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<< The College recently earned a grade of A- from the Sustainable Endowments Institute in its annual College Sustainability Report Card and was included on its list of “overall college sustainability leaders.”
Perhaps more significantly, Mount Holyoke has met and exceeded its 2010 greenhouse gas reduction goal to shrink emissions and bring them back down to 1990 levels.
“This is a cause for celebration,” said Nancy E. Apple, the director of environmental health and safety for MHC and Hampshire College. Indeed, according to Five College energy manager Todd Holland, the College emitted 15,405 tons of carbon dioxide in 1990; that figure now stands at 13,867 tons. Emission levels for 2010 were nearly 10 percent lower than in 1990–and 33 percent lower than MHC’s peak in 2003.
“Not only have we reduced our emissions below the rate for 1990, we’ve accomplished this despite a 9.5 percent increase in our building footage and a substantial increase in equipment such as computers,” he noted. “Think about how much more demand that can create. We’ve been bucking that increase by being more efficient.” >>