campus sustainability: monitoring, assessment and reporting how else can you “see” change?
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Campus Sustainability: Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting
Campus Sustainability: Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting
How else can you “see” change?How else can you “see” change?
Objective: Annual Reporting Objective: Annual Reporting
Quality, Reliability, Accessibility Awareness, Participation, Learning,
Adaptation Planning, Prioritizing, Cooperation
Accountability !
Quality, Reliability, Accessibility Awareness, Participation, Learning,
Adaptation Planning, Prioritizing, Cooperation
Accountability !
Metric DecisionsMetric Decisions Direct vs Indirect Chain of Impacts Boundaries Spatial Scale / Resolution Time interval / frequency Resolution Composition of Aggregated Elements Normalizing
Evaluation and Interpretation Achieving Thresholds vs Trends Inter-University Comparisons Grades, Points, Stars, etc
Direct vs Indirect Chain of Impacts Boundaries Spatial Scale / Resolution Time interval / frequency Resolution Composition of Aggregated Elements Normalizing
Evaluation and Interpretation Achieving Thresholds vs Trends Inter-University Comparisons Grades, Points, Stars, etc
Data Quality: Uncertainty and Precision
Data Quality: Uncertainty and Precision
Need Meta-Data
Regional Land Footprint
MacDonald Downtown Mont-St-Hillaire / Gault Reserve
Montreal
* Field stations not included
76% Land is Natural Habitat
Land Footprint
2 4
35
59
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Downtown MolsonReserve
MacDonald Gault NatureReserve
Per
cent
age
Energy Consumption Trend(controlled for climate and space)
0
100
200
300
400
500
1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
J /
m2
/ d
egre
e d
ays
Greenhouse Gas EmissionsControlled for Climate variations
12.513.013.514.014.515.015.516.016.5
1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
Tonn
es (C
O2
eq
)/D
D
Results: Energy and GHG
2005 Greenhouse Gas Inventory
0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000
Tonnes of CO2 equivalent
Solid Waste
Campus Fleet
Agriculture
Electricity
Official Air Travel
Commuter Travel
Natural Gas
Energy and GHG (Near Future)Energy and GHG (Near Future)
Pegasus EMS 3D Visualization
Online Access !
Materials and Recycling
Recycling NumbersWaste Numbers
300 new indoor VPM bins installed17 new outdoor VPM stations installed
Expect to see Change
Materials and WasteTracking the Paper Use Policy
Materials and WasteTracking the Paper Use Policy
“See” Change?
Paper Purchasing
Materials and WasteFuture Goals
Materials and WasteFuture Goals
Concordia data
Coming Soon … McGill Forests Carbon Inventory !
(Gault Nature Reserve)
Coming Soon … McGill Forests Carbon Inventory !
(Gault Nature Reserve)
Using LiDAR Remote Sensing data
Thanks to:Thanks to:
Mrs. Kathy Zendehbad, Anna Gentile, Gabriela Pinto, Julie Chevalier, Jo-Ann Sciampacone, Kathleen Ng and Mr. Radu Juster, Stanley Glavac, Marc Dozois, Daniel Faucher, Pierre Leblanc, Alain Fournier, Michel Gauthier, Eric Champagne, Normand Lague, Claude Lahaie, Bill Pageau, Angelo Tambasco, Peter Knox and especially Mrs. and more recently Mr. Dennis Fortune.
Mrs. Kathy Zendehbad, Anna Gentile, Gabriela Pinto, Julie Chevalier, Jo-Ann Sciampacone, Kathleen Ng and Mr. Radu Juster, Stanley Glavac, Marc Dozois, Daniel Faucher, Pierre Leblanc, Alain Fournier, Michel Gauthier, Eric Champagne, Normand Lague, Claude Lahaie, Bill Pageau, Angelo Tambasco, Peter Knox and especially Mrs. and more recently Mr. Dennis Fortune.