College-owned rental homes beyond the campus proper are not included as they are private residences and do not represent the operational resposibility of Berea College.

CA-CP is the recommended tool for ACUPCC implementation. We also participated in an online webinar and regional climate summit to learn how to use this tool.

CA-CP Campus Carbon Calculator's default emissions coefficients for eGRID subregions (Kentucky falls under SRTV subregion and SERC Tennessee Valley region post-2006)

President Larry Shinn made a formal campus-wide announcement designating Tammy Clemons, Sustainability Coordinator, and Diane Zekind, Berea's Energy Manager, to serve as the leadership team for coordinating the necessary data collection and implementing the GHG inventory. The announcement alerted the campus community that the process would require the participation of various departments and programs and that the leadership team would immediately be contacting people to discuss the specific information to be gathered and their respective roles in providing accurate and timely responses to requests. The President closed his announcement by providing a summary and follow-up links to the ACUPCC as well as Berea's online 2-month report.

The leadership team participated in a Cool Air-Clean Planet (CA-CP) webinar as well as a regional NWF Campus Ecology climate summit of ACUPCC signatories at Warren Wilson College to learn more about the process and how to use the recommended CA-CP carbon calculator. As Berea's ACUPCC Implementation Liaison, Tammy also participated in a networking meeting with other liaisons at the AASHE conference. Diane and Tammy outlined the different categories of emissions and the likely departments/programs that would be able to supply the necessary data. Then they met with the President, Provost, and Vice President for Business and Administration to plan next steps for implementation of the GHG inventory, such as the President, Vice Presidents, and Dean writing letters or otherwise contacting the relevant individuals/departments under their purview to prepare for subsequent requests from the leadership team.

The organizational boundary was primarily limited to the campus proper with the addition of the College-owned Square adjacent to campus as well as protected forest holdings bordering the town and county. Due to the limited timeframe of the GHG inventory extension, fiscal year 2007-08 was selected as the baseline for data collection. About half of the required information for the GHG inventory was directly available to Diane as an employee within the Facilities Management department on campus. This included physical benchmark data, utilities, refrigerants, some fleet vehicles, and solid waste. Tammy coordinated the communication and collaboration with all additional campus departments/programs to collect other types of information, such as population data, agricultural data, employee data, travel reports, study abroad, paper usage, and mitigation data such as forest and compost sequestration. Through a series of email correspondence with these departments and a couple of one-on-one meetings as necessary, the leadership team helped identify the correct sources of information and clarify the type and scope of the request. Student employees in both the Sustainability Coordinator's office and Energy Manager's office assisted with data collection as possible.

Campus collaborators participated willingly and as expeditiously as possible in the process of data collection and interpretation. While some information was relatively simple to gather, other types of documentation clearly can be improved and refined not only to provide more accurate and organized information for future inventories, but also to better serve the College's overall mission and operations. The leadership team will follow-up on the GHG inventory by meeting again with the President and other key administrators to address some of the challenges of the process and by compiling and summarizing both the inventory and some of the raw data in a report to the campus community.

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A couple of campus programs own and operate vehicles independently of the campus Motor Pool fleet. The usage data for these vehicles (less than 10) is therefore not included in this year's report. These departments/programs will be identified for inclusion in the future.

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Berea College Forester John Perry worked in collaboration with Scott Shouse of the MACED Forest Opportunities Initiative (http://www.maced.org/foi/about.htm) to calculate the College's MTeCO2 offset for its 8000+ acre forest holdings. They used the 3.3 tons/acre/year estimate for Kentucky listed in the Chicago Climate Exchange (www.chicagoclimatex.com). Thus, the total offset of -27192 CO2e was calculated from the sum of the following:

Newly reforested*: 70 acres x 3.3 = 231 tons/acre/year

Existing*: 8,170 acres x 3.3 = 26,961 tons/acre/year

Compost sequestration was calculated in the CA-CP calculator based on total compost weight from the College Farm and Ecovillage.

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While the entire GHG inventory (process and compiled results) was not audited, specific pieces were reviewed by multiple individuals or departments. For example, some components of the inventory were provided, confirmed, and/or reviewed by third-party suppliers (i.e., utilities, solid waste totals, refrigerants, fleet fuel). Some components were reviewed in-house by campus colleagues with relevant expertise (i.e., paper purchases, compost, benchmark data).