-considering-landfill-gas-pipeline.html\">around<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/nyu-makes-huge-purchase-of-wind-power.html\">country<\/a> in terms of sustainable development. I&#8217;m in heaven now, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aashe.org\/\">Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)<\/a>  has released its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aashe.org\/resources\/pdf\/AASHEdigest2006.pdf\">AASHE Digest 2006: A Review of Campus Sustainability<\/a> (in PDF). The digest is a compilation of all of the campus sustainability stories that appeared in the AASHE Bulletin during 2006, and provides a good look at the trends for the year.  According to the &#8220;2006 in Review&#8221; section, last year was a watershed.  Among the findings of the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;From Slippery Rock University to the University of Texas at Austin, there are more than 175 four-year schools mentioned in the 2006 Digest that were not in last year\u2019s Digest.&#8221; Given the close eye that AASHE keeps on such developments, that likely means that 175 schools are implementing sustainability initiatives that weren&#8217;t in &#8217;05.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In 2005, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenoptions.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/concrete_jungle_getting_greener\">LEED<\/a> Silver certification was the standard (80% of certified campus buildings). In 2006, LEED Gold has replaced Silver as the standard. Twelve of the eighteen campus buildings certified were rated Gold.&#8221; So, not only is green building taking off on college campuses, but schools are making sure new buildings are even greener than those built in previous years.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/greenpower\/partners\/top10ed.htm\">EPA\u2019s list of the Top 10 green power purchasers in higher education<\/a> saw a lot of jostling in 2006 as campuses upped their purchases (many to 100% of their campus\u2019 usage). The combined green power purchases of the Top 10 purchasers tripled in 2006 to an amount equivalent to the annual usage of 51,000 average American homes.&#8221;  This is in addition to an explosion of on-campus renewable energy production, which &#8220;exploded&#8221; in &#8217;06.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just a handful of the milestones the Digest notes for last year.  And, the pace continuing: according to AASHE&#8217;s Executive Director Tom Kimmerer, &#8220;If the first two months of 2007 are any indication, we are heading for another vigorous year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Digest is categorized by specific impact areas, such as &#8220;Green Building,&#8221; &#8220;Food and Agriculture,&#8221; and &#8220;Transportation.&#8221;  The PDF format makes it easily searchable, so you can find out how your alma mater did last year.  I did that myself; unfortunately, the schools I&#8217;ve attended or taught at didn&#8217;t make the Bulletin last year.  That doesn&#8217;t mean that they&#8217;re not implementing sustainability at some level, but, rather, they weren&#8217;t doing anything last year, or they did, and AASHE didn&#8217;t cover it (which I think is pretty unlikely).<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of your own school&#8217;s efforts (or lack thereof), the bigger trends are looking very promising.  And that&#8217;s good news, as it means more students are graduating with a clearer sense of their impact on the natural world, and what they can do to lighten it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, as always, to Julian Dautremont-Smith of AASHE for passing along the news.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/colleges\" rel=\"tag\">colleges<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/universities\" rel=\"tag\">universities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/sustainability\" rel=\"tag\">sustainability<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/green\" rel=\"tag\">green<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/aashe\" rel=\"tag\">aashe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/us\" rel=\"tag\">us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers know, I left higher education professionally (well, mostly), but still try to keep a close eye on what&#8217;s happening at campuses around the country in terms of&nbsp;[ &hellip; 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