Ursinus College: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan - 2013 Ursinus College Climate & Sustainability Action Plan Office of Sustainability K. Shannon Spencer, Campus Sustainability Planner Ursinus College is located in southeastern Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. This is its first Climate and Sustainability Action Plan. This plan is organized by administrative units on the campus in order to facilitate the implementation and accessibility of the plan to those who will ultimately be making decisions and taking actions that affect sustainability and our greenhouse gas emissions in various areas of the College. –June 2013 Ursinus College – Office of Sustainability 601 E. Main Street, Collegeville, PA 19426 610- 4 0 9 - 3000 i Acknowledgements: This plan is meant to guide the College’s steps as we work toward our long-term goal of climate neutrality. I would like to thank all of my many collaborators from offices and departments across the College who helped craft this document. Without their input and feedback, this document would be far less accurate, robust and useful. I hope that it is, and will continue to be all of those things. I would like to thank to my editors: Facilities Director Andrew Feick, Professor Richard Wallace and Professor Leah Joseph, for the many hours they spent reading, re- reading, providing comments, advising, and being a cheering section. Finally, I would like to thank President Bobby Fong for his support of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. Ursinus College: CSAP – 2013 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................................................................................... II LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT ............................................................................................................ I SECTION 7: SPECIAL USE BUILDINGS AND SPACES ...............................................................................1 SPECIAL USE BUILDINGS – CHAPTER 7.1: BAKES ATHLETICS CENTER & ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT .............................. 1 SPECIAL USE BUILDINGS– CHAPTER 7.2: BERMAN MUSEUM OF ART .................................................................. 17 SPECIAL USE BUILDINGS – CHAPTER 7.3: KALEIDOSCOPE THEATER ...................................................................... 29 WORKS CITED .................................................................................................................................. 43 APPENDICES..................................................................................................................................... 45 APPENDIX A: AMERICAN COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS’ CLIMATE COMMITMENT TEXT ................................. 45 APPENDIX B: URSINUS COLLEGE CAMPUS MAP ................................................................................................ 47 APPENDIX C: URSINUS COLLEGE SUSTAINABILITY HISTORY .................................................................................. 49 APPENDIX D: UC - SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES LIST .......................................................................................... 53 APPENDIX E: URSINUS’ ACADEMIC COURSE LISTINGS FOR SUSTAINABILITY RELATED COURSES .................................. 59 APPENDIX F: URSINUS - SUSTAINABLE OFFICE GUIDELINES ................................................................................. 64 APPENDIX G: URSINUS GREEN EVENTS GUIDELINES ........................................................................................... 67 APPENDIX H: URSINUS GREEN PURCHASING GUIDELINES ................................................................................... 70 APPENDIX I: URSINUS SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS/PROGRAMS THAT ORIGINATED IN ACADEMIC COURSES ................... 72 APPENDIX J: URSINUS SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE ............................................................................................ 74 APPENDIX K: URSINUS FACILITIES EQUIPMENT .................................................................................................. 80 APPENDIX L: URSINUS MAIN BUILDINGS LIST ................................................................................................... 84 APPENDIX M: URSINUS BUILDING LIST, BY TYPE................................................................................................ 88 APPENDIX N: URSINUS FLEET VEHICLES, OWNED AND LEASED ............................................................................ 92 APPENDIX O: ECO-DRIVING RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................. 94 APPENDIX P: URSINUS SCIENCE LABS & EQUIPMENT ......................................................................................... 95 APPENDIX Q: PFAHLER HALL SCIENCE LABS & EQUIPMENT ................................................................................. 97 APPENDIX R: THOMAS HALL SCIENCE LABS & EQUIPMENT ................................................................................. 99 APPENDIX S: SODEXO SUSTAINABILITY STUDENT PROMOTION COORDINATOR JOB DESCRIPTION ............................. 102 APPENDIX T: SAMPLE AASHE STARS CHECKLIST FOR DINING SERVICES ............................................................ 104 APPENDIX U: URSINUS ATHLETIC FACILITIES LIST ............................................................................................. 109 APPENDIX V: URSINUS GREEN AND BEAR IT TEAM GOALS ................................................................................ 111 ii Ursinus College: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan - 2013 Letter from the President i Ursinus College: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan - 2013 Section 7: Special Use Buildings and Spaces Special Use Buildings – Chapter 7.1: Bakes Athletics Center & Athletics Department Back to Table of Contents The Athletics program at Ursinus College sponsors teams in 25 sports. 508 Ursinus students (about a third of the student body) participate in our team sports. Additionally, we have over 1,000 participants in six intramural sport teams and approximately 170 participants in seven club teams. Though there is some overlap between intramural participation and varsity teams, we estimate that approximately half of the Ursinus student body participates in some form of organized sports here on campus. Athletics is an important part of the Ursinus experience; thus it is also an excellent venue for extending the message of sustainability to our student body as well as to our staff. Our program encompasses indoor and outdoor facilities. The Floy Lewis Bakes Athletics Center is a recently renovated facility. Together with the Helfferich Gymnasium and our field house, it comprises our indoor athletics facilities. Our outdoor facilities include two artificial turf fields (both include lighting and one includes an irrigation system), a baseball diamond, eight tennis courts (two of which have lighting), a softball field, and four practice fields (one of which has lights). The table below details our athletic facilities. By far the largest source of GHG emissions that is related to Athletics comes from transportation. At this point we are not tracking emissions from travel for most of the College and not at all for Athletics, making it impossible to say what the exact emissions from Athletics’- related transportation are. However, our teams travel extensively, both for local trips and for events that are further afield. For example, our 2011 football travel schedule, which included 1 Ursinus College: CSAP – 2013 1 five away games, produced approximately 159 kg of eCO2 emissions. Our football team plays fewer games than some of our teams, but it travels in three large buses and travels roughly the same number of trips as some of our teams with more games.2 Many of our teams make special trips to exhibition games and tournaments. Many of our spring athletic teams go to Florida, California, or elsewhere during spring break to train. All of these trips have CO2 emissions associated with them – a figure which will need to be added to our GHG emissions report. When we have calculated this figure, we will need to assess options for lowering and/or offsetting our emissions. See Appendix U for a list of our athletic facilities. 1 The standard metric for measuring transportation-related CO2 emissions is grams of CO2 emissions per passenger mile (g/pass-mi). The figure shown above was converted to kilograms. 2 Some of our teams play very few away games, some play more. This figure is given only as an example, not to indicate an average. 2 Ursinus College: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan - 2013 7.1 Current: Athletics The largest carbon footprint impact from athletics in Division III sports comes from travel and building usage. Travel includes both team travel and recruitment-related travel. Typically, up to 70% of a Division III athletic program’s budget goes toward travel. Building-related energy use typically accounts for the majority of energy used by the Athletics program. This represents an excellent opportunity for reducing energy consumption. The table below shows the mitigation or sustainability projects and/or initiatives that have already or currently are taking place within this administrative unit of the College. These initiatives are broken into nine areas. These areas are further delineated by type of action. Table 7.1-1: Mitigation and Sustainability Projects/Initiatives – Bakes Athletic Complex Type of Project Mitigation Project/Initiative – Bakes Athletic