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1. The college encouraged more students to live on campus and developed better transit options for student, staff and faculty commuters that cut single-occupancy vehicle travel by nearly 50 percent.

2. The college upgraded its natural gas boilers in the mid-1990s so that, even when campus square footage increased by 10 percent, natural gas usage actually declined.

3. Students worked proactively to inventory the college?s greenhouse gas emissions and determined that purchasing offsets was the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions in the short term.

4. Students raised $16,400 to purchase carbon offsets through the Climate Trust, a Portland-based nonprofit group that promotes climate change solutions by providing greenhouse gas offset projects and advancing offset policy.

5. The college aggressively pursued green building practices in new construction.

6. Students researched, developed and published an instruction manual for conducting inventories of college greenhouse gas emissions.

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Contact: Tania Thompson
taniat@lclark.edu
503-768-7961
Lewis & Clark College
24-Oct-2003