1. Class Project Report Sustainable Air Quality, EECE 449/549, Spring 2008 Washington University, St. Louis, MO The Carbon Footprint of Danforth Campus and its Causality Drivers Instructors: Professor Rudolf B. Husar, Erin M. Robinson See also a 5 min screencast and more details on the class wikiscreencastclass wiki Students: Devki Desai Martin Groenewegen Tyler Nading Kate Nelson Matt Sculnick Alyssa Smith Varun Yadav

2. WU Comparison with Other Universities Martin Groenewegen Tyler Nading

3. What is in this analysis: Carbon assessments from other schools Use to make sense of WU's report Different data –Purchased electricity –Stationery sources (labs, steam generation, etc) –Transportation (University fleet, Commuting students, Commuting Faculty and Staff) –Ag Wastes –Solid Wastes

4. Colleges and Universities Carleton College Harvard Tufts University University of New Hampshire Smith College Lewis and Clark Middlebury College University of Central Florida Penn State University Park Tulane University Utah State University Oberlin College Duke University University of Pennsylvania Colby College Wellesley College Rice University University of Illinois at Chicago Penn State College of Charleston Yale University of California, Santa Barbara California State Polytechnic University University of Connecticut University of California, Berkeley Amherst College College of William and Mary UT, Knoxville Connecticut College Occidental College Colorado State University

5. Why analyze the others Determining scope of emission Finding new ways to handle a lack of data/estimations with limited details Method validation Structuring of the Wash U report

7. PE=purchased electricity Tr-UF=Transportation University Fleet Re=Refrigerants ST=Stationery sources Tr-CSF=Transportation Commuting Fac. Staff Tr-CSt=Transportation Commuting Students Tr-A=Transportation Air Ag=Agriculture Wastes SW=Solid Wastes

8. Wash U Duke

9. And the Study Shows: Wash U is average Overall correlation between size and emission Some out liars do exist Improvements Do this study for a longer period of time using interim reports Check the units Comprise more comparisons for the given student body populations

10. Analysis of Transportation Sector From Other Schools’ Inventories Purpose –Examine methodology used by other schools to account for transportation emissions –Determine trends/drivers for transportation emissions –Use findings as measuring stick for WU Methodology observed Error observed

12. Linear trend observed Variance observed and expected Duke and Penn outliers

13. Population is a definite driver of transportation emissions